312 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
well done. The vast amount of information contained in this 
bulky and well-turned-out volume (comprising 585 demy 8vo 
pages, illustrated with two coloured maps and sixty-four plates, 
thirteen of which are coloured) cannot fail to be of great practical 
value to those interested in cotton culture.—H. A. F. - 
West Sussex Lepidoptera. 
Tuer recently-issued Part (x.s., No. 5) of the ‘ Transactions of 
the Chichester and West Sussex Natural History and Micro- 
scopical Society’ contains a “List of Lepidoptera observed in 
West Sussex,” from the capable pen of Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, 
of Worthing. The list includes 35 Rhopalocera, 9 Sphinges, 
35 Bombyces, 70 Noctuew, 98 Geometre, 28 Pyralides, 12 Ptero- 
phori, 19 Crambi, 1417 Tortrices, and 239 Tinee. It is not a 
mere list of names, for in addition to localities it contains many 
interesting notes on various species, é.g., the decreasing numbers 
of Polyommatus phleas is attributed to the habit of farmers 
pulling the docks when the larve are feeding; would that the 
habit were general! The larve of Lycena argiolus “may be 
taken from umbels of Cornus sanguinea by beating or searching 
for them.” Under Cossus ligniperda we have, “‘ Saw 105 larvee 
taken out of one elm tree at Bersted Lodge, Bognor, one day in 
January, 1883.. Many were taken, by the dozen or score at a 
time, up to January, 1885, when tree was felled as the best 
way of destroying the remaining larve.” ‘The larve of Abraxas 
grossulariata are recorded as occurring “in numbers in 1885, on 
the evergreen Huonymus japonica, a rather strange food-plant.” 
Lobophora polycommata larve “may be found plentifully by 
hunting for leaves of Ligustrum vulgare with ovate pieces eaten 
from their edges.” Coremia unidentaria, “the red-banded form 
(Newman’s ‘ British Moths,’ p. 176), is commoner than the black- 
banded one near Worthing. I referred the former to C. ferrugata 
until in 1886 I bred both forms from eggs laid in 1885 by a 
specimen of the latter.” Anacampsis anthyllidella, “ The second 
brood of larvee feed with the larve of Lycena minima (alsus) in 
the pods of Anthyllis vulneraria.” And soon. ‘Two specimens 
of Cherocampa celerio are recorded from Chichester by Mr. 
Joseph Anderson, jun., at p. 48. This species is not included in 
Mr. Fletcher's list.—E. A. F. 
WEST, NEWMAN AND CO., PRINTERS, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON, E.C. 
