L.H. Newman collects butteiflies for Lord Rothschild 



From April to October 1931, L.H. Newman (1931: 184-186, reprinted in 1931: 153-156) collected 

 butterflies in the island of Sark for the Lord Rothschild collection, which eventually came to form a part of 

 the Lepidoptera collections at the British Museum [Natural History]. Newman's contribution was of major 

 interest, as he provided a reasonable series for nearly every species he encountered, which covered 25 out of 

 the 28 species already listed by Luff for Sark. Because of the long period over which he collected, it enabled 

 Newman to establish the proof that many species on the island had two or even three broods per year. 



Comprehensive contributions by A.C. Halliwell 



In 1933 A.C. Halliwell embarked upon a more comprehensive survey of the Jersey Lepidoptera, 

 commencing with an account of the butterflies (1933a: 110-117) and listed 38 species of which 3 were noted 

 as extinct and 6 as rare or accidental visitors. Part 2, covered the families Sphingidae, Notodontidae, 

 Thyatiridae, Lymantriidae, Lasiocampidae, Saturniidae, Drepanidae and Arctiidae (1934a: 305-314) 

 covering 62 species. Part 3, consisted of the Noctuidae (1935a: 383-394) listing 147 species. Part 4, dealt 

 with the Geometridae (1937a: 141-152) and listed 132 species. Part 5, covered the microlepidoptera in 

 general (using a very out of date family classification that contained inaccuracies) (1940a: 21-26) listing 131 

 species. 



R.S. McDonogh on species ofLuffia 



A paper published by R.S. McDonogh on the morphology of species of Luffia (1941: 191-209), 

 stood out in the Lepidoptera as the only in depth generic study that involved material from the Channel 

 Islands, it delved into the comparative anatomy, biology and basic taxonomy of the genus. Though some 

 aspects still required some clarification, McDonogh established that both species ferchaultella and lapidella 

 occurred in the Channel Islands (See also I. Sims: 30). 



Wartime occupation years, but Entomology persists with C.J. Shay er and W.J. Le Quesne 



From the time of R.H. Le Pelley's 1928 annual report on Lepidoptera for the Guernsey Bailiwick 

 covering the year 1927, accounts of the annual records for this group in the Bailiwick ceased for many years. 

 A few odd scraps of information were written up in the Societe Guernesiaise (1935: 125-126), consisting of 

 a few notes on butterflies by V.E. Carey based on information received from A. Girard. In 1940 a short 

 account was published by P.J. Girard from the years 1938 and 1939, (1940: 242-243), dealing with some 

 pest species of economic importance. During the German Occupation years of the 2nd World War, there 

 was, as C.J. Shayer pointed out in 1945, a problem in pursuing the study and collecting of the nocturnal 

 moths due to imposed restrictions, this especially affected the richest field for study, the cliff areas, which 

 could not be worked. The most that could be achieved under these conditions was the beating of herbage for 

 moths in daytime and observations on butterflies in the inland fields. Apart from Le Pelley's report of 1928, 

 for the intervening years, even from before the War, little or nothing had been done in maintaining records. 

 When in 1945 C.J. Shayer wrote 'Some notes on Macro-lepidoptera of Guernsey, 1942' (1945: 373-375), the 

 feeling was that the whole process of recording was starting afresh. With the continuity of the work 

 interrupted, it was unknown if many of the earlier recorded species were now extinct, or how many species 

 may have since established residence. Apart from anything else, contact with the entomologists in Jersey 

 was also severely hampered. In 1945 therefore, contact with the Jersey entomologists Halliwell and Le 

 Quesne, meant an exchange of lepidopterous information. In 1944, W.J. Le Quesne wrote up a report on the 

 Junior Members for butterflies and moths in Jersey (1944: 168-169), which showed that apart from the 

 established recorders on the island, there was also, commendably, a Junior Section founded in 1943, a small 

 but active contingent enthusiastically recording in Entomology. During 1945 he updated this report with 

 'The work of the junior section in the butterflies and moths section 1944' (1945: 181-182). Also, in 1945 

 W.J. Le Quesne wrote short notes for English journals on Jersey Lepidoptera. 



C.J. Shayer in Guernsey and W.J. Le Quesne in Jersey revive recording in the Channel Islands 



In a fine effort to bring back some continuity to Lepidoptera recording for Guernsey, C.J. Shayer in 

 1946 wrote up reports for the years 1943-1945 in three separate reports (1946: 395-398, 1946a: 398-401 and 

 1946b: 401-405), with some detailed information given on all the species covered. He also contributed short 

 notes on Guernsey Bailiwick Lepidoptera to English journals. For the same reasons that affected Guernsey, 

 in 1946 W.J. Le Quesne wrote one report to cover the years 1940-1945 in Jersey (1946: 198-202). W.J. Le 

 Quesne was recognized as a leading entomologist in Jersey, and in 1946 published a paper 'The butterflies 

 of Jersey' (1946a: 22-23). C.J. Shayer in Guernsey and W.J. Le Quesne in Jersey, took over as the main 

 recorders for their respective Bailiwick's, and published the annual reports for the Societe Guernesiaise and 

 Jersiaise. In 1947, for the annual report of 1946, Le Quesne was delighted to add a new butterfly for the 

 Jersey fauna. The species was discovered in 1946 on three independent occasions by two English boys 



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