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and N. ? salicis-cinerea at the latter Broad ; Cephas 'pygmceus was 

 generally common, and the fine C. linearis occurred in the wet 

 places at Surlingham and Eockland. Both sexes of Sir ex gigas 

 were cut from their borings in a pine-shed at Horning Ferry. 

 We saw very few Aculeata, and those were common things : — 

 Crabro clavipes (female) at Surlingham, C peltarius at Attle- 

 borough, flying to nest in telegraph-pole; Odyneriis parietum at 

 Ormesby and on the Buckenham pontoon ; the only bees were 

 Halictiis leucopus and H. cylindricus at Winterton and Hickling, 

 respectively, with Andrena minutula (female) at Ormesby, and 

 H. albipes at Hickling. 



Lepidoptera we studiously avoided, annexing only a solitary 

 Ino statices at Eockland. Only in one place did the glorious 

 Papilio machaon appear, and we feasted our eyes, forbearing to 

 strike so grand a friend. 



Many good marsh things occurred among the Diptera, but 

 here again the weather was all against us. Odontomyia tigrina 

 was swept at dusk at Wroxham, Microchrysa flavicornis and 

 polita common at Hickling, Beris vnllata at Horning, a male 

 Hcematopota pluvialis swept at Surlingham, and a male Chrysops 

 relict us on reeds at Horsey ; Dioctria nifipes at Earlham and 

 Eockland, and Dysimachus trigonus on the Winterton sand-hills, 

 where also were secured two conspicuous grey Tachinids, which 

 have baffled even Mr. Piffard's attempts to determine. Dolichopids 

 were, of course, abundant throughout the district. Pipunculus 

 confasas at Horning ; Chrysogastcr hirtella {macqiiarti) was com- 

 mon, and Liogaster splendida not rare at Horning and Wroxham ; 

 Leucozona lucorum, which does not abound in Suffolk, was found 

 at Earlham ; PyropJuena * ocyuii was generally common ; one 

 example of P. rosarum at Wroxham, with PlatycJiirus fulviventris. 

 Eristalis sepulcliralis, far from farm ponds, turned up not rarely 

 at Horning and Surlingham, at the latter of which was also 

 Helophilus lineatus (male, female), with H. versicolor at Eock- 

 land. One of the most abundant flies was Tropidia milesiformis 

 in all the marshes. Ceromasia ?■ npectabilis swept from reeds at 

 Horsey; Morinia nana at Wroxham; Policies lardaria, in which 

 we thought to have a prize, on the wall of St. Benet's Abbey. 

 The fine Hyetodesia errans along the Yare, and H. ? variabilis at 

 Horning. Melanochelia riparia turned up at Hickling, Hoplo- 

 gaster mollicula at Surlingham and Horning, and H. bicolor at 

 Wroxham ; Cordylura albipes at Eockland, and C. '!■ apicalis at 

 Surlingham. Both Sciomyza albocostata and Sepedon spinipes 

 were swept at Horning, with Calobata petronella, Ceroxys crassi- 

 cornis, and Notiphila tdiginosa, which last was abundant in 

 flowers of NympJma latea. The pretty little Pteropcectria fronde- 

 scentice from Hickling is the only other species worthy of note. 



* Both the British species of Pyrophmna have occurred to me much^more 

 freely this year in various parts of the country than during any previous ex- 

 perience. Am I alone in this observation ? — C. M, 



