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haunts, chiefly in the southern counties, and in such localities 
comes freely to ivy-bloom. 
5. Scoparia angustea, St. Watford: Y. P. Kitchin. 
This Pyralid was taken at Watford by Mr. Kitchin in 1900. 
It is stated by Mr. Barrett to he an insect which is most plentiful 
and most generally distributed on the coast, more local inland, hut 
to frequent suitable places throughout England and Scotland. 
I have found no records of its occurrence in neighbouring counties, 
except Essex, but it may have been overlooked. 
6. Aciptilia galactodactyla, Hb. St. Albans : Miss A. Dickinson. 
Miss Dickinson sent me a specimen of this plume moth among 
some micros captured near St. Albans. The larvae feed on burdock- 
leaves, the imagos being rarely seen. The moth is recorded from 
Cambridge, Middlesex, and Essex. 
7. Tinea ( Scardia) granella , L. St. Albans: A. E. Gibbs. 
A specimen of this little moth was caught by me at St. Albans. 
It has been identified by the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield and the late 
Mr. C. G. Barrett. 
So far as the Rhopalocera are concerned there is little to report. 
Miss Dickinson is the only correspondent who sends any details 
with regard to them, though most collectors allude to their scarcity. 
The only exception to this was that common pest the small 
cabbage-white butterfly ( Pieris rapce), the second brood of which, 
Miss Dickinson says, flew in swarms in all the fields at New Farm, 
St. Albans. In my garden I take a rather interesting aberration 
of the male of this insect, in which the black marking at the tip 
of the wing is entirely wanting or only very faintly indicated. 
The extreme form has been given the name of ab. immaculata. It 
occurs in the spring, the early brood in this species being generally 
much less strongly marked than the summer generation. I show 
specimens for comparison. Both broods of Colias edusa were 
present, but not in any abundance. Mr. Arthur Dickinson saw 
single specimens on May 20th and August 2nd. 
Argynnis papkia , the silver - washed fritillary, was seen at 
Symond’s Hyde Wood by Miss Dickinson on August 1st. The only 
species of Vanessa reported is V. atalanta , the red admiral, a small 
specimen of which was seen by the same observer so early as 
August 22nd. Miss Dickinson also remarks that the common 
blue, Lyccena icarus , generally so abundant, was scarce, and the 
same remark applies to the holly-blue, L. argiolus , one specimen 
only of which was seen between Redbourn and Hemel Hempstead. 
This latter species was not observed in my garden in 1904. The 
two commonest skippers, Syrichthus alveolus and Thanaos tages, were 
scarce, and a few specimens of the small skipper, Hesperia linea , 
were taken by Miss Dickinson at Symond’s Hyde on August 1st. 
One of the interesting features of the year has been the com¬ 
paratively large number of captures throughout the country of 
the striped hawk-moth, Deilephila livornica. Its headquarters 
were apparently at Bournemouth, but specimens were caught in 
nearly all the southern counties from Cornwall to Kent, and it 
