INSECTS 



LYO-ENID/E (continued) 



Canal bank, Tring (Hon. L. Walter 

 Rothschild, Cottam, Elliman) ; Aid- 

 bury Owers (Le Quesne) ; near 

 Hitchin (Latchmore, Gatward) ; 

 Royston (A. H. Kingston) 



This, our smallest butterfly, ap- 

 pears to be particularly abundant at 

 certain spots in the Tring district 

 Chrysophanus astrarche, Bgstr. (medon, 

 Esp. ; agestis, Hb. ; artaxerxes, F.). 

 Bricket Wood (Perkins); Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Watford 

 (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Aldbury 

 (Cottam); Aldbury Owers and Pitstone 

 Hill (Elliman) ; Haileybury (School 

 List) 



The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild 

 informs me that this butterfly is 

 abundant in the district between 

 Pitstone and Berkhamsted Common 



phloeas, L. St. Albans and Harpenden 



(A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (Perkins); 

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 

 rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- 

 ford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Aid- 

 bury Owers and Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Stevenage 

 (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; 

 common in south-west Herts (H. 

 Rowland-Brown) 



Mr. Elliman has noticed that C. 

 phlaeas is more plentiful in some years 

 than others 



argiolus, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hoddesdon 

 (Harley, Entomologist, v. iii.) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Tring, abundant 

 (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild); Bushey 

 Heath (Barraud) ; Norton Green 

 Woods (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd}; 

 Bury Green and Bishop Stanford 

 (Mellows) ; Cassiobury Park (H. 

 Rowland-Brown) 



corydon, Pod. New Farm, St. Albans 



(A. Lewis) ; Letch-worth (Knapp, 

 Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer, ii. 

 155); Broxbourne Common (Warner) ; 

 Aldbury Downs (Cottam, Elliman) ; 

 common on downs at Dancer's End 

 (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild) ; Roy- 

 ston Downs (W. J. Hardy, A. H. 

 Kingston) ; Lilley Hoo (Latchmore, 

 Gatward) ; one at Turnford 

 (Boyd) 



This is a common insect on the 

 downs in the north of the county, 

 but it is also to be found occasionally 

 at considerable distances from any 

 extensive outcrop of the chalk, as at 



LYCJENID.S: (continued) 



Broxbourne Common, Turnford and St. 

 Albans 



Chrysophanus bellargus, Rott. (adonis, Hb.). 

 Aldbury (Cottam, Hon. N. Charles 

 Rothschild) ; Dancer's End (Hon. N. 

 Charles Rothschild, A. T. Goodson) ; 

 Royston (A. H. Kingston) 



Mr. A. T. Goodson reports that 

 both the spring and autumn broods 

 occur in the Tring district 



icarus, Rott. The common blue oc- 



curs very generally throughout the 

 county. Great variations in size are 

 often to be noted 



arion, L. Haileybury (Bowyer, Stock- 



ley) 



' One specimen shown up for the 

 Cornthwaite Prize some years ago ' 

 (Haileybury School List, 1888). Mr. 

 Stockley informs me that C. arion 

 was seen by three collectors in 1898 

 and that he was within a yard of the 

 specimen 



Colias hyale, L. St. Albans (A. E. G., 

 Perkins, A. Lewis) ; Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Watford 

 (Spencer, Cottam) ; Tring (A. M. 

 Brown) ; between Tring station and 

 Marshcroft (Elliman) ; near Hastoe 

 (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild) ; on 

 Aldbury side of railway (Cottam) ; 

 near Boxmoor (Cottam) ; Wormley 

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



edusa, F. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; 

 Sandridge (Griffith) ; Harpenden (E. 

 R. Chambers, J. J. Willis) ; Hitchin 

 (Durrant) ; Knebworth (Brown, 

 Entomologist, x. 139) ; Watford 

 (Cottam, Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 Haileybury (School List) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Southgate (Dymond) ; 

 Tring (Elliman, H. Rowland-Brown); 

 on the Aldbury side of the station 

 (Cottam) ; near Boxmoor (Cottam) ; 

 Radlett (A. R. Heath, Entomologist, 

 xxviii. 309) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Row- 

 land-Brown) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; 

 Wormley (Warner) ; Hertford (Grave- 

 son) ; Ware (G. H. Tite) ; Royston 

 (A. H. Kingston) 



var. helice. St. Albans (A. E. G.); 

 Brown's Lane, Tring (Goodson) ; 

 Watford (Cottam) ; New River 

 reservoirs, one specimen (Boyd) 



In papers read before the members 

 of the Hertfordshire Natural History 

 Society I have dealt at some length 

 with the appearances of C. edusa and 



