NOTES ON LEPIDOPTRRA IN SUFFOLK IN 1901. 5 



spot at Bentley ; but as I was not at the time aware that they 

 differed from the type, I unfortunately did not trouble to set 

 them out. I intend, however, to try and get other similar ex- 

 amples next year. 



Bentley Wood was a veritable happy hunting-ground during 

 July. I made two or three visits there with Mr. A. E. Gibbs, 

 of St. Albans, and we tried sugar with good results, the 

 best Noctupe being Orthosia suspecta, Thyatira hatis, T. derasa, 

 Noctua baia (in profusion), Cerigo cijtlierea, Amphipyra pyramidea, 

 Dipterygia pinastri, Xylophasia scolopaciua, &c. Numerous speci- 

 mens of Herminia tarsipennalis and Endotricha fiammealis were 

 also boxed, whilst TriphcBna pronuha was present in abundance. 

 A day with the beating-stick on the 23rd was productive of fairly 

 good results. Being dull, butterflies were only occasionally seen, 

 and the only noteworthy captures were Limenitis Sibylla and 

 Thecla qucrcus. The former were getting over, and I congratu- 

 lated myself on having made a special visit a fortnight earlier, 

 when I netted eight grand specimens. Scores could have been 

 easily taken, I am glad to say, notwithstanding the regrettable 

 fact that something like a thousand specimens were caught last 

 year by two or three unprincipled collectors. Calligenia miniata 

 was taken at dusk with Crambus pinctellus ; Corcmia quadrifasci- 

 aria was found on palings, and Mr. Gibbs also espied Geometra 

 papilionaria on a leaf. Xylophasia lithoxylea was detected on a 

 fir-trunk, resting with head downwards, a peculiarity which I 

 have more than once noticed in regard to this species. The Micros 

 encountered included Harpipteryx xylostella, several RhodophcEa 

 tumidella in fine condition, Pcedisca solandriana (rather worn), 

 Ebulea verbascalis, &c. We stayed the night in the wood, putting 

 up at a cottage. Next morning we resumed operations, but 

 beyond Lycmna argiolus, Argynnis adippe, and Epione apiciaria, 

 nothing worth recording was met with. Several eggs of Cerura 

 vinula were seen on the upper surface of leaves of aspen bushes, 

 looking to all appearances like galls. On the way home to 

 Ipswich I boxed another C. pinetellus. 



The latter end of August I spent at Felixstowe with Mr. 

 Gibbs, and some scarce coast things came to sugar, including 

 long series oi Agrotis ripce and A. restigialis ; also innumerable 

 specimens of A. tritici and A. nigricans, many of which were very 

 interesting varieties. On Landguard Common Crambus contami- 

 nellus and Cledeobia angustalis were found in considerable numbers 

 in the daytime, whilst Gelechia desertella was swarming in the 

 grass-tufts. Several Homoeosoma sinuella were also netted, and 

 two Herbula cespitalis. A morning with the beating-sticks on 

 the cliffs towards Bawdsey was not very profitable, but what few 

 things we met were good. I took a fine specimen of Platyptilia 

 gonodactyla and two Conchylis dilucidana, the latter being a new 

 record for the county; whilst Mr. Gibbs was fortunate in cap- 



