INSECTS Swammerdamia lutarea, Hw. Arundel P,iri, JForthing ; abundant among haw- thorn — pyrella, Vill. Generally abundant among fruit trees in gardens and among haw- thorn in hedgerows Scythropia cratasgella, Linn. Abbots JVood, Burgess Hill ; abundant Hyponomeuta vigintipunctatus, Retz. A single specimen near the Royal Oak, Avisford, in 1887 (Fletcher) — plumbellus, Schiff. Clapham Woods, Hast- ings ; common among spindle on the downs round JVorthing — padellus, Linn. Very abundant among apple, blackthorn and hawthorn — cognatellus, Hb. Generally abundant where spindle occurs and sometimes found in shrubberies among Euonymus japonica — decemguttella, Hb. Near Shoreham, abun- dant ; once at Bognor Prays curtisellus, Don., and var. rustica, Hw. Widely distributed and not uncommon among ash Eidophasia messingiella, Fisch. Hedgerows between Berwick and Arlington, Burgess Hill, Guestling Plutella maculipennis, Curt. Everywhere abundant — porrectella, Linn. Bramber, Guestling, Worthing ; not uncommon in gardens — sequella, CI. Arundel Park and Rewel Wood, abundant ; St. John's Common, by roadside hedgerows — radiatella, Don. Very abundant in oak woods — parenthesella, Linn. Common in woods — sylvella, Linn. Abbots JVood, Arundel Park, Hassocks — alpella, SchifF. Guestling, Worthing — lucella, Fb. Abbots Wood, Guestling. The female is common in collections, but the male is very rare. Mr. Farren's collection contained two specimens. Standinger and Rebel's Catalogue states '(c? ignot)' — horridella, Tr. Abbots Wood Harpipteryx nemorella, Linn. Broadwater, Ore, Rewel Wood near Arundel, Sompting — xylostella, Linn. Generally distributed among honeysuckle Theristis mucronella, Sc. Fernhurst, Polegate ; abundant on the downs round Worthing among spindle Enicostoma lobelia, SchifiF. Abundant among blackthorn in hedgerows round High Down near Goring Phibaloceraquercana, Fb. Everywhere abun- dant Depressaria costosa, Hw. Abundant and generally distributed among gorse — flavella, Hb. Abundant and generally distributed — pallorella, Z. Abundant on the Steyning Downs — umbellana, Stph. Ashburnham, downs near Bramber, Fernhurst, Fairlight — assimilella, Tr. Abbots Wood, Fernhurst, Guestling, Tilgate Forest — nanatella, Stt. Chailey (Vine) — scopariella, Hein. Ditchling Common (V'nie), Hastings — atomella, Hb. Ditchli>ig Common {Fletcher) — arenella, SchifF. Generally distributed — propinquella, Tr. Clapham Woods, Fern- hurst — subpropinquella, Stt. Fairlight, Shoreham, jrorthing — alstrcemeriana, CI. Brighton Doiuns, Fern- hurst, Guestling, hangers near Shoreham — purpurea, Hw. Fernhurst, Guestling, Hard- ham — liturella, Hb. Guestling ; abundant round Worthing — conterminella, Z. Hassocks, abundant — angelicella, Hb. Goring IVoods, Guestling — cnicella, Tr. Camber and Clymping sand- hills — carduella, Hb. Clapham Woods, Fairlight, Tarring — ocellana, Fb. Burgess Hill, Ditchling Com- mon, Fernhurst, Guestling — - yeatiana, Fb. Clapham Common, Guestling ; Shoreham, abundant — applana, Fb. Everywhere abundant — ciliella, Stt. Abbots Wood, Brighton coast, Fernhurst, Goring, Guestling, Hardham — zephyrella, Hb. Steytiing Downs {Gn?ax, Vine) — rotundella, Dgl. Eastbourne, Fairlight, Steyning Downs — albipunctella, Hb. Fernhurst — discipunctella, H.S. Felpham (Guermon- prez), Guestling (Bloomfield) — pulcherrimella, Stt. Burpham, Cissbury, Bramber, Ditchling, Salvington ; common among Bunium flexuosum — douglasella, Stt. Fairlight, Shoreham — weirella, Stt. Broadivater, Cissbury ; larvae on Chaerophyllum temulentum and Peucedanum sativum — chaerophylli, Z. Fernhurst, Guest ling. Wor- thing — ultimella, Stt. Lewes (Vine) — nervosa, Hw. Burgess Hill, Fernhurst, Guestling, Hardham ; locally abundant — badiella, Hb. Arundel Park, Cissbury, Hastings, Salvington Down ; not un- common DI 26
