A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



ScoLYTiD^ {continued) Scolytid.*: (continued) 



Phloeophthorus rhododactylus, Marsh. Pityogenes bidentatus, Herbst. Hastings 



Hastings district, Rusper, Eastbourne district 



Cryphalus abietis, Ratz. Cowfold, Shipley, Trypodendron domesticum, L. Hastings, 



Laughton ; rare Lewes 



— fagi, Nord. Guest/ing, rare Xyleborus dispar, F. Jshburnham 



Pityophthorus pubescens, Marsh. Pepper- — saxeseni, Ratz. Hastings district 



ing Platypus cylindrus, F. Shipley near Hor- 



Xylocleptes bispinus, Duft. Eastbourne, sham (Gorham) 



Lewes Stylopid^ 



Dryocaetes villosus, F. Hastings district Stylops melittz, Kirby. Common on 



Tomicus laricis, F, Midhurst, Lewes Andrena in the Hastings district 



LEPIDOPTERA 



RHOPALOCERA AND HETEROCERA 



Butterflies and Moths 



Sussex with its numerous forests and woodlands, moors and marshes, 

 its chalk downs, and its extensive coast line, is almost as rich in species 

 of Insecta as Kent or Hampshire. As in the adjoining counties last 

 mentioned the numbers of species and specimens are, and have been for 

 some years past, decreasing with the destruction of old forests and other 

 woods, and the increase of cultivation and buildings. The county how- 

 ever still contains a number of interesting and local species, though there 

 are fewer immigrants from the continent than in Kent. As in other 

 EngUsh counties the Black- veined White butterfly [Aporia cratcegi, L.), 

 which was formerly abundant, has long disappeared, and that beautiful 

 moth the Kentish Glory {Endromis versicolor, L.), so plentiful thirty or 

 forty years ago in Tilgate Forest near Balcombe, and in St. Leonards 

 Forest, between Three Bridges and Horsham, has been long extinct. 



RHOPALOCERA 



Butterjiies^ 



The Wood White {heiicophasia sinapis, L.) was formerly plentiful 

 near Faygate and elsewhere in St. Leonards Forest in the north of the 

 county. I have taken it in Abbots Wood and in the adjoining woods 

 near Hailsham years ago, but I have not seen it in the county since 

 1877 or 1878. It has been recorded from Bolney Wood, French- 

 lands Woods, Ashington, Tilgate Forest, Denne Park, Rotherfield, 

 from near Cocking and elsewhere in the county. The Black-veined 

 White {Aporia cratcegi, L.) was formerly common in many parts of the 

 county, but it has been extinct for more than thirty years. The late 



* The Swallow Tail {Papilio machaon, L.) is said to have been formerly common near Pulborough ; 

 but if it ever occurred there it has been long extinct as a resident species in the county. Mr. W. H. B. 

 Fletcher of Bognor says that ' the single specimens occasionally seen in the county have probably escaped 

 from captivity. Those recorded as having occurred in Dorsetshire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Guernsey 

 in 1900 {Ent. xxxiii. 267, 303 ; Ent. Rec. xii. 273) may possibly have been immigrants, as m,iy also 

 have been those found in 1876 and 1877 near Brighton and Lewes {Ent. ix. 230, x. 285).' 



At the present day the species in a truly wild condition in this country is confined to Wickcn Fen, 

 Cambridgeshire, and to the fens in the Norfolk Broads. — H. G. 



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