INSECTS 



ARCTIAD.S: (continued) 



Barnet (Gillum) ; Bricket Wood 

 (Cottam) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Mr. Arthur Cottam has taken this 

 pretty insect rather plentifully at 

 ' sugar ' at Bricket Wood, and Mr. 

 Stockley says that it comes rather 

 freely to ' light ' at Haileybury. At 

 Cheshunt it is scarce 



Miltochrista senex, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith); 

 Haileybury (Bowyer), ' once,' School 

 List 



Nudaria mundana, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 

 Hertford (Stephens) ; Duckmore Lane, 

 Tring (Le Quesne, Elliman) ; Ches- 

 hunt (Boyd) 



' An immense swarm ' was re- 

 ported to the Hertfordshire Natural 

 History Society (Transactions I. xvii.) 

 as having occurred at ' light ' at Har- 

 penden on December I3th, 1879, but 

 this was an obvious error, one of the 

 winter moths being of course referred 

 to. Mr. Elliman reports that a few 

 specimens were taken in Duckmore 

 Lane, Tring, by Mr. Le Quesne and 

 himself, and he remarks that when 

 beaten out of a hedge this species 

 frequently feigns death. Mr. Boyd 

 finds this to be a local insect 

 Nola cucullatella, L. St. Albans (A. E. 

 G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin 

 (Durrant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Watford (Spencer) ; Hemel Hemp- 

 stead (B. PifFard) ; Haileybury (School 

 List) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bushey 

 Heath (Barraud) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



This insect is taken occasionally 

 at ' light, ' though Mr. Elliman re- 

 ports it to be ' more common in the 

 larval than imago stage ' 

 Sarropthripus undulana, Hb. (revayana, 

 Tr.). Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Bricket Wood (Cottam) ; Feldon, near 

 Boxmoor (A. PifFard) 



Mr, Cottam captured this insect 

 at Bricket Wood in 1899 > Mr. Bar- 

 raud took one specimen at ' light ' on 

 November 1st, 1900 ; and Mr. 

 Albert Piffard secured another in 

 the same year. It is probably over- 

 looked by collectors, who mistake it 

 for a Tortrix 



Earius chlorana, L. Cheshunt (Boyd) 

 Hylophila bicolorana, Fuesl. (quercana, 

 Schiff.). Bricket Wood (Stoyel, A. 

 E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hit- 

 chin (Durrant) ; Tring (Goodson) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 

 Halias prasinana, L. Bricket Wood (Cot- 



ARCTIAD^: (continued) 



tarn, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; 

 Hitchin (Durrant) ; Tring, larvae (Hon. 

 L. Walter Rothschild) ; Stevenage 

 (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



This and the two preceding 

 species are not often met with 



Tyria jacobasae, L. St. Albans (A. Lewis, 

 A. E. G.) ; Watford (Cutts, Spencer, 

 A. E. G.) ; Welwyn (G. Buller, A. 

 E.G.); Hemel Hempstead(B.Piffsird); 

 Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- 

 ford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gil- 

 lum) ; Tring (Elliman, Le Quesne) ; 

 Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop Start- 

 ford (Taylor) ; Broxbourne (Boyd) ; 

 Railway bank, Oxhey, and Oxhey 

 Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) 



This species appears to be gener- 

 ally distributed throughout the 

 county, although in some localities 

 it is much more abundant than in 

 others. I have found the larvae in 

 very great numbers feeding upon 

 ragwort in the Tunnel Woods at 

 Watford. Mr. Matthews on the 

 other hand reports that it is not at 

 all common at Stevenage, and that he 

 has only seen two or three specimens. 

 Several observers have taken it prin- 

 cipally in the imago stage at ' light.' 

 Writing from Haileybury, Mr. G. C. 

 H. Stockley says it is ' becoming 

 scarcer, but the increased growth of 

 its food plant (ragwort) will no doubt 

 bring up its numbers again ' 



Utetheisa pulchella, L. East Barnet (Rtlhl) 

 In 1892 Mr. Rtlhl, the school- 

 master at the Boys' Farm Home, 

 East Barnet, captured a specimen of 

 this moth on the embankment of the 

 Great Northern Railway near Oak- 

 leigh Park Station, just within the 

 county boundary. The insect is 

 now in my possession 



Phragmatobia fuliginosa, L. Bricket Wood 

 (A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; 

 Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Tring 

 (Goodson) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Roys ton (A. H. 

 Kingston) 



Mr. Matthews reports this insect 

 as being fairly common in his district, 

 but with Mr. Boyd it is scarce, he 

 having seen only one or two speci- 

 mens at Cheshunt. In the Haileybury 

 School List one bred specimen is re- 

 ported 



