respectively, had also especially collected material throughout the year for the author. Between them they 

 had brought together a fine representation of the moths from their area, in the process compiling many 

 interesting and some new records for Sark. The Guernsey naturalist and author N. Jee, who for 30 years was 

 the biology master at Elizabeth College, and later held a number of eminent posts on the island, contributed 

 an article in a July issue of the Guernsey Press on the hawk-moths of Guernsey. 



Early papers appearing in 2002 concerning interesting finds for 2001, included R.A. Austin's 

 Report from coastal stations for Guernsey (2002(15): 47-48) which introduced to the islands the species 

 Megalographa biloba (Stephens). P.D.M. Costen produced two articles concerning Dryobota labecula 

 (Esper) and Megalographa biloba (Stephens) (2002(15): 80-81), and D. Moore on yet a further additional 

 species for the islands in the form of Agwtis graslini Rambur (2002( 16): 29). D.J. Wedd's account of a visit 

 to Jersey in 2001 (2002(17): 47-49) included the events of National Moth Night held in Samares Manor, an 

 event instigated by R. & M.L. Long and R.V.M. Burrow which attracted both adults and children to partake 

 in the capture and immediate identification of the night flying insects attracted to m/v lights set up for the 

 occasion. The event gained genuine educational value and instigated useful public relations for the cause of 

 entomological studies. 



Two fine papers illustrating and covering the identification of Dioryctria sylvestrella (Ratzeburg) 

 were published in 2002 by M.S. Parsons & S. Clancy (2002(15): 16-19), and M.S." Parsons & J. Radford 

 (2002(53): 137-142). In 2004 a very fine paper was published by P.H. Sterling, S.J.C. Koster & P.D.M. 

 Costen and unusual for papers concerning the Channel Islands, was finely illustrated with the adult and 

 genitalia for both sexes by S.J.C. Koster. It concerned the discovery in 2002 of Pyroderces argyrogrammos 

 (Zeller) in Guernsey by P.D.M. Costen. 



In 2002 further contributions were forthcoming from M.J. & H.E. Bull during our visit to Sark in 

 April and again in September, during which periods further useful collecting was undertaken and several 

 new additions were discovered for the island. 



From unpublished lists produced in 2002 applying to earlier records, an unpublished checklist of 

 Channel Islands Lepidoptera was written up by C. David and circulated within the islands. A copy was 

 kindly made available through the Societe Sercquiaise and has been analysed for this present work. Within 

 the checklist, the occurrence on individual islands had been noted. From this listing it was evident that many 

 species were new to the islands as a whole, and a number being new records from some individual islands, 

 particularly those marked as unpublished records from Jersey. None of the additional species records have 

 yet been published. The checklist is planned as forming part of a forthcoming book being produced by R. 

 Brehaut, R. Long and C. David. The limited available information on additional species and island records 

 that this checklist provided has been here noted. It is to be supposed that all of these records are based upon 

 a backlog of material that has long awaited identification. Hopefully the data on these records will be 

 published in the aforementioned book, or at least written up in the Annual Reports for the two Channel 

 Islands. 



Though it was originally intended to finish this survey with records from the year 2002, work on 

 the manuscript continued into 2003. Two visits to the islands in 2003, commencing with one in April to May 

 and a second from June to July, showed that the seasons were producing some astonishing results. The two 

 visits provided records and voucher material from Guernsey, Sark and Herm, which between them produced 

 256 species. Included were 2 additional species for the Channel Islands, 20 first island records for Sark and 

 14 for Herm, adding between them specimens of 25 new voucher species. A three-day collecting trip to 

 Herm by D.J. Wedd at the end of July enabled him to operate a light-trap around the island. His visit 

 provided further proof that the long dry summer season of 2003 had been very beneficial for Lepidoptera. 

 His yet unpublished Lepidoptera records covered 184 species, out of which an additional 70 species proved 

 to be first records for Herm. A typed list of his records was sent to A.G. Heyworth on Herm by P.D.M. 

 Costen, and was kindly forwarded to me by P. Heyworth. My complete records for 2003 will have to form 

 part of an additional paper to be published separately from this present work. Several short notes published 

 in 2003 covering some exceptional finds for the season, plus confirmation on new species from earlier years, 

 indicated that collecting on both Guernsey and Jersey had also produced some exceptional new records. 

 These will undoubtedly be listed in the forthcoming annual reports for 2003. The net result of the additional 

 records so far known from 2003 brings the total number of Lepidoptera for the Channel Islands to 1315 

 species and subspecies. 



With collecting and recording continuing unabated, it is to be expected that new additions to the 

 Channel Islands as a whole and to individual islands in particular, will always be forthcoming. New 

 additions will certainly be derived from each season's collecting, but continuous investigations of un worked 

 accessions will reveal overlooked species. Much investigation is needed to verify the identities of old 

 material, preferably by dissection and subsequent authoritative examination. It is to be expected that these 

 investigations will lead to the discovery of numbers of misidentifications and that changes to the presently 

 accepted checklist will inevitably result. 



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