SUFFOLK LEPIDOPTERA
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As a postscript to my 1967 report I have to record that a perfect specimen of the Scarce Olive-tree Pearl (Palpita unionalis, HĂźbn.) appeared at M.V. light at Walberswick on the evening of 21st October and a further specimen on the morning of 23rd. This species described by Bryan P. Beirne in his "British Pyralid and Plume Moths" as a non-resident immigrant captured occasionally in the south coast counties of England from Kent to the Scilly Isles, has been taken in Norfolk, Essex, Glamorgan, and Cork, but no mention is made of it in the 1937 Memoire. It is therefore presumably another addition to the Suffolk list. T h e larva feeds on the white-flowered Jasmine (Jasminum officinale) and as both specimens were in such perfect condition, they had doubtless bred locally from immigrant parents earlier in the year.