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the Mncro-Lepidoptera, Pi/ralites, Cramhites and Pterophorina, aud 

 enriched with notes of the habits of the species ; and there is in the 

 Magazine of Natural History, 1832, a list of 45 species of butterflies 

 occurring in the neighbourhood of Dover, with full and numerous 

 notes on their varieties, by the Eev. W. T. Bree, M.A., showing clearly 

 that the richness of that district in butterfly aberrations was then fully 

 as great as it is now. 



For Sussex also I find no genei-al list, but the county is rather 

 more fully represented — 



In the " Proceedings of the Eastbourne Natural History Society," 

 1885 — 6, is a list of the Macro- Lepidopf era of East Sussex, numbering 

 about 600 s])ecies, with localities, by Mr. J. H. A. Jenner, drawn up 

 with considerable care and general accuracy. 



A similar list, but including notices of the habits of many of the 

 species, and extending to the Tineina, for West Sussex, was drawn up 

 some years ago by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, M.A., and printed for him 

 at Bognor, but without date. This extends to between 600 and 700 

 species, and is more especially complete in the smaller families. 



Eor the district round Hastings and St. Leonard's the E,ev. E. N. 

 Bloomfield, M.A., has recorded the results of his own collecting and 

 that of friends for many years, producing a catalogue of upwards of 1000 

 species. This, as a matter of course, includes a very large number of 

 Micro-Lepidoptera, and has been drawn up with extreme care as to 

 accuracy, but does not furnish any further information except as to 

 the relative rarity or commonness of the species. It is contained in the 

 " Natural History of Hastings and St. Leonard's and the vicinity," 

 1878, and two Supplements, 1888 and 1888, and published by the 

 Hastings and St. Leonard's Philosophical and Historical Society. 



I cannot find that any general list exists anywhere for either of 

 the rich counties of Surrey and Hants. This is the more astonishing, 

 since the latter county contains those two localities celebrated above 

 all others, the New Forest and the Isle of Wight, while the former is 

 that probably most frequented by London entomologists. I have my 

 own list of something like 1100 species found in the Haslemere dis- 

 trict (which extends into Surrey, Hants and Sussex), but otherwise 

 am obliged to depend for those two counties upon the multitudes of 

 captures recorded in this and other Magazines. 



Dorsetshire is better provided. It seems that a first edition of 

 the " Lepidoptera of Dorsetshire " was published in 1886 by the 

 Dorset Field Club ; this I have not seen. Mr. C. W. Dale's second 

 edition of the same, brought out by himself, reaches the dimensions of 



