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Now back to the “Anchor,” walk on to the locality for sulpkitralis and 
the rest, fill our remaining unfilled boxes, and home on the break to 
Bury St. Edmunds, well contented with our day. 
It is the end of June, and another expedition is organized. Ely- 
drelia unca is still on the wing in the fen, but Agrophila .sulphur alls is 
getting ragged on the sand, and we find little but Acidalia rubricata 
to reward us. But, stay ! as we return somewhat disappointed, we 
institute a search on the flowers of Echium vulgare and Centaurea 
scabiosa. On the former a beautiful specimen of Diantlioecia irregularis 
is found, and another moth, unknown to its captor, is brought me to 
be named. It is Dicycla oo, an insect which I had supposed to be a 
New Forest moth, and not an inhabitant of so open a country. 
It is now J uly, and my pupils are gone home for their holidays, 
so I have to make my excursions by myself with one or two friends. 
There is nothing to speak of in the sandy district except Spilodes 
sticticalis , which is frequently very abundant, and sometimes very 
finely coloured. However, a friend takes a specimen of Lytta vesica- 
toria, and two or three Cerambycidce are^ captured as they fly, to the 
satisfaction of the Coleopterists ; but on the marsh and fen, towards 
5 o’clock in the afternoon, out comes Hyria auroraria in fair number 
and excellent condition, and a very beautiful little insect it is in its 
purple and gold livery. But let me not forget to carry on the search 
for the caterpillars of JSLacroglossa bombyliformis . I look for leaves of 
the blue scabious with holes bitten in them, and am several times dis- 
appointed as I turn them up, for other things bite holes in them 
occasionally besides the expected caterpillar. But patience and per- 
severance ! Another and another plant is visited till I come to a 
region where there has evidently been a considerable deposit of eggs, 
and plant after plant yields a bright green larva with red markings on 
the sides, on the under-side of one of its leaves, and I return with 
nineteen caterpillars of M. bombyliformis in my boxes. Those of Li- 
thostege grisearia , too, swarm on the Flixweed, but are hardly worth 
rearing, so inferior are the bred specimens to those that are taken in 
their wild state. 
With August comes the time for sweeping, and the abundant 
Silene otites yields its store of the caterpillars of Diantlioecia irregularis , 
with an occasional larva of Ileliotliis dipsacea. But the latter larva 
and that of Ileliotliis marginata abound more on the banks which 
edge the road through the open fields from Higham to Tuddenham. 
The imagos of Eremobia ochroleuca and Agrotis valligera are found on 
the Centaurea scabiosa. 
