OBSERVED NEAR SANDRIDGE. 
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having occurred. Coleophora currucipennella has occurred more 
freely than I have found it elsewhere. Chauliodus llligerellus 
occurs near Wheathampstead and at Bricket Wood; Laverna 
Haschhiella at Symond’s Hyde, where the larva is common in 
leaves of JEpilobium angustifolium, though it appears to he rather 
difficult to rear; L. subbistrigella has occurred on the banks of the 
Midland Bailway ; Llachista alpinella and poce on the hanks of the 
Lea, where Lithocolletis Stettinella and Klemannella occur rarely 
and L. alnifoliella commonly amongst alder, and Penthim caprceana, 
Spilonota neglect ana, and Phyllocnistis saligna amongst sallow and 
osier. Lithocolletis corylifoliella and emberizcepennella both appear 
to be rare, the former feeding not only in hawthorn but also in 
apple leaves in orchards, and L. lantanella is local, as also are 
Opostega salaciella and Trifuroula immundella , the former occurring 
at Bricket Wood and the latter locally amongst broom. Here and 
there, too, a crab-apple bush may be found with nearly all the 
leaves mined by Trifurcula pulverosella , two larvee of which 
frequently make their blotches more or less symmetrically on each 
side of the mid-rib. 
Our Sandridge list now comprises 832 species, while Mr. 
Hurrant’s Hitchin lists above referred to comprise 419 species, 
including fifty-six which neither my brother nor I have met with 
here. But the whole of his list of Tineina (which includes six 
species not met with here) constituted an addition to our published 
County Fauna, my list not having been printed at the time his 
paper was read. The lists published by Mr. Gibbs (see above) 
record seven species discovered by him in the neighbourhood of 
St. Albans which we have not met with, and he also records 
several Tineina, including Chimabacche phryganella, which oddly 
enough has hitherto entirely escaped me here. 
The following table is given to show the number of species 
hitherto observed by us in this neighbourhood compared with the 
total number of species included in the British list. For the idea 
of this table I am indebted to the Purbeck list published by Mr. 
Bankes in the ‘ Proceedings of the Dorsetshire Natural History 
Club,’ vol. vi. 
Diurni. 
29 
out 
of 
66 
British 
species, 
N octurni . 
43 
9 ) 
99 
113 
99 
Geometrina . 
138 
99 
289 
Pseudobomby ces. 
18 
99 
55 
32 
59 
95 
Noctuina . 
122 
99 
322 
55 
99 
Deltoidee . 
4 
9 9 
5? 
14 
99 
99 
Aventia . 
1 
9 9 
1 
9 9 
9 9 
9 9 
Pyralidina. 
31 
9 5 
59 
76 
55 
Crambites. 
20 
83 
99 
Tortricina. 
150 
9 9 
5 5 
342 
9 9 
9 9 
Tineina . 
266 
99 
5 5 
718 
9 9 
9 9 
Pterophorina . 
10 
99 
55 
35 
99 
99 
Total. 
832 
99 
55 
2091 
9 9 
99 
I may add that the Purbeck list comprises 879 species, and 
contains more than mine in each of the above classes except the 
