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III. 
NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA OBSERVED IN HERTFORDSHIRE 
IN THE YEAR 1902. 
By Philip J. Barraud, F.E.S. 
Head at Watford , 21s£ April , 1903. 
In the absence of Mr. A. E. Gibbs, your Recorder of Insecta, 
who, I regret to say, has been seriously ill, I have been asked to 
lay before the members of the Society the annual report on the 
Lepidoptera observed in this County during the past year. 
In addition to notes made by Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Arthur Cottam (of 
Watford), and myself, I have received reports from Miss Alice 
Dickinson, of the New Earm, St. Albans, and Mr. A. T. Goodson, 
of Tring. 
Owiug to the cold and unfavourable Summer the season was not 
a good one from an entomologist’s point of view, but in spite of 
this some good captures were made, and I am glad to say that we 
are able to add six species to the County list, bringing the total 
up to 1,149. 
These species are : — 
PJiycis fusca ( carbonariella ), taken by Mr. Gibbs at Bricket Wood 
in September. 
Tinea albipunctella , captured by Mr. Gibbs at St. Albans in June. 
Tinea fuscipunctella , taken by Mr. Gibbs at the same place in 
June and October. 
Coleophora annulatella ( laripennella ), taken by Mr. Gibbs at 
St. Albans in August. 
Laverna miscella , captured at Aldbury by Mr. Gibbs in September. 
Camptogramma jiuviata , a specimen of which was taken by 
Mr. Goodson at Tring Reservoirs on 21st September, 1898, but 
has only recently been identified by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild. 
Mr. Goodson says that so far as his collecting was concerned 
the season was fairly remunerative. Butterflies were certainly 
not so common as in the previous year, especially the Blues and 
Fritillaries, but the latter have of late years been more or less 
scarce. Early in the year he met with the usual Hyberniidae, 
and bred some Eriogaster lanestris and Amphidasys prodromaria. 
In April the sallows yielded Tceniocampa gothica , T. instabilis , 
T. cruda (ypulverule'nta\ Pachnobia rubricosa , Cerastis vaccinii, Scopelo- 
soma satellitia , and Eupithecia abbreviata. 
On April 13th a specimen of the large tortoise-shell butterfly 
( Vanessa polychloros ) was captured at sallow-bloom near Stubbings 
Wood by Mr. W. Hawker Smith. This appears to be the first record 
for this insect so far west in the county, and brings the total 
number of butterflies observed in the Tring district up to 40. 
On April 16th Mr. Goodson bred Asphalia ridens from larvae 
beaten in Wick Wood, and on the 25th some Pemas coryli . On 
