INSECTS 



fifty British species only eighteen have been observed, amongst which L. notula occurs on reeds in 

 Oulton Broad, L. lineola in Dodnash Woods, and on the banks of the Orwell, L. longipennh in tufts 

 of Carex pankulata at Foxhall in the winter ; L. vitttpennis is abundant in Tuddenham Fen, where 

 Elliott has taken L. fuscovittata in some numbers ; and L. punctulum with L. pelludda and L. scotti 

 about Lowestoft, where it was found by Butler, as well as at Claydon Bridge and Foxhall. 

 Mr. Edwards tells us' that L., or Chloriona, glaucescens, Fieb. — formerly thought to be C. unicolor, 

 H. S. — has been found by him commonly on reeds in the coast marshes at Southwold in August. 

 L. leptosoma and L. limbata are common, and L. eUgantula local at Foxhall, Kentford, and Tudden- 

 ham ; but L. speciosa, which does not appear to have been taken in Britain for many years, has been 

 but sparingly met with by Mr. Elliott and myself in marshes at Ipswich, Barton Mills, Brandon 

 and Tuddenham Fen. The remaining species are Liburnia difficUis^ discolor, exigua, Fairmairei, and 

 lineata, whose distribution is not yet fully known. 



Of the rest of the Delphacidae, I have seen Dicranotropus hamata from Foxhall to Tuddenham, 

 and Stiroma pteridis common on bracken, P. albomarginata at Bentley and Tuddenham, P. affinh 

 once swept at Freston in 1904. The extremely handsome Triecphora vulnerata is by no means 

 uncommon upon young poplars and flying in the sunshine in the Bentley Woods, Assington Thicks, 

 and Holbrook Park in June ; both species of Aphrophora live about Ipswich and Bury ; and all the 

 British Philaeni, or ' Cuckoo-spits,' are common, though P. lineatus appears somewhat local, and 

 several forms of P. spumarius have not been met with. Ledra aurita is uncommon on oaks in the 

 Bentley Woods, at Tostock and Battisford ; Ulopa reticulata often swarms beneath heather ; and 

 Megophthalmus scanicus is very common. Among the pretty family Bythoscopidae, we have a much 

 better percentage of representatives. Afacropsis lanio is often beaten from oak trees ; Bythoscopus 

 atni rarely met with on the banks of the Gipping and in Bentley Woods, where as elsewhere 

 B. flavicollis abounds ; the rare B. rufusculus has occurred singly in Tuddenham Fen and the Bentley 

 Woods in 1904. Pediopsis scutellatus, P. tibialis, P. impurus, and P. ulmi all occur with fair fre- 

 quency, and last year I discovered P. cereus in Tuddenham Fen and P. fuscinervis at Foxhall, both 

 in August ; C. virescens, too, has lately turned up at Tostock, Kentford, and Barham. Idiocerus 

 adustus, I. populi and /. confusus are not infrequent upon poplars and willows ; an example from 

 Farnham appears referable to I.fulgidus ; and I have also recently found here /. lituratus in Tud- 

 denham Fen and /. distinguer.dus in Assington Thicks, which latter Mr. Tuck took at Aldeburgh ;* 

 /. albicans is local at Freston, Tuddenham, and Brandon, and a single /. tremulae has occurred in 

 Bentley Woods. Agallia puncticeps and A. venosa both occur, the latter being widely distributed at 

 Claydon, Southwold, and Brandon. Evacanthus interruptus, upon ragwort, and E. acuminatus are 

 both found in the Bramford chalk pits ; and Tettigonia viridis is often a pest in marshes throughout 

 the county. We possess all the British Acoctphali, the only uncommon one being A. flavostriatus, 

 which Butler has turned up in Fritton Decoy and I have seen at Kessingland. Eupelix cuspidata 

 has only been noticed on the Breck sands and Foxhall Plateau ; but Doratura stylata and Paramesus 

 nervosus, of the former of which I captured a specimen of the macropterous form at Ipswich in 

 1896, are common. I also beat a single Glyptocephalus proceps at Barren Heath near Ipswich in 

 July 1904. 



The Jassidae leave much to be desired ; the only common Athysani being A. hrevipennis, 

 communis, sordidus, obsoletus, and obscurellus ; Butler has found A. grisescens at Lowestoft. Twelve 

 kinds of Deltocephalus are enumerated, of which five — D. pascuellus, coronifer, distinguendus, sabulicola, 

 and punctum — were first taken by Butler about Lowestoft ; Edwards records D. Normani from 

 Fritton, and I have seen D. argus in the Westleton lamb-pits and at Foxhall, where D. citrinellus, 

 ocellaris, and striatus also occur. D. Flori and D. pulicaris appear to be rare at Freston.' Allygus 

 mixtus, Limotettix antennata, and L. quadrinotata are common, as also probably is L. sulphurella, 

 though I had not met with it till last August, when the rare L. aurantipes occurred to me at 

 Foxhall and Bramford marshes. Of our six species of Thamnotettix, Tuck met with T. splendidula 

 at Tostock in October 1899 ; and I beat a couple of T. Torneella from birch in the Bentley Woods 

 in May and June 1902, from bushes through which I have beaten with no sign of this insect for 

 ten consecutive years ; it is rare in Britain, but has a wide range from Rannoch to the New Forest. 

 T. attenuata first turned up, and then commonly, at Foxhall late in September 1 904. Edwards 

 has found the rare Cicadula jasciifrons at Southwold; and I have once or twice met with C. sep- 

 temnotata, which is much rarer here than C. sexnotata ; Gnathodes punctatus is local at Bentley Woods 

 and Foxhall. Alebra albostriella has been observed, and, in Tuddenham Fen, in June 1901, I 

 took three examples of an allied insect, which was common there on birch, though apparently 

 hitherto unrecognized in Britain. Dicraneura variata is abundant and D. flavipennis common. The 



' Ent. Mo. Mag. 1898, p. 60. ' Cf. Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc. 1902, p. 332. 



' Since the above was written I have been so tortunate as to capture somewhat commonly Deltocephalus 

 formosus, a species not hitherto noticed jn Britain, in a marshy wood at Brandon, on the banks of the Little 

 Ouse, which forms the north-west boundary of the county (Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1908, p. 59). — C. M. 



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