XIII. 
NOTES ON TINEINA AND OTHEE LEPIDOPTERA OBSERVED IN 
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF SANDRIDGE, HERTS. 
By A. E. Griffith, M.A. 
Head at St . Albans , 18 th December , 1890. 
Sixce my former paper on the Lepidoptera of Sandridge was 
written, in the winter of 1883-84, I have lost no available oppor¬ 
tunity of continuing the work then begun. During the year 1884 
I was living in London and spent my Saturday afternoons, whenever 
I could spare them for the purpose, in collecting in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Sandridge, and succeeded in adding more than thirty species 
to the list already published, besides raising the number of species 
of Tineina observed here from about 150 to 230. But since the 
close of that year my removal into Sussex has made it impossible 
for me to continue any systematic work in this district. It 
therefore may be useful to publish my list of Tineina at once, so 
that it may form, in conjunction with Mr. Lurrant’s Hitchin lists, 
published in our ‘Transactions’ for December, 1885, and those 
published by Mr. Gibbs in the ‘Transactions’ for October, 1889, 
a starting point for a more complete county list. I have also taken 
the opportunity of supplementing my former list (which included 
all families of Lepidoptera except the Tineina). 
To my former list I have three corrigenda to make: one arises 
from a clerical error; another is caused by a recent identification. 
It has been ascertained that the Penthina , which is found widely 
distributed over England (but nowhere, so far as I can learn, 
commonly), amongst bugle, is quite distinct from the abundant, 
but exceedingly local Een species, carbonana , and that it is the 
P. ustulana of Hubner. Of this species I have only met with two 
examples in the district, one at Symond’s Hyde Wood, and one 
near St. Albans, and it is one of our rarest insects. As to the 
third of the corrigenda , the specimen which I had supposed to be 
Ephippiphora gallicolana is certainly not referable to that species, 
which is now merged in obecurana. 
With reference to the addenda I may remark that I found a 
larva of Orgyia gonostigma on oak at Ericket Wood in 1884. Two 
specimens of Acidalia inornata occurred at Langley Wood, and 
a few larvae of Eupithecia trisignata and many of E. albipunctata 
occurred on Angelica at Brocket Hall Bark and elsewhere. 
Lobophora sexalata appears to be common in one wood at Symond’s 
Hyde, close to which I found the larva of Chesias spartiata , while 
Thera firmata occurs on the fir trees in Brocket Hall Park, where I 
also obtained Heusimene fimbriana and Ocnerostoma piniariella. I 
found a specimen of Miana literosa at a lamp in the Great Northern 
Station at St. Albans, while larvae of Dianthoecia carpophaga occur 
plentifully on bladder-campion on the banks of the Midland 
Bailway, where I have also found the larva of Calocampa exoleta 
on Heracleum. PPydrocampa stagnalis and Scoparia pallida both 
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