INSECTS 



(continued) 

 L. Walter Rothschild) ; New Barnet 

 (H. C. Regnart, Entomologist, xxx. 

 1 8) ; East Barnet, pupae (Bowden) ; 

 Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop Start- 

 ford (Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Considerable numbers of the larvae 

 and pupae are sometimes found in 

 potato fields, and in the Haileybury 

 School List the imago is recorded to 

 have come to ' light.' Mr. Minall's 

 specimen was taken at rest on a 

 telegraph post in Aylesbury Road, 

 Tring, and is now in the Hon. L. 

 Walter Rothschild's collection 



Smerinthus populi, L. St. Allans (A. 

 Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant, Latch- 

 more) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- 

 ford (Simmons, Entomologist, vi. 316) ; 

 Busbey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton, Wigg) ; East Barnet (Gil- 

 lum) ; Tring (Hon. L. Walter 

 Rothschild, Elliman) ; Busbey Heath 

 (Barraud) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; 

 Bishop Stanford (Taylor, Mellows) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



The late Mr. Latchmore reported 

 that in 1892 the larvae of S. populi 

 and S. ocellatus were unusually abun- 

 dant in the Hitchin district. The 

 Hon. L. Walter Rothschild possesses 

 a remarkably pale yellow variety 

 without markings of S. populi bred 

 at Tring in 1900 



ocellatus, L. St. Allans (A. Lewis, 

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

 Hitchin (Durrant, Latchmore) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford 

 (Stephens) ; Watton-at-Stone (Hodges, 

 Entomologist, vii. 233) ; Nascot Wood 

 (Cutts); Watford (Spencer, Cutts); 

 East Barnet (Gillum) ; Tring and 

 Wilstone reservoir (Elliman) ; Bishop 

 Stortford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Steven- 

 age (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Mr. Elliman finds the larvae of 

 this species pretty freely in the Tring 

 district, but chiefly about Wilstone 

 reservoir. Mr. Arthur Lewis of St. 

 Albans possesses an interesting speci- 

 men, which appears to be a hybrid 

 between this species and S. populi 



Dilina tiliae, L. St. Albans, Harpenden 

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

 Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Bushey 

 (Cutts) ; Watford (Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 East Barnet (Gillum) ; Tring (Hon. 

 N. Charles Rothschild) ; Bishop 



SPHINGID^E (continued) 



Stortford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Steven- 

 age (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; 

 Roy ston (A. H. Kingston) 



The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild 

 figures and describes in Entomologist, 

 xxvii. 50, a very curious aberrant 

 form (male) bred in 1893 from a 

 larva found at Tring in September, 

 1892. A very yellow variety was 

 found at St. Albans and brought to 

 me in 1888 



NOTODONTIDJE 



Pygaera pigra, Hufn. (reclusa, F.). East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Cheshunt Marsh 

 (Boyd) 

 Scarce 



curtula, L. Sandridge (Griffith) 

 Notodonta ziczac, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Hitchin (Durrant, Gatward) ; Hailey- 

 bury (Bowyer), ' Heath, Hailey Lane,' 

 School List ; Watford (Heaton) ; 

 Bushey, electric light, 1900 (V. P. 

 Kitchin) ; Wilstone reservoir (Elli- 

 man) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; 

 Cheshunt (Boyd) 



Taken twice at Haileybury ; scarce 

 round Cheshunt. Mr. Gatward has 

 taken the larvae on a weeping willow 

 at Hitchin 



dromedarius, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Hitchin (Durrant) ; Watford (Spen- 

 cer) ; near Berkhamsted (Rev. H. 

 Harpur Crewe, Zoologist, x. 3,625) ; 

 Little Tring reservoir (Elliman) 

 Drymonia dictaeoides, Esp. Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Stockley) ; East 

 Barnet (Bowden) ; Tring (Hon. L. 

 Walter Rothschild) 



Rare. Mr. Stockley says this in- 

 sect has not been taken for a long 

 time 



tremula, Cl. (dictaea, Esp.). Sandridge 



(Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. 

 Piffard) ; near Berkhamsted, larvae 

 (Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, Zoologist, 

 x. 3,625) ; Wilstone reservoir (Elli- 

 man) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) 



When the Haileybury School List 

 was published in 1888 this had been 

 taken three times at ' light.' Mr. 

 Stockley writes that four larvae were 

 taken in 1899. Mr. Spencer took 

 one larva at Watford. Mr. Boyd 

 describes it as scarce at Cheshunt 

 Marsh 



trepida, Esp. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Haileybury (Bowyer) ; near Berk- 



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