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18. — Actebia Praecox, Linn. — Duddingston, August. 



19. — Agrotis valligera^ W. V. — Musselburgh Links, along with Tritici, 

 Cursoria, and Funiosa, August. 



20. — Gelechia Anthyllidella, Hub. — Eo. Loc. 



21. — Gelechia marmorea, Haw. — Eo. Loc, a single specimen. 



22.— Gelechia ■ ■ ?— Eo. Loc. 



23.— Gelechia ?— Eo. Loc. 



24. — Xanthia flavagO, Fah. — Ravelrig Bog, among birches, Mr. Alexander 

 Logan, August, 



25. — Tinea ferruginella. Hub. — Leith, Mr. Campbell. 



In the previously-published list there are a few errors, which it will be as 

 well to correct here. Page 127, Hadena splendens should be H. Pisi, var. 

 splendens, S^.j page 142, dele Eupideria carbonaria altogether; page 144, for 

 Leptogmmma Uttorana read L. Uterana; page 144, for Peronea asperana read 

 P. aspersana; page 146, Eupcecilia ambiguana? should be E. atricapitana, St., 

 Brit. Mus. Cat. J and page 146, Eudorea Uneola should be E. murana, Curt. 



Duddingston, Edinburgh, February 21sf., 1853. 



LIBELLULINyE OBSERVED IN SUSSEX, CHIEFLY IN THE 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LEWES. 



BY W. C. UNWIN, ESQ. 



It has been remarked by some that mere local lists are comparatively 

 useless, but an enthusiastic admirer of nature and poetic writer, who has 

 gazed upon nature not only with eyes of love but of philosophy, remarks 

 ^^that every one who assists to turn the attention of our youth to subjects 

 which must lead them into the country, be he the merest plodder, the merest 

 arranger of other men's knowledge, the merest cataloguer of names, does a 

 good service." With this apology I may be pardoned for trespassing on the 

 pages of "The Naturalist" with another of my ^^local lists," representing a 

 tribe of beautiful insects, of which rarely a notice creeps into any of the 

 journals devoted to Natural History — the active and elegant family of 

 Libellulince . 



The species subjoined in the following list have either been observed or 

 captured by myself in Sussex, principally in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Lewes; and, although I am far from supposing it is a complete list, it is a 

 faithful and correct record of the results of many pleasant and happy hours 

 spent with nature in her solitudes, and the contemplation of her varied 

 beauties. It may be the few brief observations here noted will not be without 

 their use or interest to some youthful entomologist, as an introduction to 

 his studying this small portion of nature's gems among the productions of 

 his district. Although the larvae of these insects inhabit the water, (the 

 economy of which is highly interesting and truly wonderful,) yet in the imago 



