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Museum. The others were offered singly, and realized all sorts of 

 prices, from 30/- up to £4, for specimens that might be described as 

 decent to fine; two somewhat poor specimens only made 10/- and 14/- 

 each. 



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Hertfordshire Coleoptera. — Eight new species have been added 

 to the Hertfordshire list during 1904 by Mr. E. G. Elliman, of The 

 Broadway, Chesham. They are : — Harpalus sabulicola (Ross way, near 

 Berkhampstead), Cercyon nigriceps (Tring), Homalota consanguinea (two 

 examples in much-decayed beech-leaves at Tring), Placusa pumilio 

 (under bark of oak at Rossway), Myllana minuta (Wiggington), Catops 

 sericatus (taken by sweeping at Aldbury), Coccinella hieroglyphica (Aid- 

 bury Owers), and Hister bissexstriatus (St. Albans). With the exception 

 of the last-named species, which was captured by myself, all the above 

 were discovered by Mr. Elliman. — A. E. Gibbs; Kitchener's Meads, 

 St. Albans. 



Lepidoptera in Hertfordshire. — At a meeting of the members of 

 the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, held at 

 Watford on March 29th, Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., of St. Albans, pre- 

 sented a report on the Lepidoptera observed in the county chiefly 

 during 1904. Although tbe season, generally speaking, was an un- 

 favourable one, seven additional species, mustly recorded during 1904, 

 were added to the county list. They are: — 1. Xylina semibrunnea ; 

 four specimens taken at sugar at Baldock, in August and September, by 

 Mr. A. H. Foster, of The Grange. 2. Melanippe galiata, taken by 

 Miss Alice Dickinson at New Farm, St. Albans. 3. Anticlea sinuata, 

 taken both at St. Albans by Miss Dickinson, and at Hexton by Mr. 

 Foster ; at the latter locality five specimens were beaten from a hedge 

 on the chalk-hills. 4. Cidaria siderata, taken at Tring in the larval 

 stage by Mr. A. T. Goodson. 5. Scoparia angustea, captured at Wat- 

 ford in 1900 by Mr. V. P. Kitchin. 6. Aceptiiia galactodactyla, taken at 

 St. Albans by Miss Dickinson. 7. Tinea granella, caught at St. 

 Albans by Mr. Gibbs. These seven records brought up the total 

 number of species on the list kept by the Society to 1165. So far as 

 the Rhopalocera were concerned, Mr. Gibbs said he had little to report, 

 most of his correspondents being agreed as to their comparative 

 scarcity, the only exception to this being Pieris rapes, the second 

 brood of which were stated by Miss Dickinson to have been unusually 

 abundant. Mr. Gibbs showed a series of specimens of males of the 

 early brood of this species, taken in his garden at St. Albans, in which 

 the black markings were either very faintly indicated or entirely 

 wanting. The extreme form was known as ab. immaculata, and by 

 way of contrast some strongly marked specimens of the second brood 

 were also exhibited. Alluding to the occurrence of Deilephila livornica 

 in the British Isles in 1904, Mr. Gibbs said he could not hear of any 

 stragglers having reached Hertfordshire, but he exhibited a specimen 

 taken by Miss Ada Selby in her garden at Bottler's Green in 1898, 

 and mentioned that a second example has since been taken by her at 



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