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SUFFOLK
LEPIDOPTERA.
THE LEPIDOPTERA OF SUFFOLK. Second Supplement. BY THE REV. A. P. WALLER, M.A., F . E . S .
the year 1900, when the late rector E. N. Bloomfield of Guestling in Sussex, a Suffolk man, issued a First Supplement to his 1890 " Lepidoptera of Suffolk " comprising the species then known to occur in this County, no attempt, that I am aware of, has been made to bring our knowledge up to date. In the present Second Supplementary list of additions to the above very füll ones, the Macro-Lepidoptera will be few, but these are notable insects, especially the Leucania vitellina that Mr. Chester G. Doughty took at Gorleston. It is quite •otherwise with the Micro-Lepidoptera, for a large number of further kinds were recorded during at least the first decade of this Century. To Mr. Bloomfield I am indebted for notes and lists, which he occasionally sent me up to the time of his death in April, 1914 ; and I gladly acknowledge that, in following in his steps, it is mainly due to his energy and enthusiasm I have been able to get together such a füll list of additions. To our energetic Hon. Secretary I owemuch spade-work among the periodicals, and considerable details about the County in general. My thanks are also due to Colonel Nurse, formerly •of Timworth Hall, for sending me a list of species taken some years ago by him, mostly in West Suffolk and many of great rarity. For more recent information I have to thank the Bishop, Dr. Whittingham ; and, as his observations cover the last few years, they are of especial value upon that account.
SINCE
[Mr. Waller has considered it advisable here to retain nomenclature in accordance with the former Lists : such can be brought up to date, sec. Staudinger, etc., in a complete revised account of our Butterflies and Moths, which the Suff. Nat. Soc. hopes to publish in due course.—Ed.] RHOPALOCERA. Parnassius Apollo, Linn.—A mere visitant. One captured at Thorpe near Aldeburgh on 10 ix 1928 (Mrs. Webb ; cf. p. 13, supra). Anosia plexippns, Linn.—A mere visitant. Of the rare Monarch or " Milkweed Butterfly, I have seen a large specimen on the wing, but I had not my net, and so was unable to catch i t " (T. Barratt, Claremont, Felixstow, in " Country Side Mag." 29 ix 1906, p. 275 : where the Editor points out that this is an Indian species. [It extends to New Zealand, but has been several times