INSECTS 



SELIDOSEMIDJE (continued) 



Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Burton Grange, Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) 



Fairly common and one of the 

 earliest arrivals at 'light.' Mr. Spencer 

 notes slight variations as to colour 

 Gonodontis elinguaria, L. St. Album (A. E. 

 G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin 

 (Durrant) ; Hai/eybury (Bowyer); East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Busbey (Cults) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. 

 Rowland-Brown) ; Hemel Hempstead 

 (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Bishop Stanford (Mellows, Taylor) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Generally common throughout the 

 county 



PoLYPLOCIDj-E 



Habrosyne derasa, L. St. Albans and 

 Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sparrows- 

 wick, St. Albans (A. Lewis) ; Hitchin 

 (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; 

 Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Stevenage 

 (Matthews) ; Bishop Stortford (Tay- 

 lor, Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Tolerably common in some locali- 

 ties in certain years 



Thyatira batis, L. Bricket Wood, Radlett 

 and Cassiobury Park (A. E. G.) ; 

 Knebworth (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Oxhey Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spen- 

 cer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud); 

 Wilstone reservoir (Elliman, Le 

 Quesne) ; Gryme's Ditch (Foulkes) 



Sometimes comes freely to ' sugar.' 

 The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe reared 

 ' two from larvas on raspberry, July, 

 Herts ' (Zoologist, xi. 4,037) 



Palimpsestis duplaris, L. Brictet Wood 

 (Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Watford (Cottam) 

 Rare 



or, F. Bricket Wood (Cottam, A..~E.G.y, 

 Hemel Hempstead (A. E. G.) ; Sand- 

 ridge (Griffith); Knebworth (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hastoe (Elli- 

 man) 



Two specimens have been taken 

 at Haileybury. Rev. H. Harpur 

 Crewe reared ' one from a larva 

 beaten off oak in July, Herts ' 

 (Zoologist, xi. 4,037) 



Polyploca diluta, F. Bricket Wood (Cot- 

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

 fith) ; Knebworth (Durrant) ; Hailey- 



POLYPLOCID^: (continued) 



bury (Bowyer) ; Oxhey Wood (Cutts); 

 Watford (Cottam, Spencer, Wigg) 



Common at ' sugar ' at Haileybury 

 Polyploca flavicornis, L. Bricket Wood 

 (Spencer) 



Mr. Spencer found the larva of 

 this moth on a young birch tree 

 at Bricket Wood on May 1 6th, 1896, 

 and the perfect insect emerged dur- 

 ing the following March 



ridens, F. St. Albans (A. Lewis) ; 



Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Theobald's and 

 Broxbourne Woods (Boyd) 



Recorded in the Haileybury School 

 List as taken at ' light,' but not com- 

 mon. Mr. Stockley informs me that 

 it has not been taken lately. It is 

 scarce in Mr. Boyd's neighbourhood. 

 The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe reared 

 ' one from a larva beaten off oak in 

 July, Herts ' (Zoologist, xi. 4,037) 

 SPHINGID.S: 



Hemaris bombyliformis, Esp. Sandridge 

 (Griffith) 



fuciformis, L. Haileybury (Bowyer), 



'once on Heath,' School List ; Worm- 

 ley (Warner) ; Broxbourne Woods 

 (Boyd) ; Tring (Le Quesne) 



The Tring specimen is reported 

 by Mr. Elliman to have been taken 

 in the larval state on honeysuckle by 

 Mr. Le Quesne 



Macroglossa stellatarum, L. St. Albans 

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

 Colney Heath (Pilbrow) ; Hitchin 

 (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; 

 Hertford (Stephens) ; Southgate 

 (Dymond) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Heaton) ; Tring 

 (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild, Elli- 

 man) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Stevenage 

 (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Roy- 

 ston (A. H. Kingston) 



This species sometimes occurs in 

 great profusion. This was especially 

 the case in 1893 (vide Transactions 

 of the Hertfordshire Natural History 

 Society, viii. 80). A correspondent 

 reported that at the harvest festival 

 at Colney Heath Church in that year 

 dozens of these insects were attracted 

 by the floral decorations, and their 

 ' humming ' was very noticeable 



Deilephila porcellus, L. Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Watford (Spencer) ; Bushey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Aldbury Downs (Hon. L. 



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