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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK Additions, i 899-1 907 {continued) Cassida vittata, Vill. Grass-tufts ; Bentley Woods and East Bergholt Blaps Gages, Linn. The only British specimen at Bury (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1903, p. 174) Tribolium confusum. In vast numbers in a flour- mill in Loa-estoft Mycetochares bipustulata. Staverton Thicks in June, one only Latheticus oryzae. Abundant in the Lotvestofi flour- mill in Aug. Anthicus instabilis. On Chenopodium, both sexes, at FeUxs:o'xe Rhynchites interpunctatus; On sallow in Bentley Woods in May Apion ononidis. On Ononis spinosa in Blakenham chalk pits — dissimile. Swept from trefoil, Bentley Woods (cf Ent. Rec. 1900, p. 78) — sanguineum. Once said to have occurred at Brandon (cf Ent. Mo. Mag. 1904, p. 87) Otiorhynchus raucus. On Felixstowe cliffs in June Trachyphloeus spinimanus. Sparingly at Toxhall and Tuddenham Phyllobius viridicollis. Common in June at Brandon; tuddenham Limobius mixtus. Captured at Brandon in early June Hypera suspiciosa. One female at Oulton Broad in Mar. — trilineata. Singly in Bramford marsh and Shrub- land Park Orchestes dccoratus. Swept from dwarf sallow in Tuddenham Fen, Aug. 1905 Liparis coronatus. Bramford Road, Ipstvich ; probably imported with chalk Erirrhinus scirpi. One in reed refuse at Benacre Broad in Sept. Bagous nodulosus. In dykes at Beccles in June and Aug. Tychius tibialis. Found at roots of ragwort at Bran- don in June Sibinia potentillae. One found on the Corton clifls in Aug. Gymnetron collinus. Brandon, one in June 1903 Ceuthorhynchus ericae. Hollesley Heath and Tudden- ham Fen, local — euphorbiae. At Brandon and Glemsford in June Ceuthorhynchideus Dawsoni. Once in June at Brandon — horridus. In a chalk pit at Brandon, very rare — mixtus. One swept at Wherstead (cf Ent. Mo. Mag. 1900, p. 287) — posthumus. Singly at Mildenhall and Foxhall Plateau Litodactylus leucogaster. Apparently rare ; Oulton Broad and Southtvold Balaninus rubidus. Brandon, and not uncommon in Tuddenham Fen Codiosoma spadix. One ' on coasts of Suffolk ' in Capron's collection ; and at Southzvold, by my- self Bruchus affinis. On Angelica at Claydon Bridge in Aug. — pectinicornis. One female on Angelica flower at Foxhall in Aug. Megacronus cingulatus. Beaten from a birch bush in Tuddenham Fen early in May 1907 Quedius obliteratus. Wherstead, Ipswich, Bury, and Westleton — vexans. Taken by Prof. Beare in moles' nests at Ipswich in the spring Oxypoda longipes. Also found in moles' nests at Ipswich by Prof Beare These additions go to show how inuch there yet is to be done in the local kinds, and how very far we still are from the perfect knowledge or catalogue of them, in spite of our 1,930 species; though, in the compilation of this extensive list, we have had the advantage of visits from nearly all the best British coleopterists. LEPIDOPTERA Butterflies and Moths The handsome butterflies and moths have always come in for the lion's share of attention among insects, and Suffolk has not been behind the majority of counties in the investigation of her indigenous species ; so much so has this been the case that of late years local collectors have been to a great extent relieved of the pressure of their study, which circumstance probably accounts for the comparatively full catalogues of the more neglected orders of insects which the few resident collectors have been enabled to compile. The first list issued by the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield was dated 1888, when, during the compilation of a county catalogue, he found a very much greater mass of in- formation respecting the Macro- than the Micro-Lepidoptera, and was induced to bring out a preparatory account of the latter in order that it might be augmented to something approaching the perfection to which the former had already attained. The result is seen in the very full Lepidoptera of Suffolk c published in 1890, and supplemented in 1900, mainly from the 'records of Canon Cruttwell, Revs. J- H. Hocking and A. P. Waller, Messrs. Claude Morley, E. Baylis, and the late C. A. Pyett. The Victoria County lists of Lepidoptera have often run to such length that only a general outline of those of Suffolk will be given, with especial reference to such species as are peculiar to, or especially prevalent in, the county or generally rare. Considering the proximity of Suffolk to both Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, it is curious that the Swallow-tail butterfly {Papilto Machaon) is so rare with us as to leave considerable doubt whether it ever breeds here at all ; it is said that years ago it used to be constantly and consistently found ia 128