A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



PLUSIAD/E (Hypenides) (continued') 



At ' light ' ; common round Ches- 

 bunt 



Herminia barbalis, Cl. Hertford (Stephens) ; 

 Hitchin (Durrani) 



Hypena rostralis, L. Bricket Wood and St. 

 Albans (A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey 

 Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Collam) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



proboscidalis, L. St. Albans (A. Lewis, 

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

 Hitchin (Durrani) ; Hertford (Ste- 

 phens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Bushey (Cults) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- 

 raud) ; Watford (Cotlam) ; Oxhey 

 Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Start- 

 ford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Avenlia flexula, Schiff. Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Bricket Wood (Cults, Collam) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; has occurred 

 at Bayford and Cheshunt (Boyd) 

 PLUSIAD/E (Plusiades) 



Ophiusa paslinum, Tr. Caughl al Kneb- 

 worth by Mr. Benjamin Brown, 

 formerly of Deard's End Farm 

 (Griffilh, Transactions of the Hert- 

 fordshire Natural History Society, iii. 

 266) 



Scoliopteryx libatrix, L. St. Albans, Bricket 

 Wood and Wheathampstead (A. E. 

 G.); Sandridge (Griffilh); Hitchin 

 (Durrani, F. Latchmore) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Oxhey Wood and Bushey (Culls) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford 

 (Spencer, Healon, Wigg) ; Oxhey 

 (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elli- 

 man) ; Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) 



Generally abundanl, but Mr. 

 Barraud does not find this species to 

 be very common at Bushey Heath 



Plusia monela, F. Watford (Cottam) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring 

 (Skipp) ; Waltham Cross (Boyd) 



This insecl, which was firsl laken 

 in Great Britain at Dover as recenlly 

 as 1890, appears lo be establishing 

 ilself in Hertfordshire. The first 

 specimen captured in ihe county was 

 caught by Mr. Arthur Cotlam in 

 Watford on June igih, 1896. The 

 capture is recorded in the Transac- 

 tions of the Hertfordshire Natural 

 History Society, ix. 236. Mr. Cot- 

 tam was catching the moths thai 

 came to a large clump of honey- 

 suckle then in full flower in the 

 garden of Elmcote with ihe lale Mr. 



PLUSIADJE (Plusiades) (continued} 



Clarence E. Fry, who then resided 

 there. In the same year it was 

 taken at Hastoe near Tring by John 

 Skipp, then setter and assistanl at 

 the Hon. L. Waller Rolhschild's 

 museum, eighl specimens being se- 

 cured in ihe lasl week of June and 

 firsl week of July. On July i8lh, 

 1899, Mr. Barraud look a splendid 

 specimen of P. monela in his lighl 

 Irap at Bushey Heath. The most 

 recent records are by Mr. W. C. 

 Boyd, who took two specimens at 

 Waltham Cross in 1900 

 Plusia chrysitis, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffilh) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rani) ; Weluiyn (G. Buller) ; Hailey- 

 bury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gil- 

 lum) ; Bushey (Culls) ; Bushey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Watford (Spencer, Hea- 

 ton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Bishop Stanford (Taylor, Mellows) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Royston (A. H. 

 Kingslon) 



Common in many localilies 



festucae, L. Watford (Collam) 



iota, L. St. Albans and Hatfield (A. 



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

 (Durrani) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; 

 Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Bushey (Culls) ; Watford 

 (Collam, Spencer) ; Bushey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Steven- 

 age (Matthews) ; Bishop Stanford 

 (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Ralher common al ' lighl ' and 

 flowers 



pulchrina, Hw. (v-aureum, Gn.). Har- 



penden (A. E. G.) ; Weluiyn (Buller) ; 

 Hai/eybury(Bowyer) ; Bushey (Culls) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford 

 (Spencer) ; Tring (Le Quesne, Elli- 

 man) ; Bishop Stanford (Mellows) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Ralher local ; fairly abundant in 

 some localities, but only occasionally 

 met with in others 



gamma, L. An abundant and widely 



distributed species, but variable in 

 numbers in different seasons. Thus 

 in 1892 it is noted by Mr. Spencer 

 as being very abundant at Watford, 

 but in the following year it was 

 seldom met with. Mr. H. Rowland- 

 Brown of Harrow Weald observed 

 that it was again scarce on the 

 Middlesex border in 1881 



interrogationis, L. Once al Cheshunt 



Street (Boyd) 



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