INSECTS 



Bungay. Syrlta pipitns is abundant ; Eumerus sahulonum was captured by PifFard near Landguard 

 Fort andi'. strigatus is not very uncommon. Chrysotoxum sylvarum, C. bicinctum, and C.festivum are 

 common ; I have found C. elegans at Southwold, and Tuck has bred C. octomaculatum at Tostock in 

 1896 and 1897. Paget records Sericomyia horealis as occasionally common at Lound Heath, though 

 not now met with for many years, and I took the fine Criorrhina asi/ica in Bentley Woods in 1904. 



The interesting family Conopidae is well represented in Suffolk. Of the typical genus Conops, 

 C. flavipei, (luadrifasciatOy and ceriiformis are not uncommon, and Tuck has bred the variety vitellinus 

 at Tostock. Physocephala rufipes and Oncomyia atra are also ubiquitous, but 0. pusilla and Zodion 

 cinereum are very rarely met with, the former at Dodnash Woods and about Bury, the latter once 

 only at Foxhall in August, and once at Brandon in June. Sicus ferruginem is often seen on ragwort 

 flowers in the autumn ; Myopa buccata is recorded hence by Curtis, and more recently from the 

 Bury district, &c. ; M. testacea was bred at Tostock by Tuck in May 1898, and M. fasciata, 

 which I have captured at Foxhall, was found at Ipswich by Freeman about 1887. Among the 

 bot-flies, the Oestridae, we can only positively claim two species, though Hypodermae are sure to 

 occur ; these are Gastrop^i/us equ't, of which Mr. Tuck took several specimens at Tostock in August 

 1898, and others at Bungay in July; and Oestrus ovis, the sheep-fly, which he also found in the 

 former village in July. Many of our parasitic flies of the family Tachinidae have not yet been 

 determined, but we may mention Meigenia egens from flowers near Ipswich, Ceromasia machairopsis 

 about Ipswich, C. sordidisquama and C. juvenilis common in Bentley Woods in May, C. senilis from 

 Felixstowe, by PifFard (in the British Museum), and Dodnash Woods, C. stabulans about Ipswich and 

 Lowestoft, and C. spectabilis on birch in Assington Thicks in June. Exorista vetula is found at 

 Assington and Bentley, E. fimbriata and E. apicalrigria occur here (the latter being in the British 

 Museum), E. perturbans is common on oak-trunks ; Mr. Ransom has bred E. jucunda at Sudbury 

 from Liparis salicis, and Tuck found E. notabilis at Aldeburgh. Epicampocera succincta is common at 

 Little Blakenham ; I have Blepharidea vulgaris bred from Pieris rapae and Abraxas grossulariata ; 

 Myxexorista fauna has been captured in the Bentley Woods, where Bothria caesifrons and Phorocera 

 serriventris are not rare; Blepharipoda atropivora has been noticed at Bramford, and Sisyropa hortulana 

 in Bentley Woods ; 5. lucorum I have bred from lepidopterous pupae at Ipswich in July. Chaetolyga 

 amoena occurs about Bury St. Edmunds, Tachina grandis in the Bentley Woods, T. erucarum at 

 Felixstowe, and T. rustica with T. agilis about Ipswich ; Gonia divisa was captured in 1894, and at 

 Foxhall in May I have taken G. ornata with G. lateralis. Monochaeta leucophaea and Thelymorpha 

 vertigosa are rare about Ipswich ; Aporomyta dubia is abundant in the Bentley Woods ; Somohia 

 rebaptizata widely distributed, and Pelatachina tibialis once occurred to me at Mildenhall in June. 

 In the Bentley Woods Maccjuartia grisea, Degeeria medorina, Demoticus Plebejus and D. frontatus, 

 Myiobia pacifica, Micropalpus pudicus (with the type of Meade's Nemoraea quadraticornis), all occur with 

 more or less frequency. Ptilops chalybeata has turned up at Bramford, Anthracomyia nana at Hens- 

 stead and Tostock, Micropalpus pictus at Claydon Bridge, M. vulpinus is certainly uncommon at 

 Felixstowe and Tostock, but Thelaira leucozona and Erigone radicum are common enough. Tuck 

 has taken E. rudis about Bury, and I have found E. vivida near Ipswich ; Echinomyia grossa has 

 occurred to me at Barton Mills, and E. fera to Hocking at Copdock ; Plagia ruralis occurs in the 

 Bentley Woods and P. trepida at Assington. PifFard says Phorichaeta carbonarius was abundant at 

 Felixstowe in 1896, and presented it to the British Museum ; Discochaeta muscaria is rare at Assing- 

 ton, but Roeselia antiqua is generally distributed, as also are Digonochaeta spinipennis and D. setipennis, 

 Thryptocera crassicornis and T. bicolor, with the two Siphonae, have been noted. Early in 1897 I 

 took what Dr. Meade said was Exorista [Blepharomyia) ampUcornis on oak-trunks in the Bentley 

 Woods, and with it occurred what he considered a new species and named Phorocera incerta, a co- 

 type of which is in the British Museum ; ' these Verrall synonymizes. I was also so fortunate as 

 to add Phasia Rothi {Xysta cand) to the British list,*" having found it in the vicinity of Ipswich, 

 where Alophora pusilla is sparingly met with. Few of the remaining sections of the Tachinidae, 

 the Trixinae, Sarcophaginae, and the Dexinae, require particular mention ; in the first we have 

 twelve species, including Trixa oestroidea^^ Tryphaera umbrinervis, and Dialyta atriceps ; in the 

 second fourteen species, several of the typical genus Sarcophaga and the fine northern fly Cynomyia 

 mortuorum from Orford and Tuddenham, the bee-parasite called Miltogramma punctatum, Hereronychia 

 chaetoneura, and the interesting little Sphixapata conica from Bramford and Felixstowe ; in the last 

 only four species, of which Dexiosoma caninum is found sitting commonly on bracken with, rarely, 

 Dexia rustica in the Bentley Woods, and D. vacua at Worlington, and Prosena sybarita on the Breck 

 sands, taken by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, in August. 



Of the ubiquitous Muscidae, we have found all the Stomoxys, Pollenia, Myiospila, Musca, 

 Morellia, Mesembrina, Pyrellia excepting P. cyanicolor^ ProtocalUphora, Calliphora, and Euphora ; 



»Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1897, p. 223 ; 1898, p. 35. " Ibid. 1896, p. 212 ; 1898, p. 39. 



" Cf. Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc. 1901, p. 157. 



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