S. cinctella (Clerck) Res., 1854-1980. Lotus. Loc c.
VC 18.40 *Epping by Doubleday (Stainton, 1854a); 67 Grays Chalk Pit (AME); 69 Brentwood
(VCH); 78 Thundersley; 88 Eastwood (FGW); 80 Hazeleigh (VCH); 99 Canewdon. VC 19.53
Rowney Wood; 54 Little Hales Wood; 63,64 Little and Great Bendysh Woods; 01 Fingringhoe
Wick NR (AME); 02 Colchester; 11 St Osyth (VCH).
Anacampsis temerella (L. & Z.) NRR., before 1894. Salix repens. This species has a northern and
western distribution and I can find no reference to it in Machin's published records; it may
be recorded in error.
VC 18.49/40 Epping by Mr Machin (VCH).
A. populella (Clerk) Res., 1899-1980. Populus, Salix. Wdspd and v.c.
(Whittle, 1899c)
*Southend district
A. blattariella (Hubn.) Res., (1903)-1979. Betula. Loc. c. but under-recorded through former
confusion with A. populella. *VCH, which gives birch as one of the foodplants of A populella.
VC 18. 49 Epping Forest; 67 Grays Chalk Pit; 80 Woodham Walter. VC 19. 81 Tiptree Heath
(AME).
Acompsia cinerella (Clerck) Res., 1840-1980. Moss. "Widely distributed" (VCH); there is,
however, only one recent record.
VC 19.43 High Wood, one 10 August 1980 (AME); 11/22 *Between Walton-on-the-Naze and
Brightlingsea (Douglas, 1840-1842).
Anarsia spartiella (Schrank) Res., (1845)-1980. Sarothamnus, Ulex. Loc. c.
VC 18.38 Snaresbrook (Machin, 1877a); Whipps Cross (AME); 48 *Wanstead (Humphreys &
Westwood, 1845 (2): 195; Elisha, 1879); 49 Woodford (SW); Hainault Forest; 40 Ivy Chimneys
(AME); 68 Mucking by CRNB (Pierce, 1918); 78 Thundersley (FGW). VC 19.60 Writtle AC.;
81 Tiptree Heath; 83 Bures Hamlet; 92 Heckford Bridge; Fordham Common (AME); Stanway
(VCH); 22 Little Oakley (AME).
Hypatima rhomboidella (Linn.) Res., (1903)-1980. Betula, Corylus. Loc. c, especially in the
north-west.
VC 18. 49 Epping Forest (AME); Chigwell Row (IS); 58 Rainham (GSR); 68 Mucking by
CRNB (Pierce, 1918). VC 19.43 High Wood; 44 Howe Wood; 53 Quendon; Rowney Wood; 54
Little Hales Wood; Shadwell Wood NR; 64 Great Bendysh Wood; 72 High Garrett; 73
Wethersfield; 91 Pods Wood; 03 Dedham (AME); 11 St Osyth (VCH).
Psoricoptera gibbosella (Zell.) Res., (1854)-1978. Quercus spp. Loc. f.c. in the south-west.
VC 18.49 *Epping and Hainault Forests (Stainton, 1854a, 1854b; Boyd diary; 12 in coll. Machin
(Bankes notebook); VCH; DJLA; IS); 40 Epping (VCH).
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