A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



Common in the 



Miana bicoloria, Vill. Everywhere common 



— arcuosa, Hw. Marshy places, not com- 



mon ; Abbots JVood^ Brighton, Hastings, 



Horsham, Hay-ward's Heath, Lewes ; 



rough ground near Castle Goring 

 Celaena haworthii, Curt. Rare ; recorded as 



taken at Brighton formerly, at Bexhill 



recently, Horsham 

 Grammesia trigrammica, Hufn. Generally 



common 

 Stilbia anomala, Hw. Rare and very local ; 



Fernhurst, Hastings, near Horsham, near 



Leives, once ; Tilgate Forest 

 Caradrina morpheus, Hufn. 



— alsines, Brahm. 



• tjL county 



— taraxaci, Hb. J ■' 



— ambigua, Fb. A few specimens have 



been taken by Mr. Vine on Brighton 

 Racecourse and near Shoreham ; one 

 was taken at ' sugar ' by Professor Mel- 

 dola at Pagham in 1 900 



— quadripuncta, Fb. Common 

 Rusina umbratica, Goeze. „ 



Agrotis vestigialis, Rott. Very local ; proba- 

 bly confined to the coast ; has been 

 taken on the Camber and Clymping 

 sandhills 



— puta, Hb. Not uncommon and generally 



distributed 



— ypsilon, Rott. Generally common 



— saucia, Hb. Periodically common and 



generally distributed 



— segetum, SchifF. Very abundant 



— exclamationis, Linn. „ „ 



— corticea, Hb. Not uncommon 



— cinerea, Hb. Not taken in great num- 



bers but widely distributed on the 

 chalk ; downs near Brighton, Clayton, 

 Goring, Lewes, Steyning, Polegate 



— ripse, Hb. Very local, confined to the 



coast sandhills. At Pagham, where the 

 larvas may sometimes be taken in large 

 numbers, the imago is rarely seen. Has 

 occurred also on the Camber and Clymp- 

 ing sandhills 



— nigricans, Linn. Not uncommon 



— tritici, Linn. Common on the downs at 



Brighton, appears to be less so else- 

 where ; reported also from Clymping, 

 Eastbourne, Horsham in gardens, Lewes^ 

 Pett, Thorney 



— aquilina, Hb. Scarce ; perhaps occurs 



more on the downs and less on the coast 

 than the last ; Brighton, Lewes, Shoreham 



— obelisca, Hb. Not rare at Shoreham (A. 



C. Vine) but seems so elsewhere ; Dr. 

 Allchin took one at Brighton in 1859 

 {Ent. JVeekly Intell. vii. 204), and Mr. 

 W. E. Nicholson has met with the 

 species at Lewes 



Agrotis agathina, Dup. The larvas are reported 

 as being common in Tilgate Forest and 

 would probably be found to be so 

 generally on Erica cinerea (bell heather), 

 if that plant were searched or swept 

 for them in late spring ; recorded also 

 from Ashdown Forest, Fernhurst, St. 

 Leonards Forest 



— strigula, Thnb. Common among ling, 



calluna, throughout the county 

 Noctua glareosa, Esp. Not common ; Abbots 

 IVood, Brighton, Fernhurst, GuestUng, 

 Hassocks, Hohnbush, Lewes 



— augur, Fb. Very local ; Brighton, woods 



near Horsham, and marshes near Lewes 



— plecta, Linn. ) Common and gener- 



— c-nigrum, Linn, j ally distributed 



— ditrapezium, Bork. Very local ; may be 



taken freely in the larval state from 

 birch and sallow in Tilgate Forest ; also 

 recorded from Cowfold, near Emszvorth 

 (2), Fernhurst, HaywardU Heath, Hor- 

 sham 



— triangulum, Hufn. Common, especially 



in woods 



— stigmatica, Hb. Seems generally rare in 



the county, but is reported by Mr. 

 Christy as not uncommon lately at 

 Stoughton ; rare in Charlton Forest (the 

 Rev. C. D. Ash) ; also reported as 

 having occurred at Hayward's Heath, 

 and once near Lewes 



— brunnea, Fb. "j Common, especially in 



— primulse, Esp. J woods 



— dahlii, Hb. Locally common in woods ; 



Abbots Wood, Battle, Brighton, near 

 Emsworth, GuestUng, Horsham, Lnves 



— rubi. View. Common and widely dis- 



tributed 



— umbrosa, Hb. Not uncommon 



— baja, Fb. „ „ 



— castanea, Esp. Very local ; Cocking, 



near Hastings, Laughton. Mr. Vine 

 states that the larvas may be taken 

 freely in Tilgate Forest. This would 

 most likely be the case in most of the 

 heathy places in the county. The 

 fact that many of these are not easily 

 worked by entomologists after dark 

 probably accounts for many moths 

 being observed less frequently than 

 would otherwise be the case 



— xanthographa, Fb. Common everywhere 

 Triplijena janthina, Esp. Generally com- 

 mon 



— fimbria, Linn. Not uncommon, especially 



in woods ; Abbots Wood, Battle, Brigh- 

 ton, Chichester, Cocking, Hastings, Hay- 

 ward''s Heath, Horsham, Laughton, 

 Lewes, Worthing 



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