INSECTS 



which numbers may be taken to very fairly represent the fauna of the county, though especial 

 attention to these groups would doubtless reveal many more ; and indeed I am already able to 

 add:— 



Asopus punctatus. Beaten from rose, Tuddenham Fen, 



Aug. 1905, by E. A. Elliott, F.Z.S. 

 Sehirus morio Found in sand at Brandon, May and 



June, by A. J. Chitty, M.A., and myself 

 Gerris argentata. Oulton and Bantby Broads, early 



Apr. 1903, by E. C. Bedwell, F.E.S 

 Phytocoris Reuteri. I beat one from white poplar at 



Brandon, in Aug. 1906 

 Systellonotus triguttatus. At Brandon, in Aug. 1 906, 



by E. A. Elliott and myself 

 Corixa venusta. Four specimens in a 'swamp at 



Bix/ej Decoy, Foxha/l, in Mar. 1897 

 Ebumia forcipata. I swept this in an alder carr at 



Reydon early in June 1905 

 Idiocerus varius. Beaten from trees at Brandon, in 



the middle of Aug. 1906 



Allygus modestus. One swept from manh plants in 



Tuddenham Fen, in autumn of 1906 

 Deltocephalus socialis. Captured at Brandon and 



Tuddenham Fen, in Aug. 1905 

 Deltocephalus formosus. A new British species, which 



I swept at Brandon, Aug. 1906 

 Limotettix stactogala. Found commonly on tamarisk 



at Southwold, Sept. 1907 

 Cicadula metria. Swept from reeds near Brandon 



Stanch in the early autumn of 1906 

 Dicraneura similis. Two specimens were swept in 



Tuddenham Fen, in Aug. 1905 

 Aphalara nervosa . One only, taken on ragwort in my 



garden. Monk Soham House, 1907 



A Summary of the Insects of Suffolk, October 1907 



CoLEOPTERA : — 



Suffolk 



Adephaga 277 



Palpicomia 74 



Brachelytra 441 



Clavicomia 34.3 



S8 

 35 

 56 

 34 

 32 



Lamellicomia 



Stemoxi 



Malacoderma 



Teredilia 



Longicomia 



Phytophaga 187 



Heteromera 73 



Rhynchophora . . . . 320 



Total . . 1,930 



Hemiptira : — 



Heteroptera 287 



Homoptera 171 



Aphididae 66 



Other Groups 13 



Total . . 537 



Orthoptera 



Grand Total 



Britain 



44+ 



95 



777 



681 



90 



76 



9« 



57 



57 



256 



118 



526 



3TI68 



43« 

 3z« 



182 

 c. 299" 



1.233 



Neuroptera : — 



Thysanura .... 

 Pseudo-neuroptera 

 Odonata .... 

 Subnecromorphotica . 

 Trichoptera . . 



Total 



Lepidoptera 



Hymenoptera : — 



Chrsyididae 

 Aculeata 

 Evaniidae . 

 Ichneumonidae 

 Braconidae . 

 Proctotrypidae 

 Chalcididae 

 Cynipidae . 

 Tenthredinidae 



Total 



53 DiPTERA . . • 



Suffolk, 6,355. Britain 



1,171 2,577' 



14,678 



" This is Dale's computation, and is probably much too low ; he says, Thripsidae, 46 ; Coccidae, 1 8 

 (cf Newstead) ; Aleyrodidae, i o ; Pediculidae, 1 4 ; and Philopteridae, 211. 



" Wallter, Haliday, and Westwood are stated to have described 1,274 ^Y Kirchner {Cat. Hym. Eurofi.) ; 

 I have found the above total to be correct by the closest scrutiny. 



" Marshall says (Ent. Ann. 1874) that he has trebled Curtis's number — 56 ; there is no British list, and 

 the above total is that of the species described by Cameron, 1893. 



" We cannot tell the total till Rev. F. D. Morice has completed his present work on this family {Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. 1903 et seq.). 



™ Excluding all the doubtfully British species in Mr. Verrall's List. — C. M 



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