A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



corded for Hertfordshire by Mr. Griffith only : Hemaris bombyliformis, 

 Pygcera curtula, Heliotbis armigera, Leucopbtbalmia pendularia, Euchceca 

 obliterata> T'epbroclystis plumbeolata^ T. virgaureata, Calocalpe undulata, and 

 Cataclysme virgata. Especial mention must be made of Mr. Griffith's 

 careful study of the ' pug ' moths and their life history, he having 

 recorded the occurrence of no less than 22 species. 



The next published lists were those of Mr. John Hartley Durrant, 

 F.E.S., of species observed in the neighbourhood of Hitchin and Kneb- 

 worth. 1 He recorded 419 species, of which 106 were not included in 

 Mr. Griffith's list, thus bringing the total for the county up to 938. 

 The insects named in Mr. Durrani's Hitchin list were captured at 

 Hitch Wood, Ickleford, Norton, Offley, Pegsdon, Ippolyts and Tingley 

 Wood, and roughly speaking all his collecting was done on the Chalk or 

 on the Boulder Clay or Drift overlying it. The species recorded by 

 Mr. Durrant alone include Procris geryon, Callimorpba dominula, and 

 Heliotbis peltigera. Mr. Durrant also made a further valuable contri- 

 bution to local entomological literature in a paper 2 read at Watford in 

 1888, which contained a large number of records gathered from various 

 sources of species observed in the county. The majority of the records 

 are collected from Stephens' Illustrations of British Entomology (Haustel- 

 /ata), vols. i. to iv., ranging in date from 1828 to 1834, and I have 

 made use of Mr. Durrani's paper in compiling my present list. 



In the same year Mr. R. W. Bowyer, one of the masters at Hailey- 

 bury School, published a list 3 of the Macro-Lepidoptera which had been 

 caught in that neighbourhood. This contained the names of 30 butter- 

 flies and 315 moths, and included some rare insects, such as Lyccena arion 

 and Catocala fraxini. About the same time the Haileybury Natural 

 Science Society issued a useful little work entitled Tbe Flora and Fauna 

 of Haileybury, part i. of which includes the Lepidoptera. This I have 

 consulted in addition to Mr. Bowyer's catalogue and some additional 

 notes and records supplied by Mr. C. H. Stockley, and it is referred to 

 hereafter as the ' Haileybury School List.' 



The Macro-Lepidoptera of south-west Herts have been very carefully 

 investigated by the Watford entomologists, good work having been done 

 in this direction by Mr. Arthur Cottam of Elderscroft, Mr. J. E. K. Cutts 

 (formerly of Silverdell, Nascot Wood), Mr. S. H. Spencer, Mr. Noel 

 Heaton, Mr. Wigg, and Mr. A. Stoyel. At Bushey Heath Mr. Philip J. 

 Barraud has succeeded by means of a light trap in securing a number of 

 rarities, among which may be mentioned Ortbosia suspecta and Plusia 

 moneta ; and at Oxhey, which, like the last locality, is on the Middlesex 

 border, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., F.E.S., of Harrow Weald, has 

 captured a number of interesting species. 



The extensive tracts of woodland with which Hertfordshire abounds 

 have proved fruitful hunting-grounds, prominent among them being 

 Bricket Wood, about midway between St. Albans and Watford, and 

 well known to the collectors resident in those two towns. Besides the 



J Trans. Herts Nat, Hist. Sac., vol. iii. p. 261. * Ibid. vol. v. p. 63. 3 Ibid. vol. v. p. 23. 



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