THE YOUNG NATUEALIST. 



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NOTES FROM SUFFOLK. 



By F. N. PIERCE, Vice-President Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 



Society. 



We arrived at Bloxhall, some four miles from Wickham Market station, 

 on September 9th, and left on September 24th. The weather was cold and 

 sometimes wet, the evenings were especially cold. There seemed to be quite 

 a dearth of insects in the day-time (except wasps which were quite a plague, 

 I saw quarts and quarts of them). All the lepidoptera we saw in the day- 

 time were some three or four Vanessa io, urticce, and atalanta, one of which 

 was discussing the sugar we had laid on the trees the night before for moths, 

 and occassionally a Catocala nupta, sitting at rest on the pollard willows, or 

 on the side of a red brick house. 



On the 22nd, it was a particularly fine warm day, and we, I regret to say, 

 spent it boating on the river. When we arrived at our friend's house (a 

 description of which you will find in the Y.N., Yol. vii., p. 212), we were 

 greeted with the news that while we were away a grand specimen of Vanessa 

 antiopa had settled on the garden walk, and was netted by one of the young 

 ladies, but, unfortunately, it afterwards managed to escape. It is needless to 

 say that we spread sugar and vinegar on every available part of the garden 

 the next day, and kept a good watch, but no Antiopa. (N.B. — We were off 

 home the day after that.) On the Friday we had a really fine warm evening, 

 such as entomologists delight in, and very soon we observed that a large 

 moth was swiftly flying over some petunias. What is it ? Convolvuli ! Why 

 certainly. I was sugaring at the time, but Harker was ready. A bang ! 

 flowers flew in every direction, and so did Convolvuli I (N.B. — We started 

 for home the next morning.) 



The ivy was not out so we took nothing at it, but had to content ourselves 

 with sugaring, which was far from profitable, we seldom saw half-a-dozen 

 moths during the whole evening. Catocala nupta would be there looking 

 grand. I might just remark in passing one must be alive to secure this in 

 anything like fit condition for the cabinet. A few Anchoeelis pistacina, Noctua 

 xanihographa (very worn), two or three Amphipyra tragoponis and pyra7nidea } 

 Xanthia ciirago, Hadena protea (a rare treat for my eyes), one Triphcena 

 fimbria, one Pyralis costalis, six Hypenodes rostralis (these were very difficult 

 to see on some trees), and Leucania impura. 



At light, we took one specimen of Lithosia griseola, and a few Eubolia 

 cervinaria, Luperina testacea, and Hydrcecia micacea. These were the bulk 

 of our captures. 



We spent days trying to take Accentropus niveus. This species occurred on 



