A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



LASIOCAMPIDJE (continued) 



Odonestis potatoria, L. St. Albans and 

 Wheathampstead, larvae (A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- 

 ford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gil- 

 lum) ; Clothall and Bushey (Cutts) ; 

 Watford (Spencer) ; Oxbey (H. 

 Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop Start- 

 ford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) 



A common species 



Gastropacha quercifolia, L. St. Albans 

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

 (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrani) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford 

 (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Bowden) ; 

 Watford (Cottam, V. P. Kitchin, 

 A. Stoyel) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Shire Lane, Tring (S. W. Jenney, 

 jun.) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop 

 Stortford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Ches- 

 hunt (Boyd) 



Abundant in 1890 in Watford 

 and St. Albans. At the latter place 

 a railway employ^ took a considerable 

 number both on the street lamps and 

 at the signal box at the station in the 

 early morning. The larvae are taken 

 commonly at Haileybury, Stevenage 

 and Bishop Stortford ; one perfect 

 insect taken at Tring and one at 

 Bushey Heath. Occurs at ' light ' 

 most years in the Cheshunt district 



PAPILIONINA 

 NYMPHALID.S: 



Argynnis paphia, L. Bricket Wood (A. 

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

 (Durrant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 Longcroft and Brown's Lane, Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Hitch Wood and other 

 woods, Stevenage, sometimes very 

 common (Matthews) 



The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild 

 considers that the three larger species 

 of Argynnis are much scarcer than 

 formerly 



adippe, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Tring 



Woods (Elliman) 



aglaia, L. Haileybury (Bowyer) ; near 



Grove Wood, Tring (Le Quesne) ; 

 Brown's Lane, Tring (Hon. L. Wal- 

 ter Rothschild) ; Bishop Stortford 

 (Mellows) 



Mr. Elliman, who reports Mr. Le 

 Quesne's captures, writes with refer- 

 ence to the two last-named species 



NYMPHALIDJE (continued) 



that A. adippe appears to be much 

 more plentiful than A. aglaia in the 

 Tring Woods. Mr. Mellows has 

 seen A. aglaia twice in Long Meadow, 

 Bishop Stortford, in 1895 and in 1896 

 Argynnis lathonia, L. Hertford (Stephens, 

 Illustrations of British Entomology , i. 

 38, 1828) 



euphrosyne, L. Bricket Wood, Ash- 



ridge and Bracket Hall (A. E. G.) ; 

 Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, 

 Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Norton 

 Green Woods, common, (Matthews) ; 

 Bishop Stortford (Mellows) ; Oxhey 

 Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) 



This, the most abundant of the 

 Hertfordshire fritillaries, often flies in 

 considerable numbers in woodlands 

 in May and June 



selene, Schiff. Bricket Wood, sparingly 



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

 Tring (Elliman) ; Norton Green 

 Woods, common (Matthews) 



This insect is not so abundant as 

 the preceding species and usually 

 appears later 



Melitaea aurinia, Rott. (artemis, Hb.). 

 ' Taken at Knebworth Wood by Mr. 

 B. Christian two or three years ago ' 

 (Durrant, in Transactions of the Hert- 

 fordshire Natural History Society, iii. 

 266) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) 



Mr. Stockley informs me that M. 

 aurinia has been three times recorded 

 at Haileybury in the last three years. 

 Newman, in his Illustrated Natural 

 History of British Butterflies and 

 Moths, gives Drayton Beauchamp as 

 a locality for this species on the 

 authority of the Rev. H. Harpur 

 Crewe. Mr. Elliman believes that 

 the Rev. H. H. Crewe's insects were 

 taken in Bucks ; at any rate it must 

 have been close to the border, and it 

 is very doubtful if this may be claimed 

 as a Hertfordshire record 

 Vanessa c-album. Hertford, abundant 

 prior to 1833 (Stephens, in Illustra- 

 tions of British Entomology, i. 42) ; 

 ' Reported three or four times near 

 Broxbourne ' (Stockley) 



Mr. Arthur Lewis tells me that 

 when a boy he saw V. c-album near 

 the old Cotton Mills at St. Albans 



urticas, L. Generally distributed 



throughout the county 



polychloros, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; 



Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 



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