COLLECTINft LEPIDOPTERA IX THE N()BKOr,K liKOADS. 2^)?} 



" rcrndla, Cst., St. IMartin Vesubie " (this is equivalent to St. Martin 

 Lantosque, 35 miles inland from Nice, in the high mountains, 8,210ft.) 

 — the information must have been received from Constant), and it is 

 probably the species mentioned by Milliere {(.'at. Lfp. Alp. -Mar., 295) 

 under the name '' lajiiddla, Goerge " [:|: Goze] ; in a note Milliere 

 added " dans le Lyonnais I'espece vit au pied des coUines, et dans la 

 plaine," and gave June and July as the time of its occurrence. 

 Admitting that Fologne rightly determined the Lyons species 

 as lapidella, we suspect that Milliere introduced the species 

 into his Catalogue solely on the evidence of larva; which he 

 never reared. His collection went to the Paris Museum with the 

 Eagonot Collection, and it would be interesting to establish, by study- 

 ing his specimens, whether his lapidella — if he possessed the perfect 

 insect from Lantosque — is Constant's irrnrlla, and whether Milliere's 

 compurcatdla (of the same list) is Constant's defolidla. It is almost 

 certain that two species occur at Cannes, one of which may or may not 

 be identical with that from Lantosque. In short, is the species now 

 described by Constant, veniella (Cannes), or vernella (Lantosque), or 

 both, and is the type the species with the broader or narrower fore- 

 wings? — for in this respect my specimens received from himditi'er con- 

 siderably. Again, what is his defolidla, with the antenme weakly 

 pubescent? — this character is certainly not found in Jktnhesia or Ijifjia, 

 and separates it generically from cernella. 



Collecting Lepidoptera in the Norfolk Broads. 



By W. J. KAYE, F.E.S. 

 Following an outing to Wicken for the August Bank Holiday I this 

 year decided to try my luck in the Norfolk district, rather generally and 

 vaguely termed the "broads." The term "broad " is, strictly speaking, 

 applied to the large sheets of water found in various places in close 

 proximity to a river (whichever it may be). The collecting is chiefly 

 to be done on the strips of fen which skirt the river (in my case the 

 Bure) at various places, and in the occasional large patches of fen where 

 the neighbouring country is very flat. I made the acquaintance of 

 Mr. James at Wicken, and, in response to my invitation, he joined me 

 late on the night of August 9th at a charming village, from whence 

 Horning was not many miles distant. Although it was 8.45 p.m. 

 before we could get out to work we determnied not to lose a single 

 evening at light. Our first impressions, in the dark, of our new 

 collecting-ground, were the very antipodes of those we had expected to 

 receive — low undulating ridges of country and well wooded. However, in 

 course of time we reached Horning, and there we were surprised to find 

 that, instead of a large expanse of fiat country, there was only some 

 marshy land bordering the river. We had carted (wish we had !) the 

 "light" (?) apparatus down with us, but as we neared the river an 

 ommous fog told us what to expect ; and the fog was right — we got 

 nothing, unless one counts a worn J'/iibalajdcrij.f rittata (lii/nata) and a 

 similar Acidalia iinntatata. Next day we tried sweeping in the fen and 

 took a couple of J'litaia f<')^titcae larvic, but our vigorous etibrts in this 

 direction were not rewarded, and we chartered a boat at the ferry and 

 went in search of Xi)na;iiia cannae pupjt. Up one of the creeks the 

 buUrushes (the large species, 'I'liplia latifnliu) had a very sickly 



