86 t^pni' 



The more noticeable Tortrices ai'e Tortrix diver.sana, Hb., one only ; T. cos- 

 tana, F., in the marshes, and also bred from larvae feeding on the seed pods of the 

 Yellow Flag (Iris) and Phtheochroa rugosana, Hb., all at Hemley ; Sericoris litto- 

 rails, Curt., Shingle Street, in fair numbers. Orthotxriia antiquana, lib., Hemley 

 and Bungay; Phoxopteryx uiicana, Hb., OraphuUtha nigromaculana, Haw., Stig- 

 monofa luiernana, Grn., Dicrorampha simpliciana, Hw., Eupaecilia atricapitana, 

 Stn., E. geyeriana, H.-S., E. notulana, Zell., * E. roseana, Haw , and E. degreyana^ 

 McL., all at Bungay in the moth trap, and Conchylis smeathmanniana, ¥., at 

 Hemley. 



The TiNE^ are fairly well represented : Epichnopteryx radiella, Curt., Oulton 

 Broad ; E. reticeLla, Newm., Easton Broad and Hemley ; Adeta ^rvfimitrella, 

 Scop., Barnby Broad, all in May ; Syponomeuta vigintipunctata, Retz., Orthotelia 

 sparganella, Thnb., Depressaria contennineUa, Zell., and D. albipunctella, Hb., at 

 Bungay ; Gelechia *cuneatella, Zell., and G. {Recurvaria) naiiella, Hb., at Beccles ; 

 O. {Teleia) notatella, Hb., and Argyresthia ephippella, F., at Bungay : (Ecophora 

 lunaris, Haw.; Argyresthia *sphiiella, Zell.; A. conjugella, Zell.; A. curvella, 

 Ornix *torquiltella, Zell., and betidse, Stn., at Beccles ; Coleophora *therinella, 

 Tgstr., at Beccles; C. *adjunctella, Hodgk., Aldborough, in May, 1904; and 

 Laverna ochraceella, Curt., Ipswich, 1904 Claude Morley ; Elachista *alhifron- 

 tella, Hb., and atricomella, Stn., Beccles. 



Guestling Rectory : 



Eebruary, 1906. 



An apparatus for collecting small Arthropods.— In the " Entomological News " 

 for February, 1906, Prof. L. O. Howard, the American Grovernment Entomologist, 

 gives an interesting account of an apparatus used by Prof. Antonio Berlese (who 

 has also described it himself in Vol. II of the " Redia "), of Florence, for collecting 

 small insects, Chelifers, Arachnids, &c., in large numbers from decaying leaves, 

 manure, moss, bark, &o., brought home for examination. The method followed is 

 to place this material upon a wire sieve fixed near the upper end of a large metal 

 funnel, the apex of which is connected by a piece of rubber tubing with a small 

 tube or bottle containing alcohol. The funnel is passed through a vessel containing 

 water, and the water heated to 60° C. at least by a lamp, the heat drawing all the 

 living creatures downwards into the funnel, from the sides of which they fall into 

 the small bottle of alcohol at the bottom. Prof. Howard adds an illustration of 

 the Berlese apparatus for direct heating, and of another for indirect heating, both 

 of which he has tried with success. These methods of the learned Italian and 

 American Entomologists remind me of a much simpler one used many years ago by 

 the late R. Lawson, of Scarborough, who obtained enormous numbers of many rare 

 species from the siftings of flood -refuse from the mountain streams of his own 

 neighbourhood, as well as fx-om haystack rubbish, &c. Lawson used a long, conical 

 or balloon-shaped, suspended canvas bag, placing the stuff to be operated on 

 on a sieve near the top, and fixin/ a tube or bottle, with or without alcohol, at the 

 bottom outlet. Instead, however, of heating the sides of the funnel-shaped bag, 



The species marked thus * are new to the Suffolk List. 



