NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA IN SUFFOLK IX 1901. 3 



hybernated butterflies disporting themselves in the centre of 

 Ipswich one spring-like morning in April. These included two 

 Gonepteryx rhamni and Vanessa io (which seems to be getting 

 scarcer year by year), whilst I also saw one Colias edusa at Bar- 

 ham later on — the only specimen of this irregular visitor which 

 I encountered this year. 



Looking at my diary I find the first noteworthy capture 

 was Teplirosia punctidata, several of which were boxed on tree- 

 trunks in Woolpit Wood on June 8th, together with one T. 

 cxtersaria. The last-named was also netted at Bentley Wood on 

 the 29th, when several other local Geometrse were beaten, viz. 

 Macaria notata (a long series), Bapta temerata, Ephyra punctaria, 

 Acidalia trigeminata (a rubbed specimen), A. candidata and A. 

 luteata. Plenty of Micros were disturbed, including two which 

 had not previously been recorded in the county, viz. Stigmonota 

 redimitana = nitidana and Penthina picana = corticana. A num- 

 ber of Crambus inquinatellus were taken, also Halias prasinana 

 (female), Harpella geoffrella, Halonota cirsiana, Dicrorampha poli- 

 tana, Phoxopteryx lactana, Coleophora limosipennella (two), and 

 C. anatipennella. 1 was also rather surprised to take Homceosoma 

 sinuella so far inland. 



Anent my capture of Acidalia trigeminata, I gather from 

 correspondence with Mr. C. G. Barrett, that this pretty 

 species (which beginners using "Newman's " are apt to confuse 

 with A. Usetata, owing to the transposition of the figures) is 

 becoming very scarce in this country. It may therefore be in- 

 teresting to record the wide distribution of the moth in the 

 Ipswich district. I have met with it several times during an 

 experience of eight years, in fact I have not set all I have taken. 

 It has more than once come to light, but usually I have found it 

 on palings, and in this situation I secured it this summer — three 

 in the borough, one at Westerfield, and another at Barham, in 

 addition to the Bentley specimen. I find on looking back through 

 my diary that my first record for the species was in the summer 

 of 1895. 



Eeverting to my captures for June, the finding of Cossus 

 ligniperda and Orgyia pudihunda on palings in the town may be 

 mentioned. I also saw lying in the road whilst cycling through 

 Little Glemham a damaged specimen of Arctia villica, a moth 

 which is by no means so common hereabouts as one might 

 expect. July was ushered in with Dipterygia pinastri {scahri- 

 uscula), two of which were detected under a wall ledge ; whilst 

 on the 2nd an interesting addition was made to the Suffolk list 

 of Micros in the shape of Tinea merdella, which was flying in 

 numbers in the Lecture Hall, Ipswich, their presence being pre- 

 sumably accounted for by the baize covering of the platform. I 

 could have secured some fifty specimens, but being engaged 

 reporting a meeting, I only managed to box two which alighted 



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