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 A HISTORY OF SUSSEX ScoLYTiD^ {continued) Scolytid.*: (continued) Phloeophthorus rhododactylus, Marsh. Pityogenes bidentatus, Herbst. Hastings Hastings district, Rusper, Eastbourne district Cryphalus abietis, Ratz. Cowfold, Shipley, Trypodendron domesticum, L. Hastings, Laughton ; rare Lewes — fagi, Nord. Guest/ing, rare Xyleborus dispar, F. Jshburnham Pityophthorus pubescens, Marsh. Pepper- — saxeseni, Ratz. Hastings district ing Platypus cylindrus, F. Shipley near Hor- Xylocleptes bispinus, Duft. Eastbourne, sham (Gorham) Lewes Stylopid^ Dryocaetes villosus, F. Hastings district Stylops melittz, Kirby. Common on Tomicus laricis, F, Midhurst, Lewes Andrena in the Hastings district LEPIDOPTERA RHOPALOCERA AND HETEROCERA Butterflies and Moths Sussex with its numerous forests and woodlands, moors and marshes, its chalk downs, and its extensive coast line, is almost as rich in species of Insecta as Kent or Hampshire. As in the adjoining counties last mentioned the numbers of species and specimens are, and have been for some years past, decreasing with the destruction of old forests and other woods, and the increase of cultivation and buildings. The county how- ever still contains a number of interesting and local species, though there are fewer immigrants from the continent than in Kent. As in other EngUsh counties the Black- veined White butterfly [Aporia cratcegi, L.), which was formerly abundant, has long disappeared, and that beautiful moth the Kentish Glory {Endromis versicolor, L.), so plentiful thirty or forty years ago in Tilgate Forest near Balcombe, and in St. Leonards Forest, between Three Bridges and Horsham, has been long extinct. RHOPALOCERA Butterjiies^ The Wood White {heiicophasia sinapis, L.) was formerly plentiful near Faygate and elsewhere in St. Leonards Forest in the north of the county. I have taken it in Abbots Wood and in the adjoining woods near Hailsham years ago, but I have not seen it in the county since 1877 or 1878. It has been recorded from Bolney Wood, French- lands Woods, Ashington, Tilgate Forest, Denne Park, Rotherfield, from near Cocking and elsewhere in the county. The Black-veined White {Aporia cratcegi, L.) was formerly common in many parts of the county, but it has been extinct for more than thirty years. The late but if it ever occurred there it has been long extinct as a resident species in the county. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher of Bognor says that ' the single specimens occasionally seen in the county have probably escaped from captivity. Those recorded as having occurred in Dorsetshire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Guernsey in 1900 {Ent. xxxiii. 267, 303 ; Ent. Rec. xii. 273) may possibly have been immigrants, as m,iy also have been those found in 1876 and 1877 near Brighton and Lewes {Ent. ix. 230, x. 285).' At the present day the species in a truly wild condition in this country is confined to Wickcn Fen, Cambridgeshire, and to the fens in the Norfolk Broads. — H. G. 164
 * The Swallow Tail {Papilio machaon, L.) is said to have been formerly common near Pulborough ;