A HISTORY OF SUSSEX Anarsia genistae, Stt. Ditchling Common ; the larva feeding on Genista tinctoria Hypsolophus fasciellus, Hb. Abbots Wood, Poynings, Shaves Wood ; very local and not abundant — schmidiellus, Heyd. Arundel, Slindon ; abundant among Origanum — marginellus, Fb. Abundant on the downs round Worthing among juniper Sophronia parenthesella, Linn. Arundel Park, Cissbury, Ditchling Common, Guestling ; locally abundant especially on the downs Pleurota bicostella, CI. Ashdown Forest, Fern- hurst, Guestling, Hurston Warren ; abundant on heaths Harpella geoffrella, Linn. Guestling, Fern- hurst, Worthing ; abundant in hedge- rows Dasycera sulphurella, Fb. Generally abun- dant about dead trees and sticks — oliviella, Fb. Among dead wood, local ; Abbots Wood, Chichester, Guestling CEcophora minutella, Linn. Bognor, reared from birds' nests, Guestling ; St. Leonards Forest, beaten from thatch — fulviguttella, Z. Fernhurst, Goring Woods, among Angelica sylvestris ; Hastings, Slindon Common, reared from Silaus pratensis — tripuncta, Hw. Abbots JVood, Arlington, Burgess Hill, Guestling, JVolstonbury ; not rare — augustella, Hb. Hurstpierpoint ; not un- common on oak trunks — lunaris, Hw. Bognor on tree trunks, Bur- gess Hill on palings — lambdella, Don. Fairlight — tinctella, Hb. Abbots Wood, Broadwater ; not abundant — panzerella, Stph. Abbots Wood, Binsted Wood, Fernhurst, Guestling — unitella, Hb. A single specimen on a park paling, Broadwater (Fletcher) — flavifrontella, Hb. Abbots IVood, Fernhurst, Guestling, Houghton Forest, Rewel Wood — fuscescens, Hw. Bognor, reared from larvae feeding on dead leaves ; Fern- hurst, abundant in thatch ; Guestling — pseudospretella, Stt. Everywhere abun- dant Qilgoconia quadripuncta, Hw. Bramber, Bognor, Hastings, Worthing Endrosis lacteella, SchifF. Everywhere abun- dant Butalis grandipennis, Hw. Abbots Wood, Bex- hill, Ditchling Common, Fairlight, Hur- ston Warren, downs near Sompting ; abundant among gorsc Butalis senescens, Stt. Arundel Park, Clymping, Clapham Down, High Down ; abundant among Lotus and Thymus — fuscocuprea, Hw. Arundel Park and High Down with the preceding; abun- dant — laminella, H.S. Abundant in Arundel Park, the larvae feeding on Helianthe- mum Pancalia leuwenhoekella, Linn. Cissbury, Clapham Down ; abundant among Viola hirta, on which the larva feeds — latreillella. Curt. Brighton Downs Acrolepia granitella, Tr. Abbots Wood, Goring IFoods, Guestling ; abundant among Inula dysenterica — pygmasana, Hw. Abbots Wood, Bognor, Bramber, Broadwater ; abundant among Solanum Roeslerstammia erxlebella, Fb. Abbots Wood, Fernhurst, Hastings, Rewel Wood near Arundel Glyphipteryx fuscoviridella, Hw. Abundant everywhere in grassy places — thrasonella, Sc. Abundant generally among rushes, the variety cladiella, Stt., occurring in many localities with the type — equitella, Sc. JVorthing ; abundant in a garden among Sedum, perhaps im- ported with S. acre from the shingles near Shoreham — fosterella, Fb. Goring Woods ; not un- common among Carices, the larvae feeding in the fruit-spikes — fischeriella, Z. Widely distributed and generally abundant iEchmia dentella, Z. Not uncommon near Arundel, among Chaerophyllum temu- lentum ; also recorded from Hastings Perittia obscurepunctella, Stt. Botolphs, Broadwater, Ditchling Common, Fern- hurst, Guestling, North Ambersham, Slindon Heliozela sericiella, Hw. Oak woods, gener- ally abundant — hammoniella, Sorgh. Two moths swept off birch on Hurston Warren in June, I 890 ; mines of the larvae in birch leaves have been noticed abundantly in that locality, also at Rackham and in woods between Arundel and Slindon (Fletcher) — stanneella, Fisch. Chailey (Vine) — resplendella, Stt. Abbots Wood ; empty mines have been noticed in abundance in alder leaves in Tilgate Forest Douglasia ocnerostomella, Stt. Pett, shingles near Selsey and Shoreham ; very abun- dant among Echium 204
