A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



CURCULIONINA (continued) 



Ceuthorrhynchidius troglodytes, F. Tring 



chevrolati, Bris. Boxmoor, on the rail- 



way bank (PifFard) 



Amalus haemorrhous, Herbst. Near Bov- 

 ingdon, scarce, in a clover field 



Rhinonchus pericarpius, L. Tring ; New 

 Barnet (Newbery) 



gramineus, Herbst. Wihtone, rare, at the 



reservoir, on Polygonum amphibium 



perpendicularis, Reich. \ - . 



castor, F. J "** 

 Eubrychius velatus, Beck, Wihtone, at the 



reservoir 

 Litodactylus leucogaster, Marsh, Wihtone, 



with the preceding 

 Phytobius quadrituberculatus, F. Tring ; 



Hertford (Stephens) 



canaliculatus, Fahr. Wihtone, rare, in 



refuse at the reservoir 



quadrinodosus, Gyll. 1 Aldbury, one at 



the roots of Thymus serpyllum 

 Limnobaris T-album, L. Wihtone, rare, 

 at the reservoir ; Kings Langley 

 (PifFard) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Bal- 

 dock, common (Wood) 

 Balaninus nucum, L. Bricket Wood (Lew- 

 cock) 



betulae, Steph. Kings Langley (Piffard) 



villosus, F. Bovingdon ; Felden (PifFard) 



salicivorous, Payk. Tring ; near Hadley 



Wood (Newbery) ; Bricket Wood 

 (Lewcock) 



pyrrhoceras, Marsh. Tring 

 Magdalis armigera, Fourc. Little Tring, 



rare ; near Hadley Wood (Newbery) 



pruni, L. Tring 

 CALANDRINA 



Calandra granaria, L. Tring, in granary 



oryzae, L. Tring, with the preceding 

 COSSONINA 



Cossonus ferruginous, Clairv. Wihtone, 

 where I once found a considerable 

 quantity of the dead remains of this 

 insect, in a decaying elm 



Rhyncolus lignarius, Marsh. Tring ; Hert- 

 ford (Stephens) 



SCOLYTIDjE 

 Scolytus destructor, Ol. Tring 



Scolytus pruni, Ratz. Wihtone, in decay 

 ing plum tree 



rugulosus, Ratz. Tring, rare ; once 



caught on the wing ; New Barnet 

 (Newbery) 

 Hylastes ater, Payk. Tring 



opacus, Er. Wihtone, rare, in old ash 



tree ; Hertford (Stephens) 



palliatus, Gyll. Hastoe 



Hylesinus crenatus, F. Wihtone, in decay- 

 ing ash 



fraxini, Panz. Tring 

 Myelophilus piniperda, L. Tring, one 



caught on a gatepost 

 Cissophagus hederae, Schmidt. Felden 



(PifFard) ; Baldock (Wood) 

 Phlceophthorus rhododactylus, Marsh. Shot- 

 hanger Common (PifFard) 

 Pityophthorus pubescens, Marsh. Hertford 



(Stephens) 

 Xylocleptes bispinus, Duft. Tring, usually 



common in Clematis vitalba 

 Dryoccetes villosus, F. Bovingdon 

 Trypodendron domesticum, L. Tring, 



frequently found in numbers, in 



dead beech 

 Xyleborus saxeseni, Ratz. Felden (Piffard) 



ABNORMAL COLEOPTERA 

 STREPSIPTERA or STYLOPID^ 



Stylops melittae, Kirby. Felden (Piffard) 



SUMMARY OF SPECIES 



Geodephaga 125 



Hydradephaga 50 



Palpicornia 40 



Staphylinidae 408 



Clavicornia 313 



Lamellicornia 38 



Sternoxi 37 



Malacoderma 34 



Teredilia 26 



Longicornia 23 



Phytophaga (with Bruchidae) 131 

 Heteromera (with Abnormal 



Coleoptera) 48 



Rhyncophora (with Anthri- 



bidae) 251 



LEPIDOPTERA 



Of the 2,061 species of Lepidoptera included in the British lists, 

 1,138, or rather more than half, have been observed in Hertfordshire. As 

 might be anticipated, the group of insects commonly known as butterflies 



1 This species formerly stood in British collections as Rhinonchus denticollis, Gyll. (Entomobgitti' 

 Monthly Magazine, vol. xxrv. p. 142.) 



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