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blossoms — sitting thus, I secured three pairs, and filled my 

 boxes, taking also a few very white Tapinostola fulva. This 

 insect at first surprised me. Previously near Crowborough, in 

 Sussex, I have taken only the red form and that in late September. 

 Here I saw no red ones, though the insects were obviously fresh. 

 The night, which had been good for moths, had been equally good 

 for mosquitoes (I had been too busy to care for them), but after 

 my second excursion I felt that enough had been done and suffered. 

 I turned in, the proud possessor of forty-four L. hrevilinea, five 

 white T. fulva, and a typical H. leucostigma. 



The next day I could hardly see or walk — the mosquitoes had 

 feasted royally — and setting occupied much of my time. Wind 

 and rain detained us at Potter Heigham Bridge, and the night 

 was too stormy for mothing. 



On August 6th we went down to Acle and then beat back to 

 St. Benet's. The night was very windy ; but I meant having 

 another try at hrevilinea. To my disgust I found my tiny reed- 

 patch laid in swathes, and from its stubble I got nothing at alh 

 There was a howling gale, but among the uncut beds I managed 

 to net some dozen specimens during their dusk flight, under the 

 lee of such bushes as there were. ' Then commenced the search. 

 It is extraordinary how a small acetylene lamp brings out moths. 

 I have not got a good eye for spotting them by day, but that 

 night I fancy very few that came within the five-yard circle of 

 my lamp escaped me. The reeds were waving furiously — boxing 

 was no easy matter. But by leisurely searching between nine 

 and ten o'clock I brought up my total for the night to twenty- 

 five hrevilinea and one H. leucostigma v^r.fihrosa. After that my 

 eyes were so dazzled with the constant flicker of the reeds that 

 I gave up the search —in fact I could not have seen a moth had 

 one been sitting in front of me. Neither on August 6th nor on 

 the 4th did I see any P. muscerda. Lithosia var. stramineola and 

 a few common Geometers were all else that I noticed. 



The next day we returned to Wroxham, having long journey- 

 ings before us for Saturday. I turned out at dusk to try the 

 rough field opposite the mooring-place above the bridge, fell 

 headlong through a screen of cut rushes into two feet of mud, 

 and returned with nothing better than two L. stramineola and one 

 Noctua umhrosa. Just as we were turning in a moth flew to our 

 lamp and sat on the cabin wall. It was a last L. hrevilinea, but 

 whether an escape from the previous night's boxes or a genuine 

 Wroxham specimen, I do not know. It was our farewell to 

 Broadland, 



