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PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY. 
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HOLIDAY NOTES FROM HUNSTANTON. 
(Read December 18th, 1U00, by S. J. BELL.) 
My companion on the trip herein recorded was my friend Mr. H. H. 
May, with whom it has been my pleasure and privilege to spend several 
enjoyable holidays. Early in the year (1900) we came to the conclusion 
that having given both the New Forest and the Isle of Wight our careful 
attention on more than one occasion, we would this time seek “ fresh 
fields and pastures new ” in the shape of sandhills. Having arrived 
at this decision, the question naturally arose, Which sandhills? After 
much studying of magazine records and vigorous pumping of all likely 
living sources of information, we decided on Hunstanton. Behold us, 
therefore, embarked on June 23rd on a G.E.E. train, which accomp¬ 
lished the 110 miles or so in live minutes over the scheduled time— 
not a bad performance in these days of go-as-you-please-and-stop- 
everywhere railways. 
On reaching our “diggings,” we found that our house looked 
straight out over the shore and sea, a most desirable position in fine 
weather, but somewhat inconvenient when there was “a capful of 
wind ” coming off the water — a state of things that too often pre¬ 
vailed during our stay. In such weather it was necessary to sneak 
out of the back door, as any attempt to open the front one resulted in 
dire disaster to the contents of the hall. 
Having consumed a first-rate tea, we prospected for a sugaring 
ground for the evening, and found that sandhills lay close at hand, 
the vegetation thereon being very scanty, however. Behind them lay 
fields, bordered by a wooden fence, so we decided to make up as many 
hunches of grass on the hills as time would permit, and also to sugar 
the fence posts. The evening was, on the whole, a fairly promising 
one — somewhat cool, as there was a steady breeze off the sea, hut a 
clear atmosphere and overcast sky. Our bag was not a phenomenal 
one. On the grass we took about a dozen Agrutis ripae, some rather the 
worse for wear, and also saw Xijlena lithoxylca, A', moiwglgpha, Meristis 
trigramnrica, and one AgroUs exclamationis; on the fence we found two 
Hama sordid a, one Caradrina marpheus, three Oligia fasciunada, two 
Mamestra trifulii, and four M. olcracea. 
The next morning (Sunday) we determined to explore the other 
end of the shore, in hopes of finding better ground. After walking a 
mile, or thereabouts, along the top of the cliff, we came to the light¬ 
house ; beyond this landmark we found that the cliff sloped down 
rapidly and was succeeded by sandhills covered with much more 
luxuriant vegetation than was the case on the ground we had worked 
the previous evening. Lyme grass being most abundant here, our 
first impulse was to search for the pupa of Titpinostola rlynii, and for 
