THE ROSY-MARBLED MOTH IN BRITAIN.
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place; at Don's Farm; 28th August, one; 9th October,
fourteen.
Turtle-Dove, Streptopelia turtur. 31st July; 28th August,.
common.
Other species identified are as follow:—Jackdaw, Jay, Star-
ling, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Linnet, British
Bullfinch, Yellow Hammer, Reed-Bunting, Sky-Lark, Pied
Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, British Great Titmouse, British Blue
Titmouse, Whitethroat, Willow-Warbler, Missel-Thrush, Song-
Thrush, Fieldfare, Blackbird, Redbreast, Hedge Sparrow, Wren
Green Woodpecker, Swift, Kestrel, Mallard, Lapwing, Black-
headed Gull, Moor-Hen, Wood Pigeon, Partridge.
THE ROSY-MARBLED MOTH (LITHACODIA
[ERASTRIA] VENUSTULA, HUB.) IN BRITAIN.
By CHARLES NICHOLSON, F.E.S.
[Read 28th January, 1923.]
ALTHOUGH the beautiful little moth which is the subject
of these notes has been found in Britain only in the counties
of Essex and Sussex, there is apparently no reference to it in
the Proceedings and Transactions of the Essex Field Club or
the Essex Naturalist. It seems desirable therefore to sum-
marise the knowledge we possess concerning it with a view to 
preserving, in a convenient form, as complete a record as possible
of its habits and occurrence in Britain. Apart from Britain it
is found in Europe (France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Hungary,
Switzerland, Bulgaria and South Russia), and Asia (Transcau-
casia, Armenia, Persia and Siberia), so that it has a very extensive
range in the northern hemisphere of the Old World.
In Britain the outstanding feature in connection with this
moth is its extremely limited range and the local character of
its occurrence in (some, at least, of) its known localities. In
Sussex it is to be found only in that stretch of woodland near
Horsham, separate parts of which are known as Worth, Tilgate
and St. Leonard's Forests respectively. In the last named
area it was apparently discovered in 1874 (see Table), flying in
June in dozens along the paths, and the late Mrs. Bazett, of
Reading, was perhaps the first to take it (some 25 to 30 years