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 A HISTORY OF SUSSEX Depressaria heracliana, De Geer. Abundant and generally distributed Psoricoptera gibbosella, Z. Abbots Wood, Ewhurst, Henley Hill near Midhunt Gelechia vilella, Z. Tarring, the larvae feed- ing in fruits of mallow growing at base of walls — malvella, Hb. Banks of the Arun near Ford; the larvae in fruits of Althaea officinalis — lentiginosella, Z. Ditchling Common, North Mundham ; abundant among Genista tinctoria — velocella, Dup. Hunton JVarren, not common — fumatella, Dgl. Not uncommon on the Clytnping sandhills in July and August. It may be turned out of the tufts of coarse grasses by blowing into them. This species is sunk as synonymous with distinctella, Z., by Standinger and Rebel. It is however abundantly distinct and may probably be oppletella (H.S., fig. 382) or perhaps nigricans (Hein., p. 205). Until the question of identity has been decided it is as well to keep alive Douglas' name (Fletcher) — ericetella, Hb. Abundant and generally distributed among ling on heaths and in woods — mulinella, Z. Everywhere common among gorse — sororculella, Hb. Abbots Wood, Burgess Hill, Chailey ; Goring Wood, Worthing, not uncommon among sallows — virgella, Thnb. Ashdown and Tilgate Forests (Vine) — diffinis, Hw. Pett ; very abundant on the shingles near Shoreham — rhombella, SchifF. Abbots Wood — distinctella, Z. Very abundant on the sandhills at Clytnping in June and July ; recorded also from the Hastings dis- trict — celerella, Stt. Probably $ of the preceding species — mouffetella, Schiff. Generally distributed among honeysuckle in hedgerows Bryotropha terrella, Hb. Everywhere abun- dant in grassy places — desertella, Dgl. Extremely abundant on the Clymping sandhills, Camber sand- hills, a single specimen on Hurston Warren — senectella, Z. Very abundant on the Clymping sandhills and on the shingles near Shoreham and Southiuick, occurs also sparingly on a park paling at Broadwater and in a brickpit at Burgess Hill Bryotropha mundella, Dgl. Very abundant on the sandhills at Clyinping — similis, Stt. Abundant on old walls at Bury, Ewhurst — affinis, Dgl. Near the fort, Clymping ; abundant on bank just east or entrance to Shoreham Harbour — umbrosella, Z. Very abundant on the sandhills at Clymping ; portlandicella, Richardson, which appears to be a form of the ? of this species rather than of mundella, to which it is attributed in Standinger and Rebel's Catalogue, occurs not unfrequently with the typical form. On Hurston Warren a form occurs abun- dantly in sandpits which differs from the coast insect in being rather larger, much blacker and more shiny-looking ; it occurs also on Gritham Common — basaltinella, Z. On an old barn at Bury, Fernhurst — domestica, Hw. Widely distributed and abundant among moss on old walls Lita acuminatella, Sircom. Arundel Park, Cissbury, Salvington Down ; abundant — artemisiella, Tr. Abundant among wild thyme on the downs near Bramber — costella, Westw. Arundel, Bognor, Bram- ber, shingles near Shoreham, Worthing ; abundant among Solanum — maculea, Hw. Abbots Wood, Cissbury, Burgess Hill, Fernhurst, Guestling, Rewel Wood near Arundel — tricolorella, Hw. Abbots Wood, Burgess Hill, Durrington, Fernhurst, Guestling — semidecandrella, Threlfall. Very abun- dant on the sandhills, Clymping; also occurs near the mouth of Shoreham Harbour — leucomelanella, Z. Abundant on the shingles near Eastbourne and between Brighton and Lancing among Silene maritima — knaggsiella, Stt. Fernhurst, Guestling (Barrett) — marmorea, Hw. Very abundant on Clymp- ing Common, occurs also at Pett — obsoletella, Fisch. Abundant on the shingles of the coast; the larvae feeding in fruit and stems of Atriplex hastata, Clymping, Eastbourne, Worthing — instabilella, Dgl. Very abundant at Shore- ham and Lancing among Atriplex por- tulacoides, and no doubt in all other localities where the food plant abounds — salicorniae, Hering. Abundant at Lancing, the larvae feeding on Salicornia, Suaeda and Spergularia — plantaginella, Stt. Lancing and Shoreham among Plantago coronopusand maritimus