INSECTS 



Calocampa vetusta, Hb. Thetfird, Cawston ; 



scarce 

 Cucullia verbasci, Linn. Probably wherever 



in the county Verbascum thapsus and 



V. pulverulentum are found ; rarely seen 



except in the larva state 



— scrophularias, Sch. Excessively rare, but 



a few specimens have been reared by 

 Dr. F. D. Wheeler from larvae found 

 at Bramerton, and by the Rev. H. 

 Williams from some found near 

 Croxton, upon Verbascum 



— lychnitis, Ramb. Found by Dr. W. M. 



Crowfoot at Aldeby ; rare 



— asteris, Sch. Stephens stated that this 



species occurred in Norfolk, but gave 

 no locality. I took it sparingly at 

 King's Lynn, and also found its larva 

 feeding on Aster tripolium in salt 

 marshes 



— chamomillas, Sch. Norwich, one speci- 



men 5 several more obtained at Cromer 

 by Mr. W. H. Thornthwaite 



— umbratica, Linn. Norwich, Yarmouth, 



Broome, Merton, Thetford, Lynn, Horn- 

 ing; not very common 

 Plusia chryson, Esp. (orichalcea, Stn.). Curtis 

 {British Entomology) says that this species 

 was taken at Hethersett. I know of no 

 more recent capture in the county ; 

 yet it is constantly obtained in Cam- 

 bridgeshire 



— chrysitis, Linn. Generally common 



— moneta. Fab. This beautiful and most 



interesting species was discovered in 

 the south of England — evidently then 

 a migrant from the Continent — in the 

 year 1870. From that time it has 

 gradually spread and increased in 

 numbers and in area of distribution, and 

 in June, i 894, a specimen was captured 

 at Sprowston, Norwich, by Mr. Eric 

 Tillett. The following year another 

 was taken in the same place by Mr. B. 

 C. Tillett, and subsequently others, at 

 Norwich, by Messrs. Hinde and Pit- 

 man 



— festucae, Linn. In fens and wet 



meadows generally, flying before sunset 

 at the flowers of Lythrum salicaria and 

 Iris pseudacorus 



— iota, Linn. Widely distributed, but not 



common 



— pulchrina. Haw. (v — aureum, Gn.). Nor- 



wich, Denton, Aldeby, Hingham, Cawston, 

 Sparham, Foxley ; scarce 

 Habrostola urticas, Hb. Generally distributed 



— triplasia, Linn. Thetford, Cawston, 



Hemsby, Horning ; scarce 

 Chariclea marginata, Fab. Caistor, Cromer, 



Sparham, Whitwell, Foxley, Merton ; 

 scarce 

 Heliothis armigera, Hub. Cromer, Holkham, 

 Yarmouth ; rare 



— peltigera, Sch. One taken at Cromer in 



1875, and three more in 1884 ; rare 



— dipsacea, Linn. Yarmouth, Denton, Mer- 



ton, Thetford, Brandon, Barton Bendish, 

 Lynn ; most frequent upon the ' Breck- 

 sand,' where it flies about fields of 

 Onobrychis, Anthyllis, and other cul- 

 tivated Papilionaceous plants. Also 

 reared from larvae found on Linaria, 

 Daucus, and other flowers 



— scutosa, Schl. Two specimens were ob- 



tained at ' light ' at Cromer by Mr. W. 

 H. Thornthwaite in 1875. One of 

 these is in my possession. Another, in 

 the collection of Dr. Mason, is labelled 

 * Captured by A. Coburn, flying in the 

 sunshine, 24th June, 1880, near Jttle- 

 hurgh.' The insect is excessively rare 

 with us 



Heliodes arbuti. Fab. Croxton, Denton, 

 Broome, Cawston ; rather common near 

 Lynn 



Acontia luctuosa, Sch. Merton, Thetford, 

 Brandon ; confined, in this county, to 

 the ' Breck ' district, where it fre- 

 quents fields of sainfoin and trifolium 



Hydrelia argentula, Esp. Curtis {British 

 Entomology) says, ' Taken at the end of 

 June among reeds and rushes in bogs 

 in Norfolk by Mr. Haworth.' A 

 similar statement is made by Wood 

 {Index Entomologicus), and by Westwood 

 {British Moths and their Transforma- 

 tions). But Mr. Haworth did not 

 himself mention this in the Lepidoptera 

 Britannica, whence it seems probable 

 that his captures of this species were 

 subsequent to the publication of his 

 great work. In a copy thereof, which 

 formerly belonged to Mr. N. A. 

 Vigors, is this statement in his own 

 handwriting : ' A pair were given to 

 me by Mr. Haworth which were taken 

 in Norfolk.'' The locality in Norfolk 

 is understood to have been Bcachamwell, 

 but I can find no evidence of the exist- 

 ence of this species there since the 

 time of Haworth — quite early in the 

 present century. But I find that speci- 

 mens were taken at Stoke Ferry by 

 Mr. W. T. Cross of Ely within the 

 last four years. Elsewhere it is an 

 extraordinarily local species, but it is 

 common in one of the Cambridgeshire 



fens 



Hydrelia uncana, Linn. Aldeby, Merton, 



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