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correct name of the species had been first 
obtained, and ascertained from him that Mr. 
Crotch’s specimens were taken, not in the 
fens, hut on the coast, near Yarmouth, and this 
intelligence was afterwards confirmed by Mr. 
1. Brown of Cambridge, who kindly directed 
me to the true locality at Caistor, near Yarmouth. 
Here I had the pleasure of taking last summer, 
a good number of specimens, thus clearing up 
all possible doubt about tlie original locality, 
d-he insect has also been taken at Cleethorpes 
in Lancashire. It is excessively sluggish, 
and usually found hidden among the Elymus 
and surrounding Marram grass, {Ammophila 
(iriindinacea.) 
Nonaguia despecta. Tr. Aldehy, Merton, Sui-hngham, Horning, 
Hanworth, Cawston, Hunstanton ; very abun- 
dant in the fens. Recorded in Norfolk by 
Curtis and Stephens. 
„ fulva. Hiib. Norwich, Aldehy, Merton, St. Faith’s, 
Cawston, Foulsham, Horning ; common in fens 
and damp woods. 
„ HELMANNi. Evers. Yarmouth ; one specimen taken by 
Mr. Farr many years ago. 
„ NEURiCA. Hub. Yarmouth, Aldehy, Merton, Horning, 
Ranworth ; probably in all the fens. 
„ BREviLiNEA. Fenn. Horning, Ranworth. Norfolk 
enjoys the honour of being, as far as I know, 
the exclusive home of this species. It has not 
been taken in any other part of the kingdom, 
nor do I know of any locality for it on the 
Continent. It was discovered by Mr. Charles 
Fenn, of Lewisham, who, when on a visit to 
RauAvorth in the beginning of August, 1864, 
took a single specimen. After a careful com- 
parison Avith the allied species, it AAms described 
by him as a novelty, and a notice of it ajipears 
in the Entomologist’s Annual for 1865, p. 105. 
Since that time many specimens liavo been 
