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iinusually abundant at the same time, whUe Mamestra alhkolon 
Leucanm httorahs, and other coast species were abnormally 
scarce. 
In the immediate vicinity of Norwich I was successful in takiim 
a goo supply of larvae of the very local plume, Pterophorus 
Ueniijianus, feeding on Artemisia vulgaris. This species is one of 
those^ whose abundance in our neighbourhood was discovered by 
Mi^ u G. Uarrett, and I took it freely with him some seven or 
eight years ago. From that time till 1880, however, I have failed 
to lind It in any quantity, and know of no recorded instance of its 
capture elsewhere. 
The reports of 1880 which reach me from other counties are very 
varied to some the season has been a successful one, and nowhere 
t 0 insects appear to have been so scarce as in the Fens. If I may 
lazard a guess I should attribute this to the heavy floods of 1879 
at a season when insects were not prepared to withstand them. 
10 great Entomological feature of the year, however, is the 
. ndanco of larvie of Acronycta alni in the New Forest, on which 
u 1 JCC hope to bo able to communicate some notes next meeting 
from an cyo-witiiess. ^ 
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
GASTnoDP^ .B.eT.s (L,.v.v.) I „„ ,eq„«ted ly 
III ^\ alsingliam to record the occurrence of this rare Hemiptoron 
m cones of Spruce-fir, gathered in Merton Park about the month of 
< niiaij last. J Ius interesting addition to oiir Norfolk Insect Fauna 
for specinieiis of which I am indebted to liis Lordsliip, may 
b distinguished from Gas, rode, fin, „ineu., Linn., the other Eritist 
sp les, by Its paler colour, and the lateral maigins of the tho“ 
flattened and pale tliroughoiit. G.firruginem is of a dull broivn-rcd 
colour, and has the lateral margins of the thorax flattened and jiale 
