A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



MICROPTERYGID^ (continued') 



Eriocephala thunbergella, F. Sandridge 

 (Griffith) ; common in Broxbourne 

 and Wormley Woods (Boyd) 



aureatella, Sc. (allionella, F.). Hertford 



(Stephens) 



mansuetella, Z. Sandridge (Griffith) ; 



MICROPTERYGID/E (continued) 



scarce at Bury Green, Cheshunt 



(Boyd) 

 Eriocephala aruncella, Sc. (seppella, F.). 



Sandridge (Griffith) ; common round 



Cheshunt (Boyd) 

 calthella, L. Sandridge (Griffith) 



NOTE 



As the Coleoptera and Lepidoptera are the only orders which have been systematically 

 listed for the county the few notes available regarding the other orders are here grouped 

 together. 



Orthoptera. The Common Earwig (Farficula auricularia) is of course abundant every- 

 where, and it commits great ravages among fruit and flowers. Other species of the same 

 genus are no doubt present, but I have been unable to find any published records of their 

 occurrence or to learn that they have been recognized. The Domestic Cricket (Gryllus domes- 

 ticus) and the Common Cockroach (Blatta orientalis) are widely distributed, and the Grasshopper 

 is often seen and heard. Mr. J. F. Stephens in Illustrations of British Entomology (' Mandibu- 

 lata'), vi., records the following five species as occurring in the vicinity of the county town. I 

 have followed his nomenclature in all cases : Micropteryx aptera, in a wood near Hertford ; 

 Meconema varia ; Phasogonura viridissima ; Acrydium subulatum ; and A. nigricans. 



Neuroptera. A paper entitled 'Notes on the Mayfly ' was read before the members of the 

 Watford Natural History Society on June I3th, 1878, by Dr. Peter Hood. This was 

 printed in the Transactions 1 and illustrated by a coloured plate. The subject is there treated 

 largely from the point of view of a fly-fisher, and the only reference which is made to 

 Hertfordshire is a record of the disappearance of Ephemera vulgata from the river Colne at 

 Rickmansworth. This stream formerly abounded with Mayflies as well as trout, but owing to 

 the pollution of the water both fly and fish had ceased to frequent the Colne at the time Dr. 

 Hood's paper was written. Lacewing Flies (Chrysopa), insects with delicate green bodies, are 

 often met with on warm summer evenings. They come freely to light, and when captured 

 emit a very unpleasant odour. The common species of Dragonflies are frequently to be 

 met with. 



Mr. Stephens reports the presence of the following species of Neuroptera : 



Ephemera vulgata 



fusca 



rosea 



helvipes 

 Cxnis pennata 

 Bagtis longicauda 



costalis 



subfusca 



obscura 



bioculata 



culiciformis 



horaria (?) 



cingulata 

 Clogon ochraceum 



albipenne (?) 



unicolore 



dimidiatum 

 Anas formosa 

 ./Eschna grandis 



affinis 



vernalis 

 Chrysopa capitata 



reticulata 



Chrysopa ventralis 

 Hemerobius pini 



pallidus 



fuscatus 



Coniopteryx tineiformis 

 Psocus subnebulosus 



venosus 



vittatus 



flavicans 



subocellatus 



rufescens 



flavescens 



nigricornis 



phacopterus 

 Sialis lutarius 

 Nemoura annulata 



luteicornis 



pallicornis 



nitida 



sulcicollis 



variegata 

 Leuctra fusciventris 



abdominalis 



1 Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. ii. p. 107. 

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