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Convolvulus arvensis. Found also in Suffolk 
and Cambridgeshire, but a great rarity in the 
rest of the kingdom. 
Acontia luctuosa. W.V, Merton, Thetford ; also confined to 
the “ Breck ” district in this county, but not 
scarce on the chalk of the South of England. 
Erastria FDSCULA. W.V. Merton, Eoxley, Eoulsham, St. Faith’s ; 
generally found in fir woods. 
Bankia argentula. Esp. Curtis, in his “British Entomology,” 
says : — “Taken at the end of June among reeds 
and rushes in bogs in Norfolk, by Mr. 
Haworth;” and Wood (“Index Entomo- 
logicus”) gives a similar account, as also does 
Westwood in his “ British Moths.” Mr. 
Haworth, however, does not mention this in 
his work, whence I conclude that he had not 
met with the insect at the time when he wrote, 
but a MS. note in a copy of his work, 
which formerly belonged to Mr. N. A. Vigors, 
reads thus : — “ A pair were given to me by Mr. 
Hawortb, which were taken in Norfolk.” This 
is evidently in Mr. Vigors’s handwriting, and 
decidedly confirms Curtis’s account. Mr. 
Stainton, in his “ Manual,” gives the locality 
in which Hawortb took his specimens — 
Beachamwell — and this Mr. Doubleday has 
confirmed, so that I feel no doubt that the 
insect actually was to be found in Norfolk 
fifty or sixty years ago. As far as I know 
nobody has collected at Beachamwell since the 
time of Messrs. Haworth and Scales, so that it 
is impossible to say whether this very local 
species still lingers there, or has — like Lrparis 
disjm?’— totally disappeared. It formerly oc- 
curred at Whittlesea Mere, but the only 
locality in the United Kingdom in which, as 
far as I know, it is now to be found, is in the 
bogs of Killarney, in the South West of 
Ireland. 
