A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



especially plentiful on waste ground, in old chalk pits and on banks 

 by the left side of the London Road leading from Brighton to Clayton 

 near the mouth of the Patcham Tunnel. The Holly Blue (L. argiolus, 

 L.) is widely distributed and often abundant in gardens, woods and 

 hedgerows. It has in Sussex, as in Surrey and other metropolitan 

 counties, greatly increased in numbers of late years. The Duke of 

 Burgundy {Nemeobius lucina, L.) is very local, but abundant in New- 

 timber Copse near Poynings. It has also been reported from the 

 Holm Bush, from Horsham, Laughton, Plashet Wood, Slindon, and from 

 St. Leonards Forest and Tilgate Forest. The Grizzled Skipper {Syrich- 

 thus alveolus, Hb.) is generally distributed in woods and other suitable 

 localities, but is not often met with on the chalk hills. The Dingy 

 Skipper {I'hanaos tages, L.) is generally distributed throughout the 

 county and is sometimes abundant on the chalk hills. The Small Skip- 

 per (Hesperia liiiea, Fb.) and the Large Skipper [H. syhamis, Esp.) are 

 both generally distributed and common. The Silver Spotted Skipper 

 (H. comma, L.) is very local, but is abundant in Hollingbury Combe 

 between Brighton and Lewes, in Bible Bottom, on Cliife Hill and in 

 other localities near Lewes, and in several places between Eastbourne 

 and Seafard. It is also reported from Arundel Park, Cocking Down, 

 Kingley Vale and West Stoke. H. lineola^ Ochs., which is chiefly an 

 Essex species, has also been recorded from Kent and Sussex. I have 

 only taken it near Thorpe and Walton-on-the-Naze in east Essex. 



It is much to be regretted that owing to the claims of other subjects 

 no detailed account in narrative form of the moths of the county can be 

 found space for. The following list of species has been compiled by 

 Mr. Fletcher and Mr. J. H. A. Jenner partly from their own knowledge, 

 partly from records already pubhshed and from notes supplied to them 

 by myself, by Mr. Robert Adkin, F.E.S., Mr. Joseph Anderson, F.E.S., 

 the Rev. C. D. Ash, M.A., Mr. C. G. Barrett, F.E.S., the Rev. E. N. 

 Bloomfield, M.A., F.E.S., Mr. W. M. Christy, M.A., F.L.S., Mr. D. A. 

 Edgell, Mr. A. Lloyd, F.C.S., Mr. A. C. Vine and others. 



HETEROCERA 



Moths 



SPHINGES considerable numbers of the moth are 

 caught while hovering round flowers, 



The Death's-Head Hawk (Acherontia atropos, especially those of the petunia and 

 Linn.) is somewhat sporadic in appear- white tobacco (Nicotiana aflinis). The 

 ance. In some years large numbers of larvae and pupae are not often observed, 

 larvffi and pupae are found in potato but several were found by potato dig- 

 fields and gardens. The imago is gers in the county in the early autumn 

 much less commonly observed at large. of 1 90 1. 



The Convolvulus Hawk (Sphinx convolvuli, The Privet Hawk (S. ligustri, Linn.) Com- 



Linn.) Like the preceding is some- mon in most places 



what sporadic in appearance. Occurs [The Spurge Hawk (Deilcphila euphorbias, 



throughout the county. In some years Linn.) Mr. Jenner reports (Barrett, 



' Mr. Fletcher cites Meyrick's Brit. Lep. p. 3 58, and B.irrctt's Tir'it. Lrp. i. 282 as to the occurrence 

 of the species in Sussex. — H.G. 



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