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occurring at Watford, near Boxmoor, and at Tring on the Aldbury 
side of the railway. The Hon. C. Walter Eothschild, M.P., 
informs me that C. edusa was taken near Tring Windmill, and he 
captured several specimens of C. hyale within the county limits, 
though the hulk of about fifty specimens of the latter insect taken 
by himself, his brother, and the Tring Museum staff were found 
nearer Halton, on the Bucks side of the border. Mr. A. B. Heath, 
of Willesden, contributes a note to the 4 Entomologist ’ of the 
capture of C. edusa a mile or two east of Eadlett Station. It is also 
reported from Haileybury by Mr. Stoekley, and I saw a specimen 
flying in St. Peter’s Street, St. Albans, in August. Mr. Arthur 
Lewis and Miss A. Dickinson took both species in some abundance 
in a clover-field on Hew Harm, a mile north of the town. The 
variety of C. edusa known as Jielice is reported by Mr. A. T. 
Goodson of Tring, and Mr. A. Cottam of Watford. Contrary to 
the usual state of things, C. hyale has been more abundant in 1900 
than C. edusa. 
I am able to add two butterflies to our list. Thecla betulce , the 
brown hairstreak, has been taken, though I think not in 1900, by 
Mr. Matthews of Stevenage, in Horton Green Woods ; and 
a notable capture during the past year is that of one of the most 
brilliant of our British butterflies, Lyccena bellargus {adonis'). It 
was captured by Mr. Arthur Cottam, at Aldbury, in the first week 
in September, and the Hon. H. Charles Eothschild also took it at 
the same place, and at Dancer’s End. Mr. A. H. Kingston informs 
me that it is to be taken at Eoyston. Other “blues” recorded 
during the year are L . corydon , the chalk-hill blue, taken both by 
Mr. Arthur Lewis and Miss A. Dickinson at Hew Earm, and 
L. argiolus , the holly blue, occurring in the same neighbourhood. 
A melancholy interest attaches to one of the most important 
records of the year. The Camberwell beauty ( Vanessa antiopa) has 
been unusually abundant in England in 1900, and a specimen was 
captured in a class-room at the Hatfield Eoad Board School, 
St. Albans, by Mr. H. E. Yincer, one of the masters. Unfortunately 
Mr. Yincer has since fallen a victim to his love of science, for by 
a fatal error he drank some silver cyanide which he had prepared 
for experimental purposes. There are two other records of the 
occurrence of V. antiopa in our county in 1900, one having been 
seen near Brown’s Lane, Tring, by the Hon. C. Walter Eothschild, 
and the second having been taken near Hatfield by a gentleman 
signing himself “F. W. E.,” a note of the capture appearing above 
those initials in the 4 Entomologist.’ 
Turning from the butterflies to the moths, I am pleased to say 
that Plusia moneta , about which Mr. S. H. Spencer gave us some 
interesting information in his notes on the insects of 1896, is still 
with us, Mr. W. C. Boyd having taken two specimens at Waltham 
Cross. Mr. P. J. Barraud again took Orthosia suspecta at Bushey 
Heath, on July 28th. This is the third specimen taken there. 
He also reports that Eupithecia pumilata occurs at Bushey Heath 
every year ; but until now it has not been recorded for the county. 
