INSECTS 



Foxley, Wootton, Lynn, Cawston, Beaton 

 St. Andrew ; scarce 

 Apamea basilinea, Sch. Norwich, Kirby Cane, 

 Thetford, Merton, Cawston ; not common 



— gemina, Hb. Norwich, Aldeby, Thetford, 



Cawston, Lynn ; not very common 



— unanimis, Hb. Norwich, Brundall, Mer- 



ton, Thetford, Aldeby, Foxley, Cawston, 

 Ranworth, Horsey, Lynn ; in the fens 

 and marshy meadows 



— connexa, Bkh. Foxley, Foulsham, and 



Neatishead ; very local, and uncommon 

 in the county 



— ophiogramma, Esp. Norwich, Aldeby, 



Horning ; in fens among Phalaris arun- 

 dinacea 



Celaena Haworthi, Curt. Lynn, Merton, 

 Horning, Ranworth ; scarce, and here 

 confined to fens, but larger and more 

 brightly coloured than in its more 

 usual northern localities 



Miana literosa. Haw. Norwich, Yarmouth, 

 Hunstanton, Thetford, Aldeby, Foxley, 

 Cawston, Horning, Thurn ; most fre- 

 quent on the coast 



— fasciuncula. Haw. Norwich, Brundell, 



Yarmouth, Aldeby, Thetford, Cawston, 

 Rising, Horning ; abundant in the 

 damp meadows which border the fens 



— furuncula, Sch. Norwich, Aldeby, Merton, 



Brandon, Thetford, Hunstanton, Wootton, 

 Cawston, near Horning ; local, butiabun- 

 dant in rough fields on the coast, and 

 in chalky fields inland 



Eremobia ochroleuca, Sch. Norwich, Aldeby, 

 Thetford, Denton, Hackford, Hunstanton ; 

 scarce 



Dipterygia pinastri, Linn. Widely distributed 

 in woods 



Cloantha perspicillaris, Linn. The capture 

 of a single specimen at Yarmouth was 

 recorded in the Entomologist, ist series, 

 p. 128 (1841). After the lapse of 

 half a century, a second was secured by 

 Dr. E. W. Carlier at a gas lamp in the 

 outskirts of Norwich in the year 1892. 

 This is one of the rarest of British 

 species 



Trachjea atriplicis, Linn. Thetford, Croxton, 

 Middleton, and Bawsey near Lynn ; very 

 scarce 



Helotropha fibrosa, Hb. Norwich, Surling- 

 ham, Aldeby, Cawston, Ranworth, Horn- 

 ing, Lynn ; common in the fens 



Hydrsecia nictitans, Linn. Norwich, Merton, 

 Hoveton, Horning, Hunstanton 



— petasitis, Dbl. I have seen a single speci- 

 men which was taken at Costessey near 

 Norwich ; probably it is in some degree 

 overlooked 



Gortyna flavago, Sch. Norwich, Surlingham, 

 Yarmouth, Merton, Thetford, Lynn, 

 Cromer ; not very common 



Nonagria cannae, Och. Taken at Barton 

 Broad by Dr. F. D. Wheeler, and also 

 near Stalham. Strictly confined to the 

 fens, and in them very local 



— typhas, Esp. Norwich, West Caistor, 



Aldeby, Merton, Horning, Barton Broad, 

 abundant near Lynn ; probably every- 

 where in wet places among Typha 

 latifolia 



— neurica, Hb. Yarmouth, Aldeby, Merton, 



Ranworth, Horning ; probably in all the 

 fens, but of obscure and secret habits, 

 and rarely taken except at ' light * 



Ccenobia rufa. Haw. (despecta, Stn.). Pro- 

 bably in all the fens, flying plentifully 

 at sunset over coarse grasses and herb- 

 age in the more open portions. Found 

 even in small isolated marshes 



Tapinostola fulva, Hb. Moderately common 

 in all the fens, and also in damp 

 woods 



— helmanni, Evers. There is a record of 



a single specimen taken many years ago 

 at Yarmouth. As a constant inhabitant 

 of the fens of Cambridgeshire, its appa- 

 rent absence from those of this county 

 is especially noticeable 



— elymi, Tr. Caistor, near Yarmouth, 



Hunstanton, Snettisham ; on the coast 

 among Elymus arenarius 

 Calamia lutosa, Hb. Norwich, Yarmouth, 

 Aldeby, Lynn, Horning, Neatishead ; in 

 the fens, and also especially frequenting 

 the broad ditches which drain marshy 

 tracts near the sea 



— phragmitidis, Hb. Like the last, fre- 



quenting the fens, and also drains 

 and ditches where reeds abound ; com- 

 mon 



— brevilinea, Fenn. Horning, Ranworth, and 



other portions of the fens of the Bure 

 and its affluents. The first known speci- 

 men was taken at Ranworth in 1 864, by 

 Mr. Chas. Fenn, and for some years it 

 remained unique, but gradually the 

 species appears to have become estab- 

 lished, and has increased in numbers to 

 such an extent that thirty specimens 

 have been taken at ' light ' in a single 

 night, and the insect has become well 

 known. It does not however appear to 

 have spread more than a few miles ; 

 has not been found in any other British 

 locality ; and has been taken once only 

 abroad — in Belgium 

 Meliana flammea, Curt. Merton, Brandon ; 

 rare ; much more plentiful in the 



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