CAMBERWELL BEAUTIES, THE SCARCE CHOCOLATE TIP AND OTHER LEPIDOPTERA IN SUFFOLK DÜRING 1976 BARON DE W O R M S W H E N 1 wrote in my last account of lepidoptera in Suffolk that 1975 was one of the most remarkable years on record for warmth and insects in general, I hardly expected that 1976 would outshine it in every sense, since the heat and profusion of butterflies and moths have made this season in some ways the best since the war and possibly indeed of the Century. It will be remembered above all too for the amazing immigration of the Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa Linn.) which seems to have swept across the North Sea from Scandinavia and reached our eastern seaboard soon after the middle of August. My first news of its presence in this country was the receipt of a very exciting account from Mr. Peter Täte, essentially an ornithologist, who was staying at Frostenden. He said he was Walking along the High Street at Southwold on August 21st when a large butterfly flipped over his Shoulder and he was amazed to see its bright yellow border. He had little doubt as to its identity. Mr. George Baker saw one alive shortly afterwards at Reydon, while his granddaughters also saw one at Henham Park. Whether these could have been the same specimen observed by Mr. Täte is problematical and unlikely. I understand this fine insect was also seen at Pakefield and Kessingland. There may be some other records for Suffolk, since the Eastern Counties seem to have had the biggest part of the invasion with over twenty sightings in the sister county of Norfolk. Elsewhere I have mentioned the probable total tally throughout the British Isles of the Camberwell Beauty and referred to its past history in this country, including a similar Visitation in 1872 when the butterfly reappeared the following spring. There may well be a repetition of this phenomenon in 1977.
Another most important record for the county was the capture in a light-trap near Southwold on August 4th, 1976, of a specimen of the Scarce Chocolate-tip (Clostera anachoreta Schiff.). Mr. Julian Clarke teils me he found it hiding in a crevice below a window ledge quite close to the trap. This moth which was taken and bred in some numbers at the end of the last Century has virtually died out in England and there have been only a handful of records in the last sixty years. I have summed up its history in the British Isles in the pages of these Transactions after the late Canon Waller took a specimen at Waldringfield in 1956. I am not aware of another for Suffolk tili the one just recorded and possibly only two or three others, mostly in Kent, in the last twenty years. Perhaps this insect will establish itself again with us. Mr. Clarke mentions that he also saw at Southwold the