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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



I got home after sugaring, but Caradrina morpheus was not uncommon ; 

 Leucania pallens, Arctia mehthastri and lubricepeda were common, and I 

 took one male Euthemonia rusula. 



Micros were very scarce. I took Xanthosetia zcegana, Cr ambus kortuellus, 

 tristellus and selasellus along the wall of the river, and a very pretty Tortrix 

 which I am sorry to say I have not yet named, was very abundant on the 

 trunks of the poplar trees along the river. Bicrorampha seguana might be 

 knocked out of the hedges, along with Bictyopteryx lopflingana, Bergmaniana, 

 and Argyrotoza Conwayana ; beating the underwood in the plantation covey 

 would scare out Rivula sericealis. In the stables near Hatcheston, a little 

 village a few miles off, Pyralis costalis occurred freely, and Farinalis was 

 plentiful in all the stables. A single specimen of Pterophorus microdactyly 

 was taken. 



That extraordinary little Pyrale Acentropus niveus, occurred in a shallow 

 pond some miles from where we were staying, but owing to their propensity 

 of drowning themselves in this muddy pond, they are almost impossible to 

 get, in anything like fit condition for the cabinet. Schcenobius gigantellus, 

 Cledeobia angu&talis, Hydrocampa nywpfatalis and stagnalis, Herbula ccespi- 

 talisy Zyggena filipendulce, Procris stances, and Cerigo cytherea also occurred 

 here. 



I did very little in larvse, but Botys verticalis was plentiful in rolled-up 

 nettle leaves, and we found a batch of the handsome Cucullia verbasci on 

 mullein, in Mr. Rope's kitchen garden. Hydrcecia petasitis in the roots of 

 Petasitis vulgaris, and Petasia cassinea was beaten from oak. 



Just a remark about the weather. I had only one wet day, the rest of the 

 fortnight was very hot and dry, and I am told by the people living there that 

 it is an exceedingly hot county. "While I was there everything was scorched 

 and dried up, and the farmers were getting quite anxious about their crops, 

 I believe they had a spell of six or seven weeks with scarcely an hour's rain, 

 but the week after I left the rain came and greatly improved the prospects of 

 the harvest. 



There was a large piece of salt marsh near Aldborough, but I could not 

 find a single lepidopteron of any description on it, though I searched it well 

 during the day-time, in hope of getting a good micro or two. 



In point of numbers, in 1882, at Norfolk, the same time of year I took 

 about 63 species of macros; in 1883, at Windermere, 50 species; in 1884, 

 at the New Forest, 73 species; in 1885, I was away in September; this year 

 at Suffolk I have taken 77 species. The small take at the ]\orth was, I have 

 no doubt, owing to the wretched weather, as we had only one fine day in the 

 whole fortnight — the other numbers are fairly equal. 



