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AN ANALYTICAL VIEW OF THE LEPIDOPTEROUS FAUNA OF 
HASLEMERE AND ITS VICINITY. 
BY CHARLES Q. BAEEETT. 
The neighbourliood of Haslemere, in which very small country 
wn I had the good fortune to reside for upwards of six years, is 
teresting as having been, in its entomological aspects, previously 
most unknown, although lying nearly midway between the London 
strict, the New Forest, and the Sussex downs and coast, all of which 
ve been more or less thoroughly worked, and because it includes 
ivated ground that in climate and botanical productions resembles 
tne parts of the north of England. The hills and heaths are on the 
ver greensand, and the vallies and oak-woods on the Wealden clay, 
B two formations occupying almost the entire district. 
The area over which I collected extends from six to ten miles in 
rious directions round Haslemere, and includes the woods and lanes 
^ards Godalming and round the village of Chiddingfold, and towards 
[dhurst, in Sussex ; the heathy hills and marshy vallies of Hindhead 
d Blackdown, a small portion of Hydon Heath, with its junipers, and 
3 wide heaths and boggy hollows of Milford Heath, in Surrey, and 
rt of Woolmer Forest, Hants, with its abundant fir woods. 
The total number of species of Lepidoptera observed in this district 
L,088, being nearly five-eighths of the whole number recorded as 
itish up to the present time. The various groups are, however, very 
equally respresented. 
Of the Diurni there are 42 species— two-thirds of the entire 
itish list, and, excluding Golias Hyale and Argynnis Aglaia, which 
)eared only in the past exceptional season, all may be called regular 
idents. None of the great rarities seem to have occurred, Apatura 
s, Limenltis Sibylla, Leucophasia sinapis, and NemeoUm Lucina being 
lut the best species. Colias Edusa is of uncertain appearance, and 
'er very common. Arge Qalathea and Lyc(Bna Corydon are very 
9, a singular contrast to the usual rule where they occur ; but this 
iccounted for by the absence of chalk. The extreme ' rarity of 
lynnis Aglaia seems inexplicable, as the country appears as though 
p,cially suited to it. Only two specimens, however, occurred. 
j Of Sphingidcs only 14 species— less than half the list— have been 
[id, the great deficiency being in the genus Sesia, of which but three 
|e been noticed, tipuliformis and culiciformis both rarely, and hemhe- 
rmis only by its burrows in the sallow poles. tSmerinthus tilice 
!ns to be absent,— probably from the scarcity of elms— and Gh(ero- 
