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 INSECTS Foxley, Wootton, Lynn, Cawston, Beaton St. Andrew ; scarce Apamea basilinea, Sch. Norwich, Kirby Cane, Thetford, Merton, Cawston ; not common — gemina, Hb. Norwich, Aldeby, Thetford, Cawston, Lynn ; not very common — unanimis, Hb. Norwich, Brundall, Mer- ton, Thetford, Aldeby, Foxley, Cawston, Ranworth, Horsey, Lynn ; in the fens and marshy meadows — connexa, Bkh. Foxley, Foulsham, and Neatishead ; very local, and uncommon in the county — ophiogramma, Esp. Norwich, Aldeby, Horning ; in fens among Phalaris arun- dinacea Celaena Haworthi, Curt. Lynn, Merton, Horning, Ranworth ; scarce, and here confined to fens, but larger and more brightly coloured than in its more usual northern localities Miana literosa. Haw. Norwich, Yarmouth, Hunstanton, Thetford, Aldeby, Foxley, Cawston, Horning, Thurn ; most fre- quent on the coast — fasciuncula. Haw. Norwich, Brundell, Yarmouth, Aldeby, Thetford, Cawston, Rising, Horning ; abundant in the damp meadows which border the fens — furuncula, Sch. Norwich, Aldeby, Merton, Brandon, Thetford, Hunstanton, Wootton, Cawston, near Horning ; local, butiabun- dant in rough fields on the coast, and in chalky fields inland Eremobia ochroleuca, Sch. Norwich, Aldeby, Thetford, Denton, Hackford, Hunstanton ; scarce Dipterygia pinastri, Linn. Widely distributed in woods Cloantha perspicillaris, Linn. The capture of a single specimen at Yarmouth was recorded in the Entomologist, ist series, p. 128 (1841). After the lapse of half a century, a second was secured by Dr. E. W. Carlier at a gas lamp in the outskirts of Norwich in the year 1892. This is one of the rarest of British species Trachjea atriplicis, Linn. Thetford, Croxton, Middleton, and Bawsey near Lynn ; very scarce Helotropha fibrosa, Hb. Norwich, Surling- ham, Aldeby, Cawston, Ranworth, Horn- ing, Lynn ; common in the fens Hydrsecia nictitans, Linn. Norwich, Merton, Hoveton, Horning, Hunstanton — petasitis, Dbl. I have seen a single speci- men which was taken at Costessey near Norwich ; probably it is in some degree overlooked Gortyna flavago, Sch. Norwich, Surlingham, Yarmouth, Merton, Thetford, Lynn, Cromer ; not very common Nonagria cannae, Och. Taken at Barton Broad by Dr. F. D. Wheeler, and also near Stalham. Strictly confined to the fens, and in them very local — typhas, Esp. Norwich, West Caistor, Aldeby, Merton, Horning, Barton Broad, abundant near Lynn ; probably every- where in wet places among Typha latifolia — neurica, Hb. Yarmouth, Aldeby, Merton, Ranworth, Horning ; probably in all the fens, but of obscure and secret habits, and rarely taken except at ' light * Ccenobia rufa. Haw. (despecta, Stn.). Pro- bably in all the fens, flying plentifully at sunset over coarse grasses and herb- age in the more open portions. Found even in small isolated marshes Tapinostola fulva, Hb. Moderately common in all the fens, and also in damp woods — helmanni, Evers. There is a record of a single specimen taken many years ago at Yarmouth. As a constant inhabitant of the fens of Cambridgeshire, its appa- rent absence from those of this county is especially noticeable — elymi, Tr. Caistor, near Yarmouth, Hunstanton, Snettisham ; on the coast among Elymus arenarius Calamia lutosa, Hb. Norwich, Yarmouth, Aldeby, Lynn, Horning, Neatishead ; in the fens, and also especially frequenting the broad ditches which drain marshy tracts near the sea — phragmitidis, Hb. Like the last, fre- quenting the fens, and also drains and ditches where reeds abound ; com- mon — brevilinea, Fenn. Horning, Ranworth, and other portions of the fens of the Bure and its affluents. The first known speci- men was taken at Ranworth in 1 864, by Mr. Chas. Fenn, and for some years it remained unique, but gradually the species appears to have become estab- lished, and has increased in numbers to such an extent that thirty specimens have been taken at ' light ' in a single night, and the insect has become well known. It does not however appear to have spread more than a few miles ; has not been found in any other British locality ; and has been taken once only abroad — in Belgium Meliana flammea, Curt. Merton, Brandon ; rare ; much more plentiful in the 145