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Museum. The others were offered singly, and realized all sorts of 

 prices, from 30/- up to ^64, for specimens that might be described as 

 decent to fine; two somewhat poor specimens only made 10/- and 14/- 



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Hertfordshire Coleoptera.— Eight new species have been added 

 to the Hertfordshire list during 1904 by Mr. E. G. Elliman, of The 

 Broadway, Chesham. They are -.—Harpalus sahiUcola (Ross way, near 

 Berkhampstead), Cercyori niijriceps (Tring), Homalota consanquinea (two 

 examples m much-decayed beech-leaves at Tring), Placusa pumilio 

 (under bark of oak at Rossway), Myllcuna minuta (Wiggington), Catom 

 sencatus (taken by sweeping at Aldbury), Coccinella hieroqhjphica (Aid- 

 bury Owers), and Hister bissexstriatus (St. Albans). With" the exception 

 ot the last-named species, which was captured by myself, all the above 

 were discovered by Mr. Elliman. — A. E. Gibbs ; Kitchener's Meads, 

 St. Albans. 



Lepidoptera in Hertfordshire.— At a meeting of the members of 

 the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, held at 

 Watford on March 29th, Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., of St. Albans, pre- 

 sented a report on the Lepidoptera observed in the county chiefly 

 during 1904. Although the season, generally speaking, was an un- 

 favourable one, seven additional species, mostly recorded during 1904 

 were added to the county list. They are :— 1. Xylina seviibrunyieu- 

 tour specimens taken at sugar at Baldoek, in August and September by 

 \r-' ^-H. Foster, of The Grange. 2. Mehmippe qaliata, taken by 

 Miss Alice Dickmson at New Farm, St. Albans. 3." Antidea sinuata, 

 taken both at St. Albans by Miss Dickinson, and at Hexton by Mr. 

 Foster ; at the latter locality five specimens were beaten from a hedge 

 on the chalk-hills. 4. Cidaria sidemta, taken at Tring in the larval 

 stageby Mr. A. T. Goodson. 5. Scoparia anqustea, captured at Wat- 

 ford m 1900 by Mr. V. P. Kitchin. 6. Aceptilia galactodactyla, taken at 

 bt. Albans by Miss Dickinson. 7. Tinea granella, caught at St 

 Albans by Mr. Gibbs. These seven records brought up the total 

 number of species on the list kept by the Society to 1165. So far as 

 the Rhopalocera were concerned, Mr. Gibbs said he had little to report 

 most of his correspondents being agreed as to their comparative 

 scarcity the only exception to this being Pieris rapes, the second 

 brood ot which were stated by Miss Dickinson to have been unusually 

 abundant. Mr. Gibbs showed a series of specimens of males of the 

 early brood of this species, taken in his garden at St. Albans, in which 

 the black markings were either very faintly indicated or entirely 

 wanting. The extreme form was known as ab. immaculata, and by 

 way of contrast some strongly marked specimens of the second brood 

 were also exhibited. Alluding to the occurrence of Deilephila livomica 

 in the British Isles in 1904, Mr. Gibbs said he could not hear of any 

 stragglers havmg reached Hertfordshire, but he exhibited a specimen 

 taken by Miss Ada Selby in her garden at Bottler's Green in 1898 

 and mentioned that a second example has since been taken by her at 



BNTOM.— MAY, 1905. M 



