A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



Of the twelve British Chrysopaty all but C. abbrevlata have been observed by me here ; the large 

 C. vlttata was flying in Bentley Woods in June ; C . Jlava, flavtfrons, tenella, septempunctata^ and the 

 widely distributed C. phyllochroma are all attracted to electric light in Ipswich ; C. alba was taken 

 about Lowestoft ; C.prasina and C. ventralis in Bentley Woods (Mr. Gimingham has also found the 

 latter recently at Dunwich) ; C. vulgaris and C. perla are generally distributed, the former often 

 occurring on reeds in salt-marshes. The pretty scorpion-flies Panorpa communis and P. germanica are 

 very widely spread ; and the rarer P. cognata occurs in Barnby Broad in July. I have once or 

 twice noted Coniopteryx psociformis in the Bentley Woods in July ; C. lactta at Brandon, Foxhall, 

 and Freston in Jime, and C. aUyrodiformis on elms and sallows at Wherstead and Foxhall. 



The water flies, caddis worms, or Trichoptera, are the only section of the Neuroptera, with 

 the exception of the Plannipennia, which undergoes complete transformations, and is consequently 

 known as holometabolic. The large and handsome Phryganea grandis, which I have bred from its 

 larva at Ipswich, is not infrequent ; P. striata has turned up in my house at Monk Soham in May ; 

 and Mr. A. Gibbs has taken several P. varia at sugar in the marshes at Orford. Neuronia ruficrus 

 and Agrypnia Pagetana (which Curtis named after our Yarmouth observer) are uncommon ; I have 

 taken the latter once or twice in the broads about Lowestoft, and Winter says that a fine specimen 

 was captured by the River Waveney, near Beccles, in i860. Colpotaulius incisus is common, and 

 GrammotauHus atomarius with Glyphotaelius pellucidus not rare. We have most of the extensive 

 genus Limnophilus in Suffolk ; L. rhombicus, marmoratus, lunatus, politus, affinis, and sparsus are all 

 common and widely distributed. L. nigriceps once occurred to me not uncommonly on the banks of 

 the Gipping near Ipswich in October.' Mr. MacLachlan tells us L. borealis once turned up in 

 some abundance in the Suffolk Broads.^" L. auricula has been found at Beccles, Brandon, and Tud- 

 denham ; L. flavicornis and L. centralis in my garden at Monk Soham ; and L. extricatus once in 

 July at Ipswich. L. hirsutus is probably abundant in the broads in June ; I have taken it at Milden- 

 hall ; L. fuscicomis is not uncommon on sugar, and Anabolia nervosa often a perfect pest. Phacopteryx 

 flew into light at Monk Soham House in September 1906. Stenophylax permistus, sequax (also taken 

 at Monk Soham), and stellatus rarely put in an appearance about Ipswich, where, at electric light, on 

 23 April 1895, I caught the only British specimen of Mesophylax aspersus}^ Halesus radiatus and 

 Chaetopteryx villosa are quite common ; but Sericostoma personatum has only occurred to me at Farn- 

 ham, on the banks of the Aide, and on those of Belstead Brook at Wherstead. Notidobia ciliaris a.nd 

 GSera pilosa are widely distributed, though I have taken but one Lepidostoma hirtum near Ipswich in 

 July, in which month Agrayka multipunctata has been attracted to artificial light at Southwold. 

 Winter records Hydroptila pulchricornis from Aldeby, and I have found H. wj/a/zV abundantly on reeds 

 at Brandon and Claydon Bridge. 



Of the Leptoceridae, Molanna angustata is common and, with Leptocerus fiilvus, senilis, cinereus, 

 and aterrimus, may be seen flying low on the surface of the Gipping and Little Ouse. I have observed 

 Triaenodes bicolor at Oulton Broad and Walberswick ; and T. conspersa has been attracted to electric 

 light in the middle of Ipswich. The pretty little Mystacides nigra and azurea are not rare at Brandon 

 and Ipswich ; I took M. longicornis in Beccles in September 1907, and I have since confirmed what 

 MacLachlan thought^ was probably a mangled Oecetis lacustris a.t Blakenham, while Adicella reducta 

 has turned up in June at Tuddenham Fen, and Setodes tineiformis in August in Barnby Broad. 

 Hydropsyche angustipennis and H, guttata are probably common, Tinodes waeneri being abundant 

 everywhere from Brandon to the Gipping. Lype phaeopa has occurred by sweeping at Belstead and 

 on the banks of the Little Ouse and of the Gipping ; and Plectrocnemia conspersa occasionally flies to 

 sugar in Ipswich, Tuddenham Fen, and Bentley Woods. I have only seen Polycentropus fiavomacu- 

 latus at Nayland, Icklingham, and Brandon, though Holocentropus picicomis seems to have a wide 

 range about Bramford, Barnby Broad, Southwold, and Lowestoft. Towards the end of April 1897 

 I was so fortunate as to make the third British capture of H. stagnalis, . Alb., in the Bramford 

 marshes ; " there was no sign of it in the same locality at the beginning of May 1898 ; but on 

 the 9th of that month in 1899 it swarmed upon the water-weeds of one particular pond there, and 

 I captured a fine series. Of the rest, Cyrnus trimaculatus is not uncommon from Ipswich to Blaken- 

 ham, often upon Scrophularia ; Agapetus fuscipes and Berea pullata are found at Foxhall, though the 

 former appears to be uncommon there ; and in July 1903 I swept B. maurus in Tuddenham Fen. 



From the above accoimt of the Neuroptera, in the broadest sense of the term, which have been 

 actually observed in Suffolk, it is evident that there are but 164 species, including Hydroptila pulchri- 

 cornis, which Winter records as having been abundant on the railway bridge across the Waveney, 

 near Aldeby, which connects this county with Norfolk. This is indeed a small total for our well- 

 watered county, when we consider that nearly 450 kinds have been found in Britain. 



' Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1898, p. zi. '" Trans. Ent. Soc. 1865, p. 39. 



" CLEnt. Mo. Mag. Nov. 1895. " Ibid. 1897, p. 266. " Ibid. 1897, p. 280. 



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