INSECTS 



STERRHID.S (continued) 



A local species ; often common 

 where it occurs 



Eois dimidiata, Hufn. (scutulata, Bkh.). St. 

 Albans and Bamville Wood Farm, 

 Harpenden Common (A. E. G.); Sand- 

 ridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Generally described as common. 

 Mr. Elliman finds it to be common 

 some years ; at Haileybury it is not 

 common 



trigeminata, Hw. Haileybury (Bowyer), 



' Heath,' rare, School List ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) 



bisetata, Hufn. St. Albans (A. E. G.); 



Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) 



Mr. Elliman finds E. bisetata to 

 be local ; Mr. Barraud has only 

 taken a few specimens ; Mr. Boyd 

 describes it as common round Ches- 

 hunt 



Leptomeris remutaria, Hb. St. Albans, 

 Bricket Wood, Symonds Hyde and Bam- 

 ville Wood Farm, Harpenden Common 

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

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Watford 

 (Spencer) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Brox- 

 bourne Woods (Boyd) 



A common species 



ornata, Sc. Canal bank, Tring station, 



1899 and 1900 (Goodson) 



imitaria, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Bushey (Cutts) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 

 Fairly common 



emutaria, Hb. St. Albans and Bricket 



Wood (A. E. G.) 



rubiginata, Hufn. (rubricata, F.). Wat- 



ford, 1890 (Cottam) 



orbicularia, Hb. Bricket Wood (Cottam) 



pendularia, Cl. Sandridge (Griffith) 



porata, F. Bricket Wood (Spencer, 



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

 Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' School 

 List 



punctaria, L. St. Albans and Bricket 



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

 fith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- 

 ford (Cutts) 



trilinearia, Bkh. (linearia, Hb.). St. 



Albans (A. E. G.) ; East Barnet 



STERRHID^E (continued) 



(Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; 

 Tring (Elliman) 



Mr. Elliman finds this to be very 

 abundant in most of the beech woods 

 in his district. It is not generally 

 plentiful 



Leptomeris annulata, Schulze (omicronaria, 

 Hb.). Sandridge (Griffith); Haileybury 

 (Bowyer), ' Heath,' School List ; 

 Tring (Goodson) 



Calothysanis amata, L. (amataria, L.). 

 St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford 

 (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton) ; Bricket Wood (Barraud) , 

 Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring 

 (Le Quesne) ; Stanford (Taylor) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Common 

 GEOMETRID^ 



Nemoria strigata, Mull, (thymiaria, Gn.). 

 St. Albans (A. E. G.); Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) , Watford 

 (Spencer, Wigg) ; Oxhey Wood (H. 

 Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Foulkes, 

 Goodson) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Generally common, except at 

 Tring, where Mr. Elliman says that 

 it is apparently not common, though 

 Mr. J. L. Foulkes has taken and 

 also bred the species 



Euchlorispustulata, Hufn. (bajularia,Schiff.). 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Watford 

 (Spencer) ; College Road, Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) 



Rare. In the Haileybury School 

 List it is stated to occur on the 

 Heath, but is not common. Mr. 

 Stockley writes that it is now to be 

 found more freely, about a score of 

 specimens being taken in 1900. 

 Mr. Boyd and Mr. Spencer have each 

 taken one specimen in their localities 



vernaria, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 

 Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer), ' Roman road,' School 

 List ; Miswell (Elliman) ; Tring 

 (Goodson) 



Mr. Elliman says that the larvae 

 may be beaten from many of the old 

 clematis hedges about Drayton Beau- 

 champ and Miswell. It is better to 

 take them in the spring and save the 

 risk and trouble of keeping them 

 through the winter 



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