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the briflge onv way led down a lane with a row of lime trees on each 
side, ample scope for sugaring. A cart track between culti¬ 
vated fields, with a hedge on each side, led through a gap in the sand¬ 
hills to the shore, lletween the fields and the sandhills lay an 
extensive plain, sandy, and in ])laces marshy. This was divided from 
the fields by a dyke, at this time nearly dry, on the slopes of which 
grew large clumps of white campion. The sandhills themselves were 
an irregular range of mounds of loose, fine sand, boiind together with 
marram grass, and some 60 to HO feet high, extending as far as we 
could see in either direction. The scene from the top was frightfully 
desolate ; the tide was out a long way, leaving a wide expanse of 
dreary sand, only broken by the gaunt skeletons of two large wrecks. 
At night the only thing visible was the Haisboro’ light flashing at 
regular intervals, and the only sound the moaning of the sea. We 
tied up t-wo rows of bunches of marram grass to sugar, one along the 
extreme crests of the hills and the other about half way down the 
landward slope, and on the whole I think those at the top paid best. 
We took Kmnu'h'tiia drcoltirata on the plain, and ('limn-iu-miipa porndhtH 
and J>iantli()(‘cia ciinihali over the white campion. At sugar on the 
sandhills At/rntin r.rrlaiiiatidiiin and A. scpctuni simply swarmed, and we 
boxed several extraordinary aberrations of the latter. We also took 
A})aiiiea ip'iiiina, Maiiu’stra alhicolon, Xortiia aiipitr, and X.plccta. At the 
sugared trees in the lane Lcucania coninia and Aiirotix sfiiefinti were the 
commonest insects, and Apauira hasiliiico, A. (irmina, Xuctua ait/inr, 
trianpiihiw, r-niiiniiii, jdrrta, and (ionopteva lihatri.r occurred. It 
was 12.80 when we had filled all our boxes and started for our row 
back to Hickling, where Iktpta biiiiariilata had been taken. A second 
visit the next evening was equally successful. We took ('hoerocampa 
porcdliin again at the campion, and at sugar on the sandhills Leucania 
littorali^, M. alhicohm, Afiroth irstij/ialis, and Apauica poiiina. At 
sugar in the lane we got L. comma, d/. alhicolon, Uccatcra screna, some 
aberrations of Xoctaa fextira, Hadcna pi^fi, JI. dcnti)ta, 77. adatita, and H. 
disdmilis {naaaa), and some fine red banded forms of Miana stripilin. 
A third visit to this ground on IMonday evening resulted in obtaining 
several more A. littoralis and A. rcatapali'i. d\ e also took (Ajmato- 
pliora octoi/csima at sugar on the sandhills, and Mamestra /area in the 
lane. A single specimen of ('acallia amhratica was taken over the 
campion, and one Dicranara vinala netted. On Tuesday morning we 
took our nets and went up dleadow Dyke in the jollyboat after Papilio 
machaon. It was rather windy and Ave found them very difficult to 
catch. We took nine specimens altogether, but only four or five were 
in good condition. Trying again the next morning, which was bright, 
we secured some half dozen in a wooded glade near Whiterley IMere. 
We sailed doAvn the Thurne to Potter Heigham, and continued our 
journey to Womack Water, being within easy reach of the old reed- 
bed where we took Scuta maritima, and after tea set out to try for 
more. Seven or eight were caught, including one ah. hipnnetata 
with black orbicular and reniform spots. We also took Plasia fcstncae 
and C. clpcnor again. The miasma from the reed-bed, however, was 
overpowering, and Ave returned about 10.80 p.m.. ^Ir. Cox, in the 
meantime, had been Avorking Avith the acetylene lamp, and had taken 
Xeio-ia reticulata {saponariae), IHanthoeeia capsincola, Xoctua aiujur, 
and some nice aberrations of A. /bsOra. A. aia/ur Acaa' round the lamp 
