314 THE entomologist's record. 



town some 30 miles behind Rouen, almost directly opposite East- 

 bourne, and only some 110 miles distant therefrom. It is remarka- 

 ble that a place, not much further distant from Hastings and Brighton 

 than is Cambridge, should boast of a fauna that appears to us almost 

 incredible. Among the Diurni recorded are — Papilio podalirin^, P. 

 uiachaon, Aporia crataet/i, Pieris daplidice (uncertain as with us), 

 Apatiira ilia, Melitaea cin.via, il. phoehe, singly ; M. parthenie, as a 

 double-brooded species distinct from M. athalia, Brenthis dia, regularly 

 in two broods ; laaoria lat/ionia, Hipparchia briseis, singly ; H. 

 rt/v^/i/^sf/, abundant in one locality; Pararge niaera, regu.\?iv\y double- 

 brooded ; P. achine, very common locally ; Coenononympha arcania, 

 common; Thecla ilicis, very common; C'hri/soj)hani(s dorilis, double- 

 brooded, rather rare ; Polyominatm baton, singly; Nomiades seuiianjua, 

 rather common ; X. cyllarus, singly ; Spilothyrus alceae, common ; S. 

 altheae, uncertain ; Syrichthiif; alveiis, rather common. 



It is well worthy of consideration, that this list, containing as it 

 does such a large number of species of butterflies, enumerating the 

 lepidopterous fauna merely of a district for eight miles around a small 

 town, and comparable with many a town and district in Sussex 

 or Hampshire, apparently lacks only Apatiira iris, ( 'oenonynipha 

 tipliou, T/ieda ir-albiini, and T. pruni of the whole of the present British 

 butterfly fauna, produces many species abundantly that are with us 

 quite rare, and has sixteen species that the most sanguine lepidop- 

 terist could not admit into the genuinely native British list. 



Among the moths also are many notable species, e.y., Hyloicua 

 pinastri, rare ; Hylcs eapliorbiae, rare ; Hoplitis in ilhaiiseri, not uncommon ; 

 Portlietria dispar, abundant ; Odonestis pruni, a single example ; 

 Dendrolimiis pini, a single example ; Aylia tan, moderately common ; 

 Thyris feneHtrella, rare; Leucairia l-albuni, very common ; L. albipnmta, 

 very common; jSIellinia Dcellaria, rare; Orrhodia erythrocephala, 

 generally rare ; (K van-pimctatioii, rare; Xylena furcifera, rare; Calo- 

 phatiia lunula, Pseudophia lunaris, singly ; Aplasta ononaria, rare ; 

 T/ialera timbrialis, Acidalia viacilentaria, rather common ; A. huiniliata, 

 A. punctata, Kphyra ruficiliaria, Rlwdostropliia cibiciaria, rare ; 

 Lythria purpuraria, rather common ; OrtlioUtha inoeniata, rare ; 

 AstJiena anseraria, one example ; EupitJiecia iiiillefoliata, Phihalapteryx 

 aquata, rare ; Metrocauipa hoiioraria, rare ; Tlianmonuuia contain inaria, 

 rather common ; Dysauxes ancilla, rare ; Anthrocera pnrpuralis, rather 

 common; A. acJiilleae, not rare; A. transalpina, I'Sbthev common; A. 

 carniolica, rather common ; Pacliytelia unicolor, ^Hyeria empiformia, etc. 



Compared with our British list, the Macro-lepidoptera are relatively 

 poor, yet the above species, exceedingly rare, or altogether absent, in 

 Britain, afibrd ample food for reflection. Those micro-lepidopterists 

 who wish to make a similar comparison, and push the latter home to 

 its logical conclusion, cannot do better than carefully study the 

 details that M. Dupont furnishes. 



Synopsis of the Orthoptera of Western Europe. 



By MALCOLM BUEE, B.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 The entire absence of any work in the English language which 

 would enable a collector to identify his captures, the inaccessibility of 

 reference collections, and the confusion that generally reigns in them, 



