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NOTES ON “THE BROADS.” 
(Read Oct. 4th, by Mr. H. FULLER.) 
This is a “ Holiday Paper,” a record of a fortnight’s holiday spent 
with my friends, Mr. W. I. Cox and Mr. E. Heasler, in Broadland, last 
June, the insects we took and how and where we caught them. The boat 
we had was a cutter-rigged yacht of about eight tons, named the “ Dlark 
Tapley,” and we were provided with a “skipper” who undertook the 
duties of “ cook and captain bold.” Provisions were ordered from the 
Stores to be sent down to Wroxham to await us, and the less one 
depends on local supplies the better, we afterwards found. On arriving 
at Wroxham and finding the boat, Ave attacked the problem of how to 
pack a large number of things into a small space. Shopping 
followed, and having met IMr. Heasler and Mr. E. M. Dadd, the latter 
of whom joined us from the Saturday to the IMonday, we had tea, and 
casting oft' the moorings glided out into the stream and were really 
started on our fortnight’s cruise. We sailed al)Out a mile and a half 
up stream and at 7 o’clock moored to the bank opposite to the 
entrance to Wroxham Broad, where we had decided to have our 
first night’s collecting. 'The collecting ground was a strip of marshy 
land between the River Bure and Hoveton Great Broad. Part of it 
Avas, in fact, a quaking bog. It Avas over-groAvn Avith rank grass and 
rushes, together Avitli ragged-robin, forget-me-nots, various species of 
orchids, the lovely bog-bean, the delicate marsh-fern, and along the 
tow-path Avith tail thistles. A fringe of alder and salloAV separated it 
from Hoveton Great Broad, Avhich is an inaccessible expanse of marsh 
and Avater entirely covered Avith I'eeds and Avater-Aveeds. Thousands of 
gulls Avheeling round overhead kept up hoarse cries and deafening 
screams until Avell after dark and at intervals all through the night, 
starting again in full chorus at daybreak. We sugared some of the 
thistle-heads and also bunches of rushes Avhich Ave had tied up, and at 
dusk captured Addalia iiiiniutata and lliidrclia intnda, the latter insect 
having a curious short rapid flight, and Ave found it very difficult to 
secure, the ground being so uneven and the insect having the habit 
of burying itself among the grass-stems if alarmed. As it greAv darker 
Ave took on the Aving Idiniiich'sia alhidata, Leacama niiiiiidi‘ii>i, J'.arias 
chlorana, Ldiibalaptvrii.v rittata, and others ; at the blossoms of the 
ragged-robin, J>ia)itli<i(‘cia ciu idtali, and IK cnnspi'rsa: and at sugar, 
I/('itciiiiid iiii/iiidcHx, ^iilophdsui hcpativd, A. ytivi'd AA’ith its A'ar. dldjw- 
iitrds, and Cdrddriiid iinirji/icds, amongst others. Me now fixed up 
a lamp and sheet, but, although Ave had a brilliant light, the results 
Avere very poor, and about 1 p.ni. Ave turned in. The next day Ave had 
an enjovable sail up to Horning Eerry, Avhere Ave did a little collecting on 
the marsh land there. AVe each got a nice series of lAiinudrAd dlhiihitd, 
but not much else. A return to AVroxham Avas necessary to enable 
Air. Dadd to get back to toAvn on Alonday morning, and, the Avind 
dropping, the fast part of the journey had to be performed by “ quant¬ 
ing ”_a sort of glorified punting. AA'e reached our previous collecting- 
ground rather late, but Avere taking the same sort of moths, until Ave 
were interrupted bv a marshman and constable, Avho said Ave Avere 
