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angustatus ; and at Tostock, Trigonometopus frontalis, with 
Ptycoptera albimana, all new to my list. 
In Coleoptera, my best capture was Hedobia imperialis, which 
came on the window in May. At Brundall, in August, I took the 
curious Weevil, (Jionus scrophularise flying in the sunshine near 
Dr. Beverley’s lake ; and on the marshes at Aldeburgh, Sitones 
puncticollis, Zeugophora subspinosa, and Chilocorus bipustulatus. 
Late in September, at home, Cryptophagus populi from a fungus 
on white Poplar. This is a very rare insect, and new to the 
Suffolk list, and not recorded in Norfolk, I believe, since Stevens 
found it in the thirties. 
The hot weather caused many of our numerous ponds to be very 
low, and several were quite dry. I took the opportunity in 
September and October of dredging for water insects, which had 
collected together and were easy to get at. Although so late in 
the season, I got both sexes of Dytiscus marginalis in plenty : 
Colymbetes fuscus, Haliphus fulvus, Ilybius fenestralis, and Pelohius 
tardus. And among the water-bugs : Naucoris cimicoides, Corixa 
geoffroyi, • and the curious and rare Ranatra linearis, a stick-like 
creature, three inches long, which lives at the bottom of the 
ponds. Among the Hemiptera and other land-bugs, the marshes 
at Aldeburgh yielded Anthoeoris confusus, Paramesus nervosus, 
Idioeerus distinguendus, Athysanus sordidus, Teratocoris anten- 
natus, and by Plumstead lake, Phytocoris longipennis. 
'l’he great event of the year was, undoubtedly, the phenomenal 
appearance of the larvae of Sphinx convolvuli. Large numbers 
were found in Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, generally upon 
the wild Bind-weed, or Lesser Convolvulus, in Potato fields, and 
sometimes upon the Scarlet Runner- bean. Several newly hatched 
Moths were brought me, which had flown into light in the cottages; 
but the natural condition of the pupae, which are subject to the 
autumn rains and dews, is nearly always affected by trying to 
breed the Moths indoors, unless the pupae are “ forced” in a warm 
temperature, and I have heard of a few Moths being successfully 
reared in this way. Many of the pupae of course will be struck 
by Ichneumons, which may emerge in June, and I should be very 
grateful for a specimen bred from the pupa of Convolvuli , which 
once seen cannot be mistaken for any other of the Hawk Moths. 
