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[November, 
REMINISCENCES OF ENTOMOLOGY IN SUFFOLK. 
BY THE BEY. A. H. WRATISLAW, M.A. 
Having struck mv tent in the east, and moved to the extreme 
west of the country, let me endeavour to wake up a few reminiscences 
of that best of entomological counties, Suffolk, and my own happy 
hunting grounds at Tuddenham St. Mary’s (near Mildenhall) and its 
neighbourhood in particular. 
It is about the 12th of June, the day is bright, the wind south- 
west, and everything invites the Entomologist, especially the Lepi- 
dopterist. Let us visit Tuddenham with its sands, its heath, its little 
marshes, and its fens. We start a good party in a break from Bury 
St. Edmunds, and, in about an hour and a half, approach the goal of 
our desires. We stop about half-a-mile short of the village, and send 
our conveyance on to the “Anchor.” Then a detour is made to the 
right, and, in a few minutes, we are in the midst of rarities. Lithostcge 
grisearia is flitting about among the barley and in the neighbourhood 
of its food plant, the Elixweed ( Sisymbrium Sophia ) ; Acontia lucivosa 
hastens away as we approach ; Agrophita sulphuralis darts rapidly 
from one position to another, and requires a practised eye to see, and 
a practised hand to catch it ; Heliothis dipsacea careers wildly about, 
settling now and then on a flower, when it falls a victim to somebody’s 
whirling net ; and now and then Acidalia ruhricata rises and flits 
before us, difficult to distinguish and keep in view on some barren 
patch of ground. Such are our captures on the way to Tuddenham. 
But we must hasten toward the marsh and fen, or Melitcea Artemis 
will have ceased to fly, whereas we can make another onslaught on 
Agrophita sulphuralis and some of its companions on our return. On 
we go, and proceed another half mile to the heath, marsh, and fen, or, 
as it is properly termed, the common. Artemis is abundant, as it is every 
now and then, and is flying vigorously on both heath and marsh, espe- 
cially where a ring of birch trees form a kind of enclosure, which it parti- 
cularly affects. Its food plant, the blue or devil’s-bit scabious, is abun- 
dant everywhere, and I mentally make a note, that search must be made 
next month for the beautiful larva of Macroglossa homhgliformis, which 
oerhaps may be found by searching, in the same way as that of fuciformis 
is found on the low' trailing bines of the honeysuckle. Now down to 
the fen, iu the immediate neighbourhood of which a fair number of spe- 
cimens of Hydrelia unca are captured flying among the long grass. But 
little else is now found except the brood of the larvae of Saturnia carpini, 
which has taken possession of quite a district of the meadow-sweet. 
