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Barton Broad. The day was fine and sunny, and the wind south-east, 

 a combination which favoured us for the rest of the week. We noted 

 a very large number of Pieris brassicce, and P. rapa, flying over the 

 fens on either side of the river, and at Irestead Staithe were greeted 

 with the first Vaneasa io of the season. 



Near the Staithe, and overlooking the large fens bordering Barton 

 Broad, we put up the sheet, a motor-bicycle lamp during duty for the 

 more classical paraffin lighthouse. The night was warm, clear, and 

 with little dew. At dusk we both netted one Xonoi/na brevilinea. 

 But, alas, even an imposing row of posts, and the best of treacle and 

 rum would not tempt our usual friends. The total seen or taken were 

 ou\y Leucania impura [^), Cahnnia phragmitidis (2), Xylophasia mono- 

 gli/fiha (1), Apamea didyma (1), Mania typica (2), M. maura (2), and one 

 Gonoptera Ubatrix. On the sedge-flowers we found three Apamea leucu- 

 stigma [fibrosa) and one N. brevilinea, together with a few L. impura, 

 L. pallens, and C. phragmitidis. Light was just as bad, for only one 

 Odonestis potatoria, one N. brevilinea, and a few common wainscots, 

 came to the sheet. Next night we were in a poor locality and did 

 not go out. On Aug. 2nd, however, we reached Potter-Heigham, and 

 in the evening erected the sheet and posts overlooking the south edge 

 of Whitesea Broad. After a fine hot day we had a clear cool night 

 and a fair dew. The first insect boxed off the posts was Nonagria 

 veurica, but this proved to be the only gem of the evening. The total 

 at the posts were C. phragmitidis (2), A', monoglypha (2), A. leiicostigma 

 (1), Chareas graminis (1), and one Amphipyra tragopugonis. Nothing 

 came to light except Phibalapteryx vittata and Chilo phragmitellns. On 

 Aug. 3rd we had two expeditions to the Norfolk coast. The first was 

 via Summerton, including a sail in the dingy for about four miles, and 

 a two and a half mile walk to Winterton-on-Sea. On the coast we 

 saw the lyme-grass, and resolved to return in the evening, for was it 

 not the time for Tapinostola elymi / 



So, after an " all-night tea," my friend and I cast off in our 

 rowing-boat. This time we went by Whitesea Broad and Horsey Mere, 

 for the staithe at the latter is only about a mile and a half from the 

 coast. We started off with the sheet, five poles, innumerable boxes, 

 and a bag full of impedimenta. The sun had nearly set as we reached 

 the marshy land behind the sandhills, when, to our horror, we found 

 them securely barricaded with a barbed-wire fence, our path blocked 

 by a locked gate, and two keepers waiting our approach. Eventually 

 we were allowed to go on, but only on the condition that we walked 

 straight to the sandhills, and thence northwards out of this preserved 

 property. So we had two more miles against time, and in loose sand. 

 No time now to look for the precious lyme-grass, and we were content 

 to erect the sheet at the edge of the forbidden land. Luckily there 

 were a few plants of ragwort, and these, together with some twisted 

 marram grass, were duly sugared. The night was very warm, with a 

 stiff south breeze, and quite clear. Insects were, however, scarce. 

 Nothing came to light except one Odonestis potatoria. On the sugared 

 ragwort the only insects of any note were four Leucania littoralis and 

 an immense female Cossus ligniperda. After the first two rounds we 

 could find nothing fresh, and as the unsugared ragworts were abso- 

 lutely unproductive, we made off for home, this time along a road to 



