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recorded from Britain. Those recorded as this species = Toxoneura 
muliebris^ Har. (G. H. Verrall, Entoifi. xxiv., pp. 235-236). 
Notes of the Season. — The Norfolk Broads. — Jupiter Pluvius had 
unfortunately taken up his quarters in the district before us, and used 
every trick he knew, thunder, lightning, deluges, and cold mists to 
follow, to produce an extra three or four inches of water in all the 
marshes. The lateness of the season was very noticeable, everything 
about a fortnight behind time. We settlt^d down, a party of three, 
at Horning on July 29th, to work the neighbourhood for anything 
macro-lepidopterous and not too utterly common ; but especially to 
hunt out Nonagria cannce. Working at dusk and at light were equally 
profitless; Gastropacha qiiercifolia^ Lithosia griseola and strammeola, 
Nudaria se?iex^ Epione apiciaria, and Acidalia marginaia were the only 
captures till August 5th. When we first took Leucania brevilinea they 
were in perfect condition, evidently just out, but very scarce, as our 
take never exceeded nine in one evening ; last year they were plentifuj, 
and many much worn by August ist. Not one came to the light this 
year, and all we took were flying at dusk or settled feeding on flower- 
ing grasses ; possibly they may have been more plentiful later on in 
the month. Honeydew and grasses appeared the most fashionable 
resorts for the Nocture, Leucajiia wipiira and pallens simply swarmed, 
and we managed to pick out an Apamea ophiogramma and about a 
dozen Helotropha fibrosa from among the common rabble. Amongst 
larvae I may mention Chcerocampa elpenor feeding on Menyanthis tri- 
foliata (bog-bean), Clostera reclusa^ Eupitheda valerianata^ very nume- 
rous, most of them, however, were ichneumoned, and had a very 
annoying habit of looking quite healthy till full-fed, when they pro- 
ceeded to spin cocoons in sand in a most delusively orthodox manner, 
but a week or so after would be found much elongated and bent 
round in the cocoon, quite rigid and filled with minute green larvae ; 
Saturnia carpini^ both pink and yellow tubercled varieties, on Spirea 
ulmaria ; Notodonta ziczac^ Papilio machaon was very plentiful, but the 
greater number very late, some still in the first skin. I had two 
especially dark through all their changes, even the last skin having the 
green, usually the groundwork, reduced to small streaks and spots. 
The pupae from both are of a bright pink hue. N. canncB was 
certainly the feature of the expedition. Having found a few pupae last 
year after much search, and a great destruction of “ He Gladdon ” 
(the Norfolk name for Typha latifolia\ “She Gladdon” being applied 
to T. angustifolia), we started off for the same spot, and as we 
managed to get enough pupae for a nice series each during the three 
days we worked for it, perhaps a short account of our method of 
working for them may be useful to anyone who, fired by our success, 
may start forth to go and do likewise. He must certainly first equip 
himself suitably for the purpose, and india-rubber waders or fishing 
stockings he must have, unless he prefer rheumatism. The waders 
are preferable, coming up higher, and fishing stockings have been 
known to get filled, in which case they are not very comfortable ; he 
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