A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



PlERID.ffi (continued) 



C. hyale in the county (Transactions 

 Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 

 vii. 1 88 and viii. 77). During the 

 past year, 1900, it has again oc- 

 curred in some profusion. Among 

 the records for that year are those 

 of the Hon. L. Walter Rothschild, 

 M.P., who writes : ' This autumn I 

 have taken several Colias hyale 

 within the county limits, though my 

 brother and I and the Museum staff 

 captured the bulk of some fifty we 

 took nearer Halton, on the Bucks 

 side of the border.' The same 

 observer reports that C. edusa was 

 taken near Tring windmill, and that 

 Mr. A. T. Goodson captured a 

 specimen of var. helice. Mr. A. 

 Cottam's observations printed above 

 were also made during the past 

 season. Both species were fairly 

 abundant at New Farm near St. 

 Albany C. hyale being perhaps the 

 commoner, as seems to have been 

 the case throughout the county. I 

 observed C. edusa flying in St. Peter's 

 Street in September 



Gonepteryx rhamni, L. St. Albans, Bricket 

 Wood and Els tree (A. E. G.) ; Sand- 

 ridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Throcking 

 (Rev. C. W. Harvey) ; East Barnet 

 (Gillum) ; Watford (Heaton, Wigg); 

 Tring (Elliman) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- 

 raud) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt 

 (Boyd) ; Rickmansworth and Oxhey 

 (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Royston (A. 

 H. Kingston) 



Euchloe cardamines, L. St. Albans, Bricket 

 Wood, Harpenden Common and Brocket 

 Hall (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hitchin 

 (Durrant) ; Hertford (Silvester) ; 

 Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; 

 Tring (Elliman) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- 

 raud) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Ches- 

 hunt (Boyd) ; Bishop Stortford (Mel- 

 lows) ; south and west Herts, gener- 

 ally distributed (H. Rowland- 

 Brown) 



Leucophasia sinapis, L. Haileybury (Bow- 

 yer) ; Bishop Stortford (Mellows) 



The latter correspondent writes : 

 ' I took one in the grounds of the 

 Nonconformist Grammar School in 

 1894, but know of no others having 

 been taken there ' 



Pieris napi, L. Common throughout the 

 county 



PIERID.S (continued) 



Pieris rapae, L. Common throughout the 

 county 



brassicas, L. Common throughout the 

 county 



Mr. Elliman observes that P. 

 brassicae occurs more especially near 

 the woods in the Tring district 



Aporia crataegi, L. One specimen of this 

 insect is recorded in the School List 

 as having been captured at Hailey- 

 bury 

 HESPERIAD^: 



Hesperia malvae, L. (alveolus, Hb.). St. 

 Albans, Shenley, Bricket Wood and 

 Brocket Hall (A. E. G.) ; Hemel 

 Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; Knebworth (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford, Ben- 

 geo and Brickendon (Stephens) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Dancer's End and between Aldbury 

 and Ivinghoe (Hon. L. Walter Roths- 

 child) ; Broxbourne Woods (Boyd) ; 

 Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) 



Mr. Elliman reports this species to 

 be common in the Tring district, but 

 more local than H. tages 



tages, L. Bricket Wood, Aldbury and 



Shenley (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East 

 Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, 

 Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; 

 Dancer's End (Hon. L. Walter Roth- 

 schild) ; Norton Green Woods (Mat- 

 thews) ; Broxbourne Woods (Boyd) ; 

 Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) 

 Pamphila thaumas, Hufn. (linea, L.). Sand- 

 ridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; 

 Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford 

 (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; 

 Grove Wood, Tring (Elliman) 



sylvanus, Esp. Bricket Wood and 



Shenley (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- 

 fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury 

 (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; 

 East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford 

 (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Aldbury 

 (Cottam) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Norton 

 Green Woods (Matthews) ; Oxhey 

 (H. Rowland-Brown) 



comma, L. Roman road, Haileybury 



(Stockley) ; Berkhamsted Common, 

 one specimen (G. H. Raynor, New- 

 man's Illustrated Natural History of 

 British Butter/lies and Moths, 173); 

 Aldbury Downs (Hon. L. Walter 

 Rothschild, Elliman, Cottam) ; 



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