A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



GEOMKTRIDJE (continued) 



Euchloris lactearia, L. Bricket Wood and 

 Symonds Hyde (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge 

 (Griffith); Hitchin (Durrant); Hailey- 

 bury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gil- 

 lum) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud); Oxhey 

 Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Hemel 

 Hempitead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elli- 

 man) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Mr. Barraud finds this species to 

 be rather scarce at Bushey Heath ; 

 Mr. Boyd says that it is common 

 round Cheshunt ; Mr. Elliman reports 

 that in the Tring district it is very 

 common in the lanes and woods 



Geometra papilionaria, L. Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Bushey 

 (Cutts) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, 

 Cutts) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland- 

 Brown) ; Grove Lodge, Tring (Foulkes) ; 

 Berkhamsted (Goodson) ; Stortford 

 (Mellows) ; Cheshunt Marsh 

 (Boyd) 



Occasionally taken at ' light ' and 

 dusk 



Pseudoterpna pruinata, Hufn. (cytisaria, 

 Schiff.). Sandridge (Griffith) ; Kneb- 

 worth (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer), ' formerly on Heath,' School 

 List ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Brown's 

 Lane, Tring (Goodson) 

 Not very abundant 



MONOCTENIAD.* 



Baptria atrata, L. (chaerophyllata, L.). 

 Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' rare, 

 School List ; East Barnet (Gillum, 

 Dymond) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland- 

 Brown) ; Colney Heath (Pilbrow) 



A local species. At Colney Heath 

 it occurs only in one corner of a 

 large field, which corner, about two 

 acres in extent, is laid down with 

 permanent grass 



Erannis aescularia, SchifF. St. Allans, Bricket 

 Wood and Harpenden (A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey and Nascot 

 Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer) ; 

 Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Bushey 

 Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Common in most of the districts 



Brephos parthenias, L. Bricket Wood (A. 

 E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- 

 ford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Bow- 

 den) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Gryme's Dyke, Herts side, March 31 st, 

 1893 (H. Rowland-Brown) 



MONOCTENIADJE (continued) 



Occasionally met with in March 

 and April flying in the sunshine 

 SELIDOSEMIDJE 



Opisthograptis liturata, Cl. Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), 

 ' once,' School List 



clathrata, L. Aldbury, Bricket Wood 



and Bamville Wood Farm, Harpenden 

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

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; abundant 

 on railway embankment near Hitchin 

 (Matthews) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; 

 Hertford (Stephens) ; Watford (Spen- 

 cer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Eastbury (H. 

 Rowland-Brown) ; Hemel He mpstead 

 (B. Piffard); Tring (Elliman, Cot- 

 tam) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor) 



luteolata, L. (cratasgata, L.). St. Allans 



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

 Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer) ; Watford (Cutts, Spencer) ; 

 Tring (Elliman) ; Hammond Street, 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Taken at ' light ' at Haileybury ; 

 scarce at Cheshunt ; local but common 

 where it occurs in the Tring district 

 Diastictis wauaria, L. (wavaria, F.). St. 

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

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- 

 raud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stort- 

 ford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



A fairly common species 



roboraria, SchifF. Haileybury (Bowyer), 



' three at light," ' School List 



consortaria, F. Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) 

 Ectropis luridata, Bkh. (extersaria, Hb.). 



Bricket Wood (Cottam, Spencer, A. 

 E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bower), ' Roman- 

 road,' School List ; Broxbourne Woods 

 (Boyd) 



biundularia(crepuscularia, Hb.; laricaria, 



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

 Bushey (Cutts, H. Rowland-Brown); 

 Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Waltham 

 Cross (Boyd) 



Mr. Elliman takes this insect in 

 the same stations and at about the 

 same time as E. consonaria ; it is 

 fairly common in the Tring district ; 

 elsewhere it is scarce 



consonaria, Hb. Tring (Elliman) ; 



Broxbourne Woods (Boyd) 



Mr. Elliman says this species is 

 evidently well distributed through 

 the hilly woods of the district ; the 



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