AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.
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The Tineae are omitted from the list, but I hope that Mr. Sydney
Webb will furnish the necessary information for a list of the species
he observed, many of which are rare, and which, with the names of
a few Coleoptera I noticed, I trust to be able to communicate to a
future number of the Essex Naturalist.
The nomenclature and arrangement adopted is that of Mr. Richard
South's "'Entomologist' Synonymic List of British Lepidoptera,''
London, 1884.
The number of species in each group is as follows :—
[Since the paper was read, I have (1889) re-visited the locality, and was
grieved to find that building operations were in contemplation and progress on the
fields above the "Slopes," which I fear will cause the disappearance of many
species.]
Rhopalocera.
Papilio machaon.3 Stated by Coleman, in his "British Butter-
flies," to have occurred at Southend.
Pieris brassicae, P. rapae and P. napi. Common.
P. daplidice. Southend. Mr. Douglas recorded the capture of a
f on the 11th August, 1876. "Entomologists' Monthly Magazine,"
xiii, p. 108.
Euchloe cardamines. Common.
Colias edusa and C. hyale. Common in some seasons.
Gonopteryx rhamni. Common at Eastwood and in the
lanes.
Argynnis selene and A. euphrosyne. Common at East-
wood.
3 Mr. F. H. Varley exhibited, at a meeting of the Club on November 26th, 1881, specimens
of P. machaon bred from pupae attached to the stems of an umbelliferous plant growing on the
banks of the Thames between Southend and Tilbury, in October, 1868 (see "Proceedings," vol.
ii, lxxix). Unless these pupae were introduced into Essex by some enthusiastic entomologist,
we must look upon this as one of the last records of P. machaon in Essex,—Ed,