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AN ENTOMOLOGICAL VISIT TO HUNSTANTON. 
By Claude Morley, F.E.S., etc. 
Read March 26th, 190 7. 
Many Entomologists have, at various times, visited the only 
western watering-place on the East coast, but none have 
been of that omnivorous sort which takes everything that 
crawls or Hies ; and it may, consequently be of interest to 
the Society to have upon record a few of the great crowd of 
uncommon species met with by Mr. Ernest A. Elliott, F.Z.S., 
F.E.S., and myself during a week’s stay there last August. 
We had put up for a night at King’s Lynn on the 17th, in 
order to learn what Mr. Atmore could tell us of the insect 
produce of the Lincolnshire coast thereabouts ; but a hard 
day’s collecting from Sutton Bridge, Guy’s Head. Gedney 
Drove, Leamlands, &c., to Long Sutton produced so little 
and we found every inch of the rich alluvial soil so assidu- 
ously cultivated, that we returned in disgust to Norfolk, with 
none of King John’s nor any other kind of Jewels ! 
On the rank grass on the bank of the Ouse during a shower 
at King’s Lynn, we found Microgaster sticticus, Dolichopus 
griseipennis, Platychirus clypeatus and a few Anthomyids ; 
but our collecting really began on the 19th when we got to 
Holme-juxta-Mare, as the Rev. William Kirby, M.A.. F.R.S.. 
termed it on the occasion of his visit to the spot, where he 
first found Apion limonii in the world in about the year 1800. 
Our primary object was, of course, this beautiful Apion, whose 
home is an extensive salt marsh about half a mile long and 
some 200 yards broad, covered at that time with flowers of 
the Sea Lavender (Statice limoniiim) ; and here we had the 
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