A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



CARADRINIDJE (continued) 



Monima miniosa, F. Bricket Wood(h.. Lewis, 

 Cutts, Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Watford 

 ^Spencer) ; Sandridge (Griffith) 



Bricket Wood appears to be the 

 headquarters for this insect. Although 

 it cannot be said to be abundant, it 

 is to be taken at sallows nearly every 

 spring, and in some years much more 

 plentifully than others 



pulverulentula, Esp. (cruda, Tr.). St. 



Albans, Park Street, Wheathampstead 

 and Hawks-wick (A. E. G.) ; Bricket 

 Wood (Cottam, A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood and 

 Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- 

 raud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Hemel 

 Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elli- 

 man) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



This is the smallest and at the 

 same time the commonest of the 

 Hertfordshire Monimae, often occur- 

 ring at sallows in great profusion. 

 The only observer who reports it as 

 being ' not very common ' is Mr. 

 Barraud. Next to this the most 

 abundant species are stabilis, gothica 

 and incerta 



munda, Esp. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; 



Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. Lewis, 

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

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Oxhey Wood 

 and Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Watford (Spencer) 



M. munda and miniosa do not 

 appear to have been noticed in the 

 northern and eastern parts of the 

 county, while Mr. Boyd is the only 

 observer who has taken M. populeti 

 in either of those districts 



gothica, L. St. Albans, Park Street and 



Wheathampstead (A. E. G.) ; Bricket 

 Wood (A. Lewis, Cottam, A. E. 

 G.); Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin 

 (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; 

 Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood, Bushey and 

 Nascot Wood (Cutts); Bushey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Oxhey railway bank (H. 

 Rowland-Brown); Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton, Wigg) ; Hemel Hempstead 

 (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Ches- 

 hunt (Boyd) 



M. opima is the only species be- 

 longing to this genus which has not 

 been recorded as occurring in the 

 county 



CARADRINID.S (continued) 



Charaeas graminis, L. Haileybury (Bowyer) ; 

 East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts); 

 Boxmoor (A. Piffard) ; Aldbury (Elli- 

 man, Cottam) 



A local insect, Aldbury Owers being 

 the station at which it is most abun- 

 dant 



Neuronia popularis, F. St. Albans, Harpenden 

 and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sand- 

 ridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Royston (Ste- 

 phens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- 

 raud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 Tring (Le Quesne) ; Stevenage 

 (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Panolis piniperda, Panz. Hertford (Ste- 

 phens) ; Watford (Wigg) 



Mr. Stephens captured the first 

 British specimen of this moth at 

 Hertford in April, 1 8 1 o (Illustrations 

 of British Entomology, iii. 20) 



Harmodia nana, Rott. (conspersa, Esp.). 

 Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' once on 

 Baits Park palings,' School List 



carpophaga, Bkh. Haileybury (Bow- 



yer) ; St. Albans (Griffith) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Cottam) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Pif- 

 fard) ; Tring (Elliman); 'Herts' 

 (Rev. H. Harpur Crewe) 



This is rather a scarce moth, 

 several of the recorders having taken 

 but one specimen each. The Rev. 

 H. Harpur Crewe (Zoologist, xi. 

 4,037) records having bred this insect 

 from larvae found on seeds of Selene 

 inflata in July and August in Herts, 

 Bucks and Derbyshire. The larvae 

 lie coiled up between the calyx and" 

 the seed vessel of the plant (ibid. xii. 

 4,192). Mr. Elliman reports that 

 the larvae are very plentiful at Tring 



capsincola, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Watford 

 (Wigg) ; Tring (Foulkes) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) 



cucubali, Fuesl. St. Albans and Bricket 



Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford 

 (Wigg) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Pif- 

 fard, Rev. H. Harpur Crewe) ; 

 Carpenders Park (H. Rowland- 

 Brown) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe (Zoo- 

 logist, xi. 4,037) records the capture 

 of larvae on Selene inflata in July and 



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