Lobesia reliquana (Hubn.) Res., (1859)-(1975). Quercus spp., Prunus spinosa, Betula. Formerly
loc. c. in the southern vice-county but since 1949 it has been observed only by Huggins, who
gives neither dates nor localities; probably persists.
VC 18. 49 *Epping Forest (Wilkinson, 1859) and many subsequent records to Thurnall (1902)
who describes it as abdt; 59 Warley (Thurnall, 1902; Syms, 1936-1937; Stanley-Smith, 1949-
1950; ECP-C); 68 Laindon by GHC (coll. T.B. Fletcher); 69 Brentwood (Burrows diary; AT;
SW); 88 Southend district (Vaughan, 1889; FGW; GHC; HCH); 89 Hockley, by GHC (coll.
T.B. Fletcher).
L. abscisana (Doubl.) Res., (1902)-1980. Cirsium arvense. Loc. f.c. and apparently spreading; not
recorded from the north-east. 67 *Tilbury (Thurnall, 1902).
L. littoralis (H. & W.) Res., 1846-1980. Armeria maritima. Wdspd and c. on salt-marshes; also
occurs inland on garden thrift which, according to Huggins, produces larger specimens. 11 *St
Osyth (Douglas, 1846b), who described it as a new species under the name Orthotaenia
venustana.
Bactra furfurana (Haw.) Res., 1883-1980. Eleocharis palustris, Juncus subuliflorus. V. loc. c.
VC 18. 38 *Hackney Marshes; Lea Bridge; Temple Mills; Snaresbrook (Thurnall, 1894,1902,
Thurnall having been the first to rear the adult in Britain); 78 Stanford-le-Hope (RT); Bowers
Gifford (Whittle, 1915); 89 Rochford (HCH); 99 Burnham-on-Crouch (SW). VC 19. 51
Matching Green, 1977-1979 v.c. (AME); 80 Ulting (HCH).
B. lancealana (Hubn.) Res., (1889)-1980. Juncus subuliflorus, Scirpus spp., Cyperus longus.
Wdspd and c. in the south; loc. and rather r. in the north.
VC 18. 88 *Leigh-on-Sea (Vaughan, 1889); see map. VC 19. 41 Sawbridgeworth Marsh NR
(RWJU); 50 Ongar (DCT); 60 Writtle A.C.; 01 Fingringhoe Wick NR (AME).
B. robustana (Christoph) Res., (1935)-1980. Scirpus maritimus. Loc. c. at the edge of the saltings.
First recognised as British from specimens taken by S. Wakely at Burnham-on-Crouch (Pierce
& Metcalfe, 1935). However, the moth had been known for many years and. though classed as a
form of B. lancealana, some writers had suspected that it might be distinct. It is figured under
the name B. dibeliana Hubn, by Wood (1854: pl. 57, fig. 1791). Wilkinson (1859: 146-147)
described it from specimens taken near Southend by S. Stevens. Barrett (1905: 130) refers to it
as a salt-marsh form. Specimens exist in old collections, e.g. a series taken at Benfleet on 26
June 1908 by GHC in Thurnall's collection.
Eudemis profundana ([D. & S.])Res., 1870-1980. Quercus spp. Loc. c. but not, apparently, in the
north-west.
VC 18.49 *High Beach (Boyd diary); Loughton (AT); 50 Stondon Massey (DCT); 68 Laindon
(HCH); 69 Ingrave (IM); 78 Thundersley (FGW); 79 Rettendon (HCH); 88 Southend district
(Vaughan, 1889; FGW; HCH); 89 Rochford (HCH). VC 19. 91 Wickham Bishops (GCD); 92
Berechurch (AME); 02 Colchester (VCH); 11 Maldon Wood (AME).
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