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the rivers Yare, Bure, Waveney, &c., and are not exclusively confined to the large 
fens, such as Ranworth and Horning, so that I think there is little fear that they 
will be entirely exterminated. 
For instance, last June, in some marshy meadows on the borders of Suffolk, 
Phibalapteryx lignata, Tortrix costana, and even Glyphipteryx cladiella were quite 
common ; and, at a gas-lamp a short distance away, I had the good fortune to 
secure a specimen of Meliana flammea. 
About the same time a young friend found, in a little fen a few miles down 
the Yare, Papilio Machaon, commonly, and also Spilosoma urticw and Hydrelia unca. 
Later in the summer I went with him to the same spot, and although insects were 
very scarce, or loth to turn out, we managed to secure Nudaria senex, Collix sparsata, 
Nonagria despecta, Peronea aspersana, Laverna propinquella, Elachista paludum, 
and Opostega crepusculella. 
In other small strips of marsh along the river side, I have met with 
Phibalapteryx lignata (two broods) in June and August, Acidalia immutata and 
emargimata commonly, larvee of Cidaria sagittata feeding on seeds of Thalictrum 
flavum,* Leucania straminea on the reeds, Apamea unanimis flying in the evening, 
A. ophiogramma on blossom of Scrophularia aquatica, A. fibrosa and Orthosia 
suspecta at sugar, and Plusia festuce flying at sunset round blossoms of Lythrum 
salicaria, Mentha hirsuta and Stachys palustris, in company with an occasional 
Dianthecia cucubali. One specimen of this last also paid me the rare compliment, 
one windy night, of settling on and greedily sucking my sugar. In the absence of 
Silene, the larvee feed in the capsules of Lychnis flos-cuculi, also freely eating the 
leaves. 
Pionea stramentalis was rather common among the tall herbage, and Scheno- 
bius forficellus (very variable) among the sedges and flags by the ditch sides, where 
also S. mucronellus and Chilo phragmitellus occurred, and Orthotenia sparganella 
among Sparganium ramosum. In September and the beginning of October, when 
Nonagria fulva was flying in abundance at dusk, I met with several specimens of 
Pterophorus isodactylus flying over the reeds and tall herbage, and at the same time 
a second brood of the common Epione apiciaria made its appearance. These fenny 
localities seem favourable to second broods. LElachista cerusella was very common 
among reeds in both June and August, and its mines in the leaves in July. 
E. Kilmunella abounded among Carex in September, Hudorea pallida was, of course, 
common all the summer, and Peronea aspersana and Shepherdana by no means 
scarce among Spirwa ulmaria, while Phleodes immundana swarmed among alders. 
A curious circumstance connected with the reeds deserves especial notice. 
One tall reed-bed, occupying a wide ditch or drain, was so attractive to insects 
that by sweeping it with the net at dusk I sometimes secured more insects than 
T could capture in the whole evening otherwise. Besides the Lewcanie—straminea, 
impura and pallens—and the Phryganide, which were evidently at home—Agrotis 
nigricans and tritici, Noctua plecta, rubi and umbrosa, Miana furuncula, Apamea 
fibrosa and oculea, Tethea subtusa, Gonoptera libatrix, Epione apiciaria, Zerene rubt- 
ginata, Pelurga comitata, Cabera pusaria, Eupithecia minutata, Ebulea sambucalis, 
Eudorea cembre, and Tortrix heparana—a most heterogeneous lot, where all to be 
* These larvee being, I suppose, on their natural food-plant, were content to feed exclusively 
on the seeds. I was unable, by the most careful examination, to find any evidence of their 
having eaten the leaves, or gnawed the stems so as to wither them.—C. B. 
