INSECTS 



CARADRINIDJE (continued] 



yer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East 

 Earnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; 

 Busbey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford 

 (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



A very abundant and variable 

 species 



Hadena fasciuncula, Hw. Bricket Wood&nA. 

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

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Hailey- 

 bury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; 

 East Earnet (Gillum) ; Bushey 

 (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Oxhey 

 Lane (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) 



Common ; see note to H. literosa 

 Metachrostis perla, F. St. Allans (A. 

 Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Hailey- 

 bury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gil- 

 lum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Watford (Spencer, Hea- 

 ton, Wigg) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland- 

 Brown) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. 

 Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Stevenage 

 (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 

 Common at ' light ' and rest 

 Acronycta leporina, L. Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Haileybury (School List) ; 

 Watford (Cutts, Spencer) ; Tring 

 (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild) 



Mr. Spencer has taken a number 

 of larvae of this moth on birch at 

 Watford. At Haileybury it was 

 captured once on the heath and in 

 1877 the Hon. L. Walter Roth- 

 schild caught it at Tring 

 alni, L. Hoddesdon (F. M. Campbell); 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Oakland;, 

 St. Albans (Pilbrow) ; Nascot Wood 

 (Cutts) ; Tring (A. T. Goodson) ; 

 Tring Park (Hon. L. Walter Roth- 

 schild) ; Churchgate, Cheshunt (Boyd) 

 This interesting and uncommon 

 species is more often taken in the 

 larval form than as a perfect insect 



The first published records of the 

 occurrence of this species in Hert- 

 fordshire are, it is believed, those of 

 its capture in a fence in Nascot Wood 

 Road, Watford, by Mr. J. E. K. 

 Cutts in 1891 and the discovery of 

 a mature larva by Mr. F. M. Camp- 

 bell, F.L.S., on some fresh-turned 

 mould under a lime tree in his gar- 

 den at Rose Hill, Hoddesdon, on 

 August 2 ist in that year (Transac- 

 tions of the Hertfordshire Natural 



CARADRINID^: (continued) 



History Society, vii. 195). The 

 records by Mr. Pilbrow of Colney 

 Heath and Mr. Bowyer of Haileybury 

 are of larvae captured in 1893 

 Acronycta tridens, Schiff. Hitchin (Durrant); 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Tring and Wilstone (Elli- 

 man) ; Cheshunt Street (Boyd) 



A local species ; the larvae are 

 fairly common at Haileybury 



psi, L. Common throughout the 



county 



megacephala, F. St. Albans and 



Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford 

 (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring 

 (Foulkes) ; Wilstone (Elliman) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Generally distributed but not 

 abundant. Taken at ' sugar,' ' light ' 

 and at rest 



aceris, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford 

 (Heaton) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Pif- 

 fard) ; Wilstone reservoir (Elliman) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 

 A scarce insect 



ligustri, F. Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; 



Sandridge (Griffith) ; Watford (Spen- 

 cer) ; Wilstone reservoir (Elliman) ; 

 ' Herts ' (Rev. H. Harpur Crewe) 



The records generally are of the 

 capture of isolated specimens or of 

 its occurrence in small numbers. 

 The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe (Zoolo- 

 gist, xi. 4,037) reared one specimen 

 from a larva taken on ash in July in 

 Herts 



rumicis, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Hitchin (Durrant) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Ches- 

 hunt (Boyd) 



A scarce Hertfordshire species 

 PLUSIAD.S: (Hypenides) 



jEthia tarsipennalis, Tr. Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; East Bar- 

 net (Gillum) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- 

 raud) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Occasionally at ' light,' common 

 round Cheshunt 



nemoralis, F. (grisealis, Hb.). St. 



Albans, Bricket Wood and Wheathamp- 

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

 East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



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