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cillata, in Mr. Grellit's garden ; Anticlea cucnllata, of which only two 

 specimens were taken ; Coremia guadrifasciaria, five examples at rest ; 

 Cymatophora octofffsinia, six at sugar ; Notodonta dictea and Apamea 

 unanimis, at light ; Acjrotis rai'ida, nine at sugar ; and Cirrlicedia 

 xerampelina, comparatively common on street-lamps late at night. 

 Mr. Foster also added eight or nine other insects to the Hitchin list. 

 Mr. P. J. Barraud, of Bushey Heath, reported that the season on the 

 whole had been a good one for Lepidoptera. About the usual number 

 came to light at his window, five species being new to his list, viz. 

 Dionthcecia ciicubali, EufiitJiecia puniilata, Sroparia amliyualis, Ypono- 

 meuta podellus, and Harpipteryx xylostella, making three hundred and 

 six species taken at light in that one locality. Sugaring, which had 

 been of little use during the previous few years, was reported by Mr. 

 Barraud to be attractive during August and September. By the removal 

 of Mr. Arthur Cottam from Watford, Mr. Gibbs said the Society lost 

 one 0! their most careful observers. Before leaving the county he sent 

 a short note recording the capture on June 3rd, at Aldbury, of a speci- 

 men of Charocampa porceliiis, a species which he subsequently took in 

 his garden at Watford, flying over honeysuckle. A list of captures at 

 Watford was communicated by Mr. V. P. Kitchin. of The Grange, 

 other records being supplied by Mr. W. C. Boyd, of Waltham Cross, 

 Mr. G. B. Digby, of Bournemouth, and Mr. A. T. Goodson, of Tring, 

 the latter gentleman remarking that butterflies were scarcer, not more 

 than a dozen specimens of Nemcobius lucina being seen, none of which 

 were taken ; while Goneptenjx rhamni was also far from plentiful. 

 Among local insects mentioned by Mr. Goodson were Notodonta dicta- 

 oides (larVcB), Cymatophora octoycsima, Plusia inoneta, and Spilodes 

 palealis. Mr. Gibbs said he feared his own local observations in 1905 

 were hardly wortii putting on record. The larvte of Pinsia moneta 

 were again plentiful in his garden on both aconite and delphinium. 

 Neither sugar nor light yielded anything very remarkable, and very few 

 moths visited ivy-blossom in the autumn, a cold October probably 

 being the cause. — A. E. Gibbs ; Kitchener's Meads, St. Albans. 



Hertfordshire Coleoptera. — Four species of Coleoptera have been 

 added to the Hertfordshire list. They are Stemis opticus, taken in dead 

 rushes near Tring ; Podabrus alpinns, taken at St. Albans by Mr. A. E. 

 Gibbs ; Longitarsus curtiis. taken at Tring in 1904 ; and Apion schon- 

 herii, found in haystack-refuse at Tring. Mr. E. George Ellimau, who 

 announced these additions in a short paper which was read at a meeting 

 of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society on the 6th March, pointed 

 out that Lonaitarsns curtiis had lately been introduced as British by 

 Mr. J. K. le B. Tomlin on specimens found in the Isle of Man. It now 

 appears that these Manx specimens are a small form of L. melimo- 

 cephalus, Deg. Mr. Elliman had submitted the specimens taken by 

 himself to M. Bedel, and he was quite positive as to their identity. 

 The species has been found on Echinm vidyare in France, but Mr. Elli- 

 man believed that in the case of his own specimens they had been 

 living on a species of Myosotis. L. ctirtus bears a considerable re- 

 semblance to L. lycopi, Foudr. — A. E. Gibbs; Kitchener's Meads, 

 St. Albans. 



