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 INSECTS Many other interesting Kentish species might be referred to in detail if space permitted. The following Hst of the moths of Kent has been compiled partly from my own notes and partly from those kindly suppHed to me by Mr. Albert B. Farn, Mr. Charles Fenn, Mr. Edward Goodwin, Colonel Howard L. Irby, F.L.S., Dr. H. G. Knaggs, F.L.S., Captain Savile G. Reid, R.E., F.Z.S., Mr. J. W. Tutt, Mr. Sydney Webb and other residents in the county. I have also obtained assistance from Stainton's Manual and from the lists by Dr. Knaggs and Mr. Ullyett of the Lepidoptera of the Folkestone district. NOCTURNI 1 Procris statices, L. Sandwich,^ Chattenden, etc. — geryon,^ Hb. Folkestone — globulariae/ H.b „ Zygjena trifolii, Esp. Sandwich, Deal, Dover, Folkestone, Wye, etc. — lonicerae, Esp. Chattenden — filipendulas, L. Generally distributed and abundant at Deal, Dover, Folkestone, Wye, etc. Smerinthus ocellatus, L. "] Generally distri- — populi, L. buted, common in — tilias, L. J some places Acherontia atropos, L. Deal, Walmer, Dover, Folkestone, Lee, Eltham, West Wickham Sphinx convolvuli, L. Deal, Dover, Water- ingbury, Talding, Lee, Eltham, etc. ; common in 1898 and 1901 — ligustri, L. Generally distributed, com- mon in some places Deilephila galii, Schiff. Sandwich, Deal, St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, Folkestone, etc. ; rare — livornica, Esp. Dover, Folkestone ; very rare Chaerocampa celerio, L. Dover, Tenterden ; very rare — porcellus, L. Deal, Dover, Folkestone, Dartford, Greenhithe, etc. — elpenor, L. Deal, Dartford, Greenhithe, Erith, Tenterden ' I am especially indebted to Mr. Charles Fenn and to Capt. Savile Reid, R.E., for assistance in the compilation of this list, and to Mr. C. G. Barrett and Mr. Sydney Webb for icindly perusing the same and making additions and suggestions. — H. G. does not imply that a species does not occur else- where. A complete list of known localities would occupy far more space than can be spared for In- sects in a work like the present. — H. G. ^ These two species are included by Mr. Ullyett in his list of Folkestone Lepidoptera con- tained in his Rambles of a Naturalist round Folkestone, published in 1880, and Mr. Webb says that they still occurred in the district in 1 90 1. — H. G. Ch^rocampa nerii, L. Dover, Talding ; extremely rare Macroglossa stellatarum, L. Generally dis- tributed, some years very common — fuciformis, L. Blean Woods, Darenth, Maidstone, Wateringbury • scarce — bombyliformis, Och. Ham Marshes, Sandwich ; very local Sesia myopiformis, Bork. Eltham, Lee, Folke- stone ; common in gardens and among wild crab trees — culiciformis, L. Dartford, Bexley, Folke- stone, etc. ; not uncommon amongst birch trees — formiciformis, Esp. Dartford Marshes — chrysidiformis, Esp. The Warren, Folke- stone — ichneumoniformis, Fb. Folkestone, Dover, Deal, Canterbury, etc. — cynipiformis, Esp. Darenth, Bexley, Folke- stone, etc. — tipuliformis, Clerck. Generally common in gardens — allantiformis, Wd. Greenhithe, Chatten- den, Folkestone, Shepherdswell ; very rare — bembeciformis, Hb. Eltham, Bexley, Folkestone — apiformis, Clerck. Dartford, Watering- bury, Folkestone Zeuzera aesculi, L. Eltham, Greenhithe, Lewisham, Bromley, Talding, West Wickham Cossus ligniperda, Fb. Generally common Hepialus hectus, L. Generally abundant — lupulinus, L. „ „ — sylvinus, L. Lee, Greenhithe, Dover, Folke- stone, Talding ; not uncommon — velleda, Hb. Formerly common at Dar- enth ; occurs near Maidstone and Folke- stone — humuli, L. Generally common Limacodes testudo, SchifF. Darenth, Chatten- den Nola cucullatella, L. Generally common — cristulalis, Dup. Blean, Darenth, West Wickham^ Folkestone 187
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