A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



Depressaria heracliana, De Geer. Abundant 

 and generally distributed 



Psoricoptera gibbosella, Z. Abbots Wood, 

 Ewhurst, Henley Hill near Midhunt 



Gelechia vilella, Z. Tarring, the larvae feed- 

 ing in fruits of mallow growing at base 

 of walls 



— malvella, Hb. Banks of the Arun near 



Ford; the larvae in fruits of Althaea 

 officinalis 



— lentiginosella, Z. Ditchling Common, North 



Mundham ; abundant among Genista 

 tinctoria 



— velocella, Dup. Hunton JVarren, not 



common 



— fumatella, Dgl. Not uncommon on the 



Clytnping sandhills in July and August. 

 It may be turned out of the tufts of 

 coarse grasses by blowing into them. 

 This species is sunk as synonymous 

 with distinctella, Z., by Standinger 

 and Rebel. It is however abundantly 

 distinct and may probably be oppletella 

 (H.S., fig. 382) or perhaps nigricans 

 (Hein., p. 205). Until the question of 

 identity has been decided it is as well 

 to keep alive Douglas' name (Fletcher) 



— ericetella, Hb. Abundant and generally 



distributed among ling on heaths and 

 in woods 



— mulinella, Z. Everywhere common 



among gorse 



— sororculella, Hb. Abbots Wood, Burgess 



Hill, Chailey ; Goring Wood, Worthing, 

 not uncommon among sallows 



— virgella, Thnb. Ashdown and Tilgate 



Forests (Vine) 



— diffinis, Hw. Pett ; very abundant on 



the shingles near Shoreham 



— rhombella, SchifF. Abbots Wood 



— distinctella, Z. Very abundant on the 



sandhills at Clytnping in June and July ; 

 recorded also from the Hastings dis- 

 trict 



— celerella, Stt. Probably $ of the preceding 



species 



— mouffetella, Schiff. Generally distributed 



among honeysuckle in hedgerows 

 Bryotropha terrella, Hb. Everywhere abun- 

 dant in grassy places 



— desertella, Dgl. Extremely abundant on 



the Clymping sandhills, Camber sand- 

 hills, a single specimen on Hurston 

 Warren 



— senectella, Z. Very abundant on the 



Clymping sandhills and on the shingles 

 near Shoreham and Southiuick, occurs 

 also sparingly on a park paling at 

 Broadwater and in a brickpit at Burgess 

 Hill 



Bryotropha mundella, Dgl. Very abundant 

 on the sandhills at Clyinping 



— similis, Stt. Abundant on old walls at 



Bury, Ewhurst 



— affinis, Dgl. Near the fort, Clymping ; 



abundant on bank just east or entrance 

 to Shoreham Harbour 



— umbrosella, Z. Very abundant on the 



sandhills at Clymping ; portlandicella, 

 Richardson, which appears to be a form 

 of the ? of this species rather than of 

 mundella, to which it is attributed in 

 Standinger and Rebel's Catalogue, occurs 

 not unfrequently with the typical form. 

 On Hurston Warren a form occurs abun- 

 dantly in sandpits which differs from 

 the coast insect in being rather larger, 

 much blacker and more shiny-looking ; 

 it occurs also on Gritham Common 



— basaltinella, Z. On an old barn at 



Bury, Fernhurst 



— domestica, Hw. Widely distributed and 



abundant among moss on old walls 

 Lita acuminatella, Sircom. Arundel Park, 

 Cissbury, Salvington Down ; abundant 



— artemisiella, Tr. Abundant among wild 



thyme on the downs near Bramber 



— costella, Westw. Arundel, Bognor, Bram- 



ber, shingles near Shoreham, Worthing ; 

 abundant among Solanum 



— maculea, Hw. Abbots Wood, Cissbury, 



Burgess Hill, Fernhurst, Guestling, Rewel 

 Wood near Arundel 



— tricolorella, Hw. Abbots Wood, Burgess 



Hill, Durrington, Fernhurst, Guestling 



— semidecandrella, Threlfall. Very abun- 



dant on the sandhills, Clymping; also 

 occurs near the mouth of Shoreham 

 Harbour 



— leucomelanella, Z. Abundant on the 



shingles near Eastbourne and between 

 Brighton and Lancing among Silene 

 maritima 



— knaggsiella, Stt. Fernhurst, Guestling 



(Barrett) 



— marmorea, Hw. Very abundant on Clymp- 



ing Common, occurs also at Pett 



— obsoletella, Fisch. Abundant on the 



shingles of the coast; the larvae feeding 

 in fruit and stems of Atriplex hastata, 

 Clymping, Eastbourne, Worthing 



— instabilella, Dgl. Very abundant at Shore- 



ham and Lancing among Atriplex por- 

 tulacoides, and no doubt in all other 

 localities where the food plant abounds 



— salicorniae, Hering. Abundant at Lancing, 



the larvae feeding on Salicornia, Suaeda 

 and Spergularia 



— plantaginella, Stt. Lancing and Shoreham 



among Plantago coronopusand maritimus 



