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From a large number of rushes the pupse or larvae had been 

 eaten out. Is it rats or duck that eat them out in this way ? It 

 is always a little above the water-line, and the stem is well 

 mauled. Cannce larvae appear to feed on the fringe nearest the 

 shore, arundinis right into the deeper water ; but in a wet season 

 like this all the marsh is water-logged, and we were often knee- 

 deep in getting them. 



At night we added to our captures again N. hreviUnea, red 

 T.fulva, a large number of P. semifuscana, a single example of 

 the bright Norfolk form of Celcena haworthii, and more Niidaria 

 senex, P. vittata, &c. Two full-fed larvae of Chcerocampa elpenor 

 were found during the day, one of the green and one of the brown 

 form. 



In the expectation of a strong wind, we were roused at 

 4.30 a.m. next day, and it was well we came away as we did, as 

 a boat lying near us, which started a few hours later, lost her 

 jib and got into difficulties. Five hours' hard work saw us again 

 at Kanworth with keen appetites for breakfast. 



During the afternoon our skipper, whose interest in Lepi- 

 doptera was growing apace, offered to row us round in the dinghy 

 to find more pupae of N. caiince. The search proved fruitless, but 

 the skipper, who was working on his own account, produced a 

 damaged typha pupa, and what he termed " a wriggler," which 

 proved to be the larva of a mosquito. It was summarily 

 executed, but the serious toll of blood and subsequent irritation 

 must be taken into account when collecting from a yacht. 



The evenings became less and less productive. On this our 

 last but one we took nothing but three or four N. hrevilinea, a 

 single neurica, and a few C. phragmitidis. On our final evening 

 we lay off Wroxham Broad, probably in too cultivated a region 

 for the best results. The day promised well, but the heavy 

 clouds and close atmosphere which raised our hopes resulted in 

 what Norfolk people call a" tempest," with drenching rain late in 

 the afternoon, but afterwards it cleared up, cold and still, and 

 stars were visible. The solitary moth that came to light was a 

 Noctua rubi, but in addition to adding to our captures of P. 

 vittata, A. immutata, &c., we took a good series of Cramhus sela- 

 selliis and a Lohophora viretata. 



This was a poor enough ending, but on the whole, in spite of 

 bad weather, of which we had every variety, wind and wet and cold, 

 we had little reason to regard the holiday as other than success- 

 ful. Miiscerda, indeed, we did not take, nor did we see a sign of 

 such insects as Schoenobius mucronellus or gigantellus or Calamo- 

 tropha paludella. The special Broadland Micro-Lepidoptera 

 were, with the exception of Peronea shepherdana and Pcedisca 

 semifuscana, absent ; Tortrices as a whole, indeed, were very 

 little in evidence, and common Noctuae few in number, but 

 Nonagria cannce, neurica, and hrevilinea were in themselves a 



