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Chesias spartiata. Fab. Norwich, Aldeby, Merton, Thotford ; 
among broom {Spartium scojxirium.) 
„ OBLiQUARiA. W.V. Norwich, Thctford ; among broom ; 
scarce. Probably at Brandon, where it has 
occurred on the Suffolk side of the river. 
Drepanul^e. 
Platypteryx LACERTULA. Hub. Merton, Northwold, uncommon. 
Drepana falcula. W.V. Norwich, Merton, Tlietford, Aldeby, 
Wootton, Cawston, St. Faith’s, Iloraford; pro- 
bably everywhere. 
„ iiAMULA. W.V. Morton, Thetford, Cawston, St. Faith’s, 
Horsford ; not common. 
„ UNOUICULA. Hub. Merton, Thetford; among beech; 
very local. 
CiLix SPiNULA. W.V. Common everywhere. 
PsEUDO-BO.MBYCES. 
Cerura furcula. Linn. Yarmouth, j\ferton, Thetford, Stratton 
Strawless, Hoveton, Irstcad, Barton Turf; 
probably not rare on sallows in all the fens, 
but seldom taken. 
„ BIFIDA. Hub. Norwich, Thetford, Aldeby, Cawston; 
probably not rare among poplars. 
„ viNULA. Linn. Of general occurrence. 
Stauropus fagi. Linn. Norwich, IMerton, Cawston, Foulsham, 
Horsford, Stratton Strawless ; very rare now, 
although it appears to have been formerly 
much more common. It is said that John 
Curtis used to take it even in the Cathedral 
Close, and he writes in his British Entomology : 
“ One of the first insects that I remember to 
have taken was a female of this insect. It 
was fluttering up palings under some lime trees 
near Norwich, in the middle of June, and 
more than two centuries back Mouffet said 
that the Staphylinm caterpillar was common 
in Norfolk.” 
