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Perhaps the most interesting thing to he recorded with regard 
to the butterflies is the fact that the holly-blue (. Lyccena orgiolus ) 
is becoming much more common with us than formerly, at any rate 
so far as the St. Albans district is concerned. It was taken in some 
abundance by Miss Alice Dickinson, Mr. A. Lewis, and myself, both 
the May and August broods being noted. The chalk-hill blue 
{L. corydon) was to be found in the lucerne-field near St. Albans 
in which it was discovered by Miss Dickinson last year. Mr. A. 
Cottam took both broods of Lyccena adonis (bellargus ) at Aldbury. 
I am glad to learn from Miss Dickinson that she has found the 
white-letter hair-streak ( Theda w-album ) to be plentiful, and that 
she captured specimens at both lucerne and blackberry blossoms. 
Colias hyale again made its appearance in the county in limited 
numbers. On June 6th Mr. Cottam saw two specimens on Aldbury 
Downs. He did not take them, as he hoped for the second brood, 
but in the Autumn he saw only one at the same place, and none 
elsewhere in the neighbourhood. Miss Dickinson and Mr. Lewis 
saw this insect near St. Albans. C. edusa is not reported. 
With regard to the Sphingidse or hawk-moths, the most noticeable 
feature was the comparative abundance of the convolvulus hawk- 
moth {Sphinx convolvuli), which is reported by Mr. W. C. Boyd from 
Waltham Cross, by the Bev. G. H. Baynor, M.A., at Weston Vicarage, 
by Mr. P. J. Barraud at Bushey Heath, by Mr. Cottam at Watford, 
and by myself at St. Albans. At the latter place the small elephant 
hawk-moth ( Chcerocampa porcellus) was taken, a specimen from 
a garden near the Camp being sent to Miss Dickinson, and one 
from Beaconsfield Boad coming into my possession. A full-fed larva 
of the large elephant hawk-moth ( C. elpenor ) was taken by Mr. B. 
Angel in his garden in George Street, St. Albans. It had evidently 
fed on vine-leaves, and it pupated directly it came into my possession. 
Miss Dickinson reports that the caterpillars of the death’s head 
hawk-moth were rather plentiful in potato-fields in the neighbour¬ 
hood, but she heard of them too late to secure them, though on 
October 4th and 22nd specimens from near Wheathampstead were 
sent to her, one of which was injured by the plough and died. 
Many of these interesting larvse appear to have been destroyed 
as worthless u grubs.” One or two specimens of the privet hawk- 
moth ( Sphinx ligustri) were brought to me, and I took a newly 
emerged imago of the lime hawk-moth ( Smerinthus tilice ) in a yard 
in the centre of St. Albans. Mr. A. Cottam is the only entomologist 
reporting the presence of the poplar hawk-moth (S. populi), one 
of which came to light at his window on July 6th. Mr. Barraud 
reports that a few humming-bird hawk-moths ( Macroglossa 
stellatarum ) were seen at Bushey Heath. 
I spread the first sugar of the season in my own meadow at 
St. Albans on May 14th, and on that evening and for some little 
time afterwards I took only hybernated specimens of the herald- 
moth ( Gonoptera libatrix). In September by this means I secured 
a good series of Folia flavicincta on the same trees, while the large 
red under wing ( Catocala nupta ) was exceptionally common in. all 
