INSECTS 



Petasia cassinea, Fab. Norwich, Merton^ 

 Thetford, Cawston, Sparham, Hockering, 

 Lynn and Foxley IVood 



Clostera curtula, Linn. Merton, Thetford, 

 Hingham ; rare 



— anachoreta, Fab. Barton. A colony in- 



troduced here from the south coast, is 

 said to be thriving 



— reclusa, Sch. Apparently generally dis- 



tributed on boggy heaths and in fens 

 among the dwarf sallows 



Diloba csruleocephala, Linn. Generally dis- 

 tributed, and in some seasons plentiful. 

 At Denton Rectory I saw larva feeding 

 freely upon Pyrus japonica, its ordinary 

 food being hawthorn or blackthorn 



Gonophora derasa, Linn. Widely distributed 

 in woods, but not common 



Thyatira batis, Linn. Also rather uncom- 

 monly in similar situations 



Cymatophora duplaris, Linn. Norwich, St. 

 Faiths, Merton, Aldehy, Foxley, Foul- 

 sham, Neatishead, Horning, Lynn ; not 

 plentiful 



— or, Sch. Foxley, Foulsham, Denton, Neatis- 



head 



— ocularis, Linn. Norwich, Lynn, Cawston, 



Foulsham, Yarmouth, Denton, Gillingham, 

 Thetford ; not rare among poplar 

 Asphalia diluta, Sch. Merton, Neatishead, 

 Foulsham ; not generally common in 

 the county, but plentiful in Foxley IVood 



— flavicornis, Linn. Merton, Drayton, Strat- 



ton Strawless ; common near Lynn and 

 at IVootton 



— ridens, Fab. Norwich, Stratton Strawless, 



Felthorpe, Cawston, Drayton, Denton ; 

 not very common 



Diphthera orion, Esp. Taken near Aldehy by 

 Dr. Crowfoot ; not observed else- 

 where in the county 



Actonycta leporina, Linn. Norwich, Strat- 

 ton Strawless, Lynn, Runham, Horning, 

 Foulsham, Cawston, Foxley, Merton, 

 Thetford ; not very common 



— aceris, Linn. Generally distributed 



— megacephala, Sch. Norwich, Yarmouth, 



Thetford, Merton, Aldehy, Foxley, 

 Cawston, Horning ; sometimes common 



— alni, Linn. Merton, Foxley, Cawston, 



Foulsham, Sail, Aylsham, Stratton Straw- 

 less ; always rare, but recorded in the 

 county by Haworth and Stephens 



— strigosa. Fab. Recorded at Foulsham by 



the Rev. T. H. Marsh. Stephens 

 writes : ' Mr. Haworth possesses a 

 single specimen of this insect, which I 

 believe was taken in Norfolk.^ The 

 headquarters of the species are in Cam- 

 bridgeshire 



Acronycta tridens, Sch. Norwich, Dunston, 

 Thetford, Merton, Aldehy, Lynn, Cawston, 

 Horning, Barton Turf; not very rare 



— menyanthedis, Esp. Two larvje were 



found by Dr. F. D. Wheeler in fens, 

 one at HickUng Broad, the other at 

 Barton Turf ; of these one was reared, 

 and is unquestionably the present 

 species. Usually quite a northern 

 insect 



— rumicis, Linn. Merton, Thetford, Aldehy, 



Cawston, Horning ; not common in 

 this county 



— ligustri, Sch. Merton, Thetford, Aldehy, 



Foxley, Cawston, Foulsham, Lynn ; not 

 common 



Arsilonche venosa, Bkh. (albovenosa, St. C). 

 Ranworth, Horning, Reedham ; found 

 only in the fens 



Agrotis valligera, Sch. (vestigialis, St. C). 

 Common on all the sandhills of the 

 coast, and also on the loose sands of the 

 ancient coast known as the ' Breck- 

 sand,' near Thetford, Brandon and 

 Merton 



— suffusa, Sch. Generally distributed 



— corticea, Sch. Norwich, Merton, Thet- 



ford, Cawston, Lynn, Hingham, Horning ; 

 not scarce ; sometimes in very black 

 forms on the coast 



— puta, Hb. Norwich, Aldehy, Thetford, 



Lynn, Cawston, Hunstanton ; not very 

 common 



— ripje, Hb. Caistor, near Yarmouth, Hun- 



stanton, Heacham ; probably wherever 

 Salsola kali grows on the sea-sands 



— cursoria, Bkh. Abundant on the sand- 



hills of the coast, at Yarmouth, Caistor, 

 and Hunstanton. Not found inland 



— nigricans, Linn. Generally distributed, 



and in great variety 



— tritici, Jyinn. Very abundant upon 



coast sand-hills, and richly and variably 

 coloured ; also, in similar rich forms, 

 in plenty throughout the ' Breck-sand ' 

 district ; and in more dull and ordinary 

 forms to be found occasionally on all 

 heaths 



— aquilina, Sch. Norwich, Brandon, Thet- 



ford, Horning, Cawston, St. Faiths ; some- 

 times common 



— agathina, Dup. Lynn ; on heaths, but rare 



— porphyrea, Sch. Common on heaths 



— praecox, Linn. Yarmouth, Caistor, Hun- 



stanton ; on the coast sand-hills ; also 

 rarely near Thetford on the ' Breck- 

 sand ' 



— saucia, Hb. Norwich, Yarmouth, Lynn, 



Cawston, Dilham, Sparham, Thetford, 

 Aldehy ; uncertain, usually scarce 



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