186 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
THE TORTRICES OF SURREY, KENT, AND SUSSEX. 
By Watrer P. Weston. 
‘Tue south-eastern corner of England, either from its proximity 
to the metropolis or on account of its being easier of access than 
more distant localities, is, I think, more extensively worked by 
entomologists than any other district of equal extent ; and though 
the lists of rarities and of species occurring in these counties are 
very long, still much more remains to be done before we can 
claim to have exhausted their entomological fauna. ‘There are 
extensive districts that have never been worked, except in the 
most casual way, which would well repay the collector who was 
bold enough to search out a fresh locality for himself instead of 
visiting the same places and taking the same insects season after 
season. But to do this completely would require a long sojourn, 
or at least constant visits, as it is only by continual working for 
several years that one is able to form anything approaching a 
tolerably complete idea of the different species occurring in any 
locality. : 
Amongst the entomologists who devote their attention to 
~these counties a very large proportion are exclusively Macro- 
lepidopterists, who, from want of time or inclination, pass over 
the groups of smaller insects entirely without notice. I have 
frequently been informed by beginners and others that this is due 
in a great measure to the difficulties of setting and nomenclature, 
though perhaps the latter would apply more to the group under 
our present notice, as there is no complete work on the Tortrices 
that can in any way compare with Mr. Stainton’s careful treatise 
on the Tineina. For although Mr. Wilkinson’s work and Mr. C. 
G. Barrett's ‘“‘ Notes on the Tortrices” are of the greatest use to 
the student, yet the former is sadly in need of a supplement to 
carry its information down to the present time; and the latter, 
from the broken form in which they have: appeared, are not so 
easily available as to be of much assistance to the beginner. 
In the hope of inducing some of my readers to devote more 
attention to this most interesting and by no means difficult group, 
I have endeavoured to make out a list of the species occurring in 
these counties, which are exceedingly rich, a very large proportion 
of our total number of species occurring in them. 
