INSECTS 



SEUDOSEMID.S: (continued) 



lum) ; Nascot Wood (Cutts) ; Wat- 

 ford (Heaton) ; Bushey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. 

 Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; near 

 Little Hadham (Mellows) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) 



Described as common in the 

 Haileybury School List. Mr. Elli- 

 man finds it to be moderately com- 

 mon at Tring, where he has found 

 the larvas on spindle (Euonymus 

 europasus). Mr. Barraud has taken 

 two specimens, both of the normal 

 type. It is scarce round Cheshunt 

 Deilinia pusaria, L. (rotundaria, Hw.). 

 Bridget Wood, St. jf/bans, Symonds 

 Hyde and Bamville Wood Farm, 

 Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitckin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey and Oxhey 

 Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- 

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

 Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Common. D. rotundaria as dis- 

 tinct from pusaria is recorded from 

 Sandridge by Mr. Griffith and from 

 East Barnet by Colonel Gillum 



exanthemata, Sc. St. Allans (A. E. 



G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin 

 (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; 

 East Barnet (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood 

 (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. 

 Rowland-Brown); Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Common 



Ourapteryx sambucaria, L. St. Allans and 

 Harpenden (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Bricket Wood and Bushey 

 (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, 

 Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; 

 Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) ; Royston (A. H. Kingston) 



A common species 



Metrocampa prosapiaria, L. (fasciaria, 

 Schiff.). Hitchin (Durrant) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Waltham Cross 

 (Boyd) 



Scarce 



margaritaria, L. St. Allans and Zouches, 



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

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 



SELIDOSEMID^: (continued) 



(Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) ; 

 Tring (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild, 

 Elliman) ; Long Meadow, Bishop 

 Stanford (Mellows) ; Cheshunt and 

 Waltham Cross (Boyd) 



Mr. Elliman says that this species 

 is moderately common in the Tring 

 district, chiefly in the beech woods. 

 It well repays breeding ; the larvae 

 may be obtained easily as soon as the 

 beech is well out in leaf. Mr. 

 Mellows has taken several specimens 

 while beating the hedges in Long 

 Meadow. Other recorders take it 

 occasionally 



Metrocampa pulveraria, L. Bricket Wood 

 (A. E. G.); Watford(Spencer, Heaton, 

 Wigg) ; Haileybury (Stockley) 



A few specimens of this insect are 

 to be taken every year at Bricket 

 Wood. Mr. Stockley says it has been 

 captured two or three times at Hailey- 

 bury, but is scarce 



dolabraria, L. St. Allans and Bricket 



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

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- 

 ford (Spencer) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Wigginton (Foulkes) ; Bishop Start- 

 ford (Mellows) 



Taken occasionally at ' light ' and 

 at dusk. The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe 

 records in Zoologist, xi. 4,037, rearing 

 a specimen ' from a larva beaten off 

 oak in July, Herts ' 



Euchlasna prunaria, L. Bricket Wood 

 (Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), 

 ' Heath,' School List ; East Barnet 

 (Bowden) ; Oxhey Wood (Cutts) ; 

 Watford (Spencer) 



Not very abundant ; varies a good 

 deal 



apiciaria, Schiff. Bricket Wood (A. E. 



G.) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford 

 (Heaton) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring 

 (Le Quesne) ; Wilstone reservoir 

 (Elliman) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) 



Not generally abundant, but com- 

 mon at Cheshunt Marsh 

 Selenia bilunaria, Esp. (illunaria, Hb.). St. 

 Albans and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; 



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