INSECTS 



even where they exist in numbers. Several kinds were observed about Yarmouth by the Pagets ; 

 and a few on the coast by the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield and Mr. E. Saunders, but there are no 

 notable records of them in periodical literature. 



The little earwig, Labia minor, is of general distribution, and is not uncommonly found singly, 

 flying in the sunshine in June, July, and September, as well as upon the damp mud at the margins of 

 ponds, at Bentley, Claydon Bridge, Walton, Wickham Market, Framlingham, Tuddenham Fen, and, 

 Paget says, about Yarmouth.' Our only other earwig is the \xh\(\\x\toviS Forficula auricularia,-vf\\\ch 

 I have frequently seen flying to the light of street lamps, beneath which, if one did but look, they 

 often congregate in great numbers ; by day they hide away beneath stones, &c., but may occasion- 

 ally be seen assimilating the nectar from Angelica and ragwort flowers ; and upon one occasion my 

 hand received quite a sharp pinch from the forceps, usually supposed only capable of folding away 

 the wings. I have noticed the \zx\^ty forcipata, Steph., on nettles at Belstead ; and Paget mentions 

 its occurrence on the Yarmouth sandhills. Only two of the four smaller cockroaches have been 

 noticed, of which the first, Phyllodromia germanica, has established a footing in Ipswich houses ; the 

 latter is Ectobia Panzeri, and is common upon the coast sandhills among the marram grass from Felix- 

 stowe to Gorton ; Saunders found it at Lowestoft in August, and the larvae are equally common in 

 June and July. In the Hope Museum at Oxford there is one specimen of this species labelled 

 ' Rev. W. Kirby, lapponica,' which was very likely taken in Suffolk nearly a century ago.^ Paget 

 says the common or household cockroach, Blatta orienta/is, was to be found in most Yarmouth 

 houses in 1834, and it is doubtless only too common throughout the county, though it would be 

 interesting to know if this imported species has yet penetrated to the more rural districts ; we have 

 none at Monk Soham. In June 1894 I took a male which appeared to have been attracted by, and 

 was crawling beneath, an electric light in the middle of Ipswich. B. Australasiae is not infrequently 

 imported in linseed, &c., from abroad. 



Among the grasshoppers, Mecoitethus gmssus has been found in several Norfolk localities, and 

 appears to be the species referred to by Paget under the name Locusta flavipes, which he says was 

 common in Helton Bog, Suffolk. All the Stenobothri, except S. Uneatus, have been observed here ; 

 S. viridulus is not uncommon in marshy spots about Beccles, Barnby Broad, Southwold, and Tudden- 

 ham Fen. Some doubt must be entertained regarding the record of S. rufipes, which I took at 

 Beccles in 1892, but am now unable to remember upon which side of the Waveney. Bloomfield 

 has found S. elegam in July at Southwold ; it has occurred to me in Tuddenham Fen, and not 

 uncommonly in the marshes at Burgh Castle in August. 5. bicolor and 5. parallelm are abundant 

 everywhere ; one day my attention was called to two males of the former which were apparently 

 courting a single female at Foxhall by the unusually dull note they were both emitting ; and on 

 another occasion at Southwold I found an example on a first-story window, which was a curious 

 circumstance in so low-flying a species. Of Gomphocerus I have only noticed the common 

 G. maculatus, which is widely distributed about Foxhall, Corton sandhills, Southwold, and on the 

 Breck sands at Lakenheath and Brandon. The remainder of the short-horned grasshoppers, with 

 two exceptions, cannot be termed indigenous since they are but casual visitants. Both these excep- 

 tions are members of the genus Tettix ; T. bipunctatus, which appears to be the Acridium bipumtatum, 

 taken commonly about Yarmouth by Paget, is an extremely abundant kind and, unlike most Acri- 

 diodea, hibernates in the perfect state, the larvae being found in August. T. subu/atus is very local 

 in Suffolk, where I have met with it only among the dwarf sallows in the Poor Fen at Tuddenham 

 in June. 



Of the long-horned grasshoppers, Leptophyes punctatisiima is generally distributed ; it sometimes 

 occurs upon ' sugar ' in the Bentley Woods, and has been observed at Felixstowe, Bramford, Assing- 

 ton, Farnham, Dennington, and Monk Soham. The pretty green Mecomma varium is not rare on 

 oaks and frequently visits sugared trees at Ipswich, Bentley Woods, and Tostock, but is rarely seen 

 in its earlier stages. Throughout the fen and broads districts the lovely chocolate and green 

 Xiphidium dorsale is to be swept from reeds : I first saw it not uncommonly in Barnby and Benacre 

 Broads in August, occasionally upon the flowers of Angelica, and it has subsequently turned up in 

 Tuddenham Fen and the salt marshes about Southwold ; it does not appear to obtain maturity till 

 the end of July, and is quite possibly the Acrida aptera which Paget records as common in damp 

 places in Lound Wood in September. The great green Locusta viridissima is occasionally not 

 uncommon on the banks of the Gipping at Sproughton ; and in the same neighbourhood I have 

 found it licking the stylopods of Angelica sylvestris at Claydon in September ; Mr. Tuck has taken it 

 at Bury St. Edmunds, Mr. Maynard at Orford, and there are specimens in Wheel's collection from 

 Assington. Thamnotrizon cinereus is mainly nocturnal in its habits, and is very frequently attracted 

 by 'sugar' in the Bentley Woods ; it has also occurred at Bungay and Wherstead. Among the 



' It was flying in great numbers in my garden at Monk Soham on i May 1908. 

 ' Cf. E>!t. Rec. 1900, p. 98. 



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