A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



Additions, i 899-1 907 {continued) 



Cassida vittata, Vill. Grass-tufts ; Bentley Woods and 

 East Bergholt 



Blaps Gages, Linn. The only British specimen at 

 Bury (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1903, p. 174) 



Tribolium confusum. In vast numbers in a flour- 

 mill in Loa-estoft 



Mycetochares bipustulata. Staverton Thicks in June, 

 one only 



Latheticus oryzae. Abundant in the Lotvestofi flour- 

 mill in Aug. 



Anthicus instabilis. On Chenopodium, both sexes, 

 at FeUxs:o'xe 



Rhynchites interpunctatus; On sallow in Bentley 

 Woods in May 



Apion ononidis. On Ononis spinosa in Blakenham 

 chalk pits 



— dissimile. Swept from trefoil, Bentley Woods (cf 



Ent. Rec. 1900, p. 78) 



— sanguineum. Once said to have occurred at 



Brandon (cf Ent. Mo. Mag. 1904, p. 87) 

 Otiorhynchus raucus. On Felixstowe cliffs in June 

 Trachyphloeus spinimanus. Sparingly at Toxhall and 



Tuddenham 

 Phyllobius viridicollis. Common in June at Brandon; 



tuddenham 

 Limobius mixtus. Captured at Brandon in early June 

 Hypera suspiciosa. One female at Oulton Broad in 



Mar. 



— trilineata. Singly in Bramford marsh and Shrub- 



land Park 

 Orchestes dccoratus. Swept from dwarf sallow in 



Tuddenham Fen, Aug. 1905 

 Liparis coronatus. Bramford Road, Ipstvich ; probably 



imported with chalk 

 Erirrhinus scirpi. One in reed refuse at Benacre 



Broad in Sept. 



Bagous nodulosus. In dykes at Beccles in June and 

 Aug. 



Tychius tibialis. Found at roots of ragwort at Bran- 

 don in June 



Sibinia potentillae. One found on the Corton clifls 

 in Aug. 



Gymnetron collinus. Brandon, one in June 1903 



Ceuthorhynchus ericae. Hollesley Heath and Tudden- 

 ham Fen, local 



— euphorbiae. At Brandon and Glemsford in June 

 Ceuthorhynchideus Dawsoni. Once in June at 



Brandon 



— horridus. In a chalk pit at Brandon, very rare 



— mixtus. One swept at Wherstead (cf Ent. Mo. 



Mag. 1900, p. 287) 



— posthumus. Singly at Mildenhall and Foxhall 



Plateau 



Litodactylus leucogaster. Apparently rare ; Oulton 

 Broad and Southtvold 



Balaninus rubidus. Brandon, and not uncommon in 

 Tuddenham Fen 



Codiosoma spadix. One ' on coasts of Suffolk ' in 

 Capron's collection ; and at Southzvold, by my- 

 self 



Bruchus affinis. On Angelica at Claydon Bridge in 

 Aug. 



— pectinicornis. One female on Angelica flower at 



Foxhall in Aug. 

 Megacronus cingulatus. Beaten from a birch bush in 



Tuddenham Fen early in May 1907 

 Quedius obliteratus. Wherstead, Ipswich, Bury, and 



Westleton 



— vexans. Taken by Prof. Beare in moles' nests at 



Ipswich in the spring 

 Oxypoda longipes. Also found in moles' nests at 

 Ipswich by Prof Beare 



These additions go to show how inuch there yet is to be done in the local kinds, and how very 

 far we still are from the perfect knowledge or catalogue of them, in spite of our 1,930 species; 

 though, in the compilation of this extensive list, we have had the advantage of visits from nearly all 

 the best British coleopterists. 



LEPIDOPTERA 



Butterflies and Moths 



The handsome butterflies and moths have always come in for the lion's share of attention 

 among insects, and Suffolk has not been behind the majority of counties in the investigation of her 

 indigenous species ; so much so has this been the case that of late years local collectors have been to 

 a great extent relieved of the pressure of their study, which circumstance probably accounts for the 

 comparatively full catalogues of the more neglected orders of insects which the few resident collectors 

 have been enabled to compile. The first list issued by the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield was dated 1888, 

 when, during the compilation of a county catalogue, he found a very much greater mass of in- 

 formation respecting the Macro- than the Micro-Lepidoptera, and was induced to bring out a 

 preparatory account of the latter in order that it might be augmented to something approaching the 

 perfection to which the former had already attained. The result is seen in the very full Lepidoptera 

 of Suffolk \\c published in 1890, and supplemented in 1900, mainly from the 'records of Canon 

 Cruttwell, Revs. J- H. Hocking and A. P. Waller, Messrs. Claude Morley, E. Baylis, and the late 

 C. A. Pyett. The Victoria County lists of Lepidoptera have often run to such length that only a 

 general outline of those of Suffolk will be given, with especial reference to such species as are 

 peculiar to, or especially prevalent in, the county or generally rare. 



Considering the proximity of Suffolk to both Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, it is curious that 

 the Swallow-tail butterfly {Papilto Machaon) is so rare with us as to leave considerable doubt whether 

 it ever breeds here at all ; it is said that years ago it used to be constantly and consistently found ia 



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