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Turning now to the reports from correspondents, I will deal 
first with the notes received from Mr. Foster, of Hitchin. 
Besides the five species which he has been able to add to our 
list, Mr. Foster records the capture of many interesting insects, 
among them being Thecla w-album, Trochilium bembeciformis , Ino 
geryon , Notodonta dromedarius , Cymatophora ocularis , Agrotis 
ravida , Xanthia aurago , Aporophyla lutulenta , Plusia moneta , 
Aplecta advena , Acontia luctuosa , Eurymene dolobraria, and others 
which will in due course he entered in our Becord-book. The 
confirmation of the Rev. G. H. Raynor’s record of the presence 
of Aporophyla lutulenta in North Herts is worthy of notice. This 
species is now shown to occur at Hitchin in fair numbers, though 
it does not appear in Mr. Durrant’s list. Mr. Foster informs me 
that Mr. Grellett took about half-a-dozen at sugar in the Autumn, 
as did also Mr. Foster himself. Mr. Grellett’s collection includes 
Thyatira derasa , Caradrina taraxaci , Xanthia citrago , Anchocelis 
rufina , Radena protea , and Remerophila abrupt aria, all taken in 
the town or its vicinity. 
Miss Alice Dickinson, of New Farm, St. Albans, a diligent 
worker who generally manages to add to our list, and who this 
year has been so fortunate as to secure Ricycla do in her garden, 
has, considering the season, met with a fair amount of success 
during 1903. The first entomological note of the year refers to 
the capture by her sister, on a telegraph-post on February 16th, 
of the early grey moth, Xylocampa liihoriza , a species which 
I have myself secured on the palings at Hawkswick in the same 
neighbourhood. On May 22nd Rylophila prasinana emerged in the 
breeding-cage, the larva having been taken in Hawkswick Wood 
in the previous September. Ennychia octomaculata , an insect 
which Miss Dickinson first discovered in the county in 1901, 
when she captured near St. Albans the specimen now in the 
cabinet at the County Museum, was seen but not taken on the scrub 
at Bricket Wood. Other Noctuae which she reports are Thyatira 
derasa , Rydrcecia nictitans , Ceriyo matura , Dipterygia scabriuscula, 
Miana fasciuncula, M. literosa, M. hi color ia, Agrotis suffusa, 
A. saucia , Noctua pled a, Triphcena janthina, T. fimbria, Anchocelis 
lunosa, A. litura , Cerastis vaccinii, C. spadicea , Scopelosoma 
satellitia , Calymnia diffinis , Euplexia lucipara , Gonoptera libatrix, 
Tlusia moneta , P. chrysitis , P. iota, and Catocala nupta. Among 
the Geometers are Se/enia illunaria , S. lunaria (from larvae taken 
in Sparrowswick Wood), Remerophila abruptaria , Asthena candidata , 
Acidalia promutata, A. imitaria , Caber a pusaria , C. exanthemata , 
Lomaspilis marginata , Anisopteryx cesculana , Emmelesia alchemillata , 
E. subfulvata, Eupithecia centaureata, Melanthia albicillata, Melanippe 
unangulata , M. rivata , M. montanata, Coremia ferrugata , C. uni- 
dentaria , Tnpliosa dubitata (at sugar), Cidaria immanata, C. fulvata , 
C. pyraliata , Anaitis plagiata , and Eubolia cervinata (larva). Two 
Bombyces reported are Bornbyx quercus, a larva of which was 
brought from Bernards Heath, fully fed, on August 31st, and 
a goat moth, Cossus ligniperda , taken on an apple-tree on July 22nd. 
