INSECTS 



NYMPHALID-S: (continued) 



rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton, Wigg) ; Bishop Stanford 

 (Taylor, Mellows) ; Stevenage (Mat- 

 thews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Carpenders 

 (H. Rowland-Brown) 



This species appears to be decreas- 

 ing in abundance. Twenty years 

 ago I used to take it in considerable 

 numbers, chiefly on the north side of 

 St. Albans, but I have not now seen 

 it for a long time. Mr. Stockley 

 writes from Haileybury that it was 

 formerly obtained annually, but has 

 not been caught for three years. Mr. 

 H. Rowland-Brown in a note at- 

 tached to his Carpenders record says 

 ' not seen of late years.' Mr. Boyd 

 reports it is ' sometimes common ' at 

 Cheshunt. Mr. Matthews at Steven- 

 age only meets with it occasionally, 

 two or three a season. Writing 

 to me in 1893, the late Mr. Frank 

 Latchmore of Hitchin tells the same 

 story of its disappearance. He says : 

 ' Formerly this insect was common 

 at Ickleford. The chrysalides were to 

 be seen hanging from the coping of 

 the walls near the church opposite 

 some lime trees. I have not seen a 

 pupa case at that spot for some years.' 

 It is much to be regretted that this 

 handsome insect seems to be gradu- 

 ally disappearing from Hertford- 

 shire 



Vanessa io, L. St. Albans, Brocket Hall and 

 Berkhamsted Common (A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- 

 ford (R. T. Andrews) ; Watford 

 (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Bushey Heath, ' seems to 

 be disappearing ' (Barraud) ; Steven- 

 age (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; 

 West Hyde (H. Rowland-Brown) ; 

 Royston (A. H. Kingston) 

 antiopa, L. St. Albans (Vincer) ; be- 

 tween Watford and St. Albans, 1855 

 (Humphries, Transactions of the Wat- 

 ford Natural History Society, ii. 70) ; 

 Hertford (Stephens, Illustrations of 

 British Entomology, i. 45); Hoddesdon, 

 1875 (Cottam, Transactions of the 

 Watford Natural History Society, ii. 

 1 9) ; Brickendon near Hertford (W. 

 Summers, Entomologist, vi. 2l6) ; 

 Stanstead (Horley, ibid.) ; Hitchin 

 (Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, ix. 

 107); Southgate, at ' sugar ' (Dymond) ; 



NYMPHALID^E (continued) 



Tring (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild); 

 Hatfield (F. W. F.) 



This very uncertain insect was . 

 seen three times in Hertfordshire in 

 1900. When riding not far from 

 the entrance to Brown's Lane, Tring, 

 during the first week in September 

 the Hon. L. Walter Rothschild, 

 M.P., saw V. antiopa fly over him. 

 On October ist the late Mr. H. E. 

 Vincer, one of the masters at the Hat- 

 field Road Board School, St. A/bans, 

 captured a specimen of this insect 

 fluttering in the window of one of 

 the classrooms. It passed into the 

 possession of Mr. J. Tomlin, another 

 of the masters in the same school, 

 who lent it for exhibition at a meet- 

 ing of the Hertfordshire Natural 

 History Society on March 26, 1901. 

 ' F. W. F.' records in Entomologist, 

 xxxiii. 303, the capture near Hatfield 

 of a fine specimen about October 

 loth 



Vanessa atalanta, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- 

 ford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring 

 (Elliman) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; 

 Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) ; West Hyde (H. Rowland- 

 Brown) ; Royston (A. H. King- 

 ston) 



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

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- 

 ford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring 

 and Wilstone reservoir (Elliman) ; 

 Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) ; Bishop Stortford (Mellows) ; 

 Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Royston 

 (A. H. Kingston) 



This insect is irregular in its 

 appearance, being very plentiful in 

 some seasons but very scarce in 

 others 



Apatura iris. Hertford (Stephens, July, 

 1833, Illustrations of British Entomo- 

 l Syy iv - 3 8 



SATYR.ID.flE 



Melanargia galatea, L. Watford, 1878 

 (Perkins, Transactions of the Watford 

 Natural History Society, ii. 67) ; 

 Woodcock Hill, Elstree (F. Bond, 

 Newman's Illustrated Natural History 

 of British Butterflies and Moths, 79) ; 

 Letchworth (Knaggs, Entomologists' 

 Weekly Intelligencer, ii. 153) ; Dancer's 

 End, Tring (A. T. Goodson) 



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