CONTENTS
EDITORIAL 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5
SOME NOTABLE ESSEX BUTTER-
FLIES AND LARGER MOTHS 6
THE CHANGING STATUS OF ESSEX
BUTTERFLIES 12
IS ESSEX A POOR COUNTY FOR
BUTTERFLIES? 16
THE BUTTERFLIES AND LARGER
MOTHS OF SELECTED ESSEX
HABITATS
Sawbridgeworth Marsh 22
Grays Chalk Quarry 23
Stour and Copperas Woods 23
Benfleet Downs 24
Backwarden 25
Colne Point 26
Fingringhoe Wick 28
New House Farm, Great Bromley 29
INTRODUCTION TO THE SYSTEM-
ATIC LIST AND DISTRIBUTION
MAPS
The scope of the systematic list 31
The Lepidoptera Panel 31
Links with the Guide 32
Family descriptions 32
Nomenclature 32
Recording area 32
Status of species 33
List of recorders 34
Numbers of species 35
The distribution maps 36
THE SYSTEMATIC LIST
Primitive moths:
Hepialidae 38
Cossidae 38
Zygaenidae 39
Limacodidae 39
Sesiidae 40
Butterflies:
Hesperiidae 41
Papilionidae 42
Pieridae 43
Lycaenidae 44
Nemeobiidae 46
Nymphalidae 46
Satyridae 49
Danaidae 51
Larger Moths:
Lasiocampidae 51
Saturniidae 52
Drepanidae 52
Thyatiridae 53
Geometridae 54
Sphingidae 77
Notodontidae 79
Lymantriidae 81
Arctiidae 83
Nolidae 86
Noctuidae 86
Appendix 115
ADDITIONS AND AMENDMENTS TO
THE SMALLER MOTHS OF ESSEX 118
REFERENCES AND SOURCES 129