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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE CARADRINIDJE (continued) Monima miniosa, F. Bricket Wood(h.. Lewis, Cutts, Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Watford ^Spencer) ; Sandridge (Griffith) Bricket Wood appears to be the headquarters for this insect. Although it cannot be said to be abundant, it is to be taken at sallows nearly every spring, and in some years much more plentifully than others pulverulentula, Esp. (cruda, Tr.). St. Albans, Park Street, Wheathampstead and Hawks-wick (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood and Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- raud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elli- man) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) This is the smallest and at the same time the commonest of the Hertfordshire Monimae, often occur- ring at sallows in great profusion. The only observer who reports it as being ' not very common ' is Mr. Barraud. Next to this the most abundant species are stabilis, gothica and incerta munda, Esp. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Oxhey Wood and Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Spencer) M. munda and miniosa do not appear to have been noticed in the northern and eastern parts of the county, while Mr. Boyd is the only observer who has taken M. populeti in either of those districts gothica, L. St. Albans, Park Street and Wheathampstead (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (A. Lewis, Cottam, A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood, Bushey and Nascot Wood (Cutts); Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey railway bank (H. Rowland-Brown); Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Ches- hunt (Boyd) M. opima is the only species be- longing to this genus which has not been recorded as occurring in the county CARADRINID.S (continued) Charaeas graminis, L. Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts); Boxmoor (A. Piffard) ; Aldbury (Elli- man, Cottam) A local insect, Aldbury Owers being the station at which it is most abun- dant Neuronia popularis, F. St. Albans, Harpenden and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sand- ridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Royston (Ste- phens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- raud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring (Le Quesne) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Panolis piniperda, Panz. Hertford (Ste- phens) ; Watford (Wigg) Mr. Stephens captured the first British specimen of this moth at Hertford in April, 1 8 1 o (Illustrations of British Entomology, iii. 20) Harmodia nana, Rott. (conspersa, Esp.). Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' once on Baits Park palings,' School List carpophaga, Bkh. Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; St. Albans (Griffith) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Cottam) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Pif- fard) ; Tring (Elliman); 'Herts' (Rev. H. Harpur Crewe) This is rather a scarce moth, several of the recorders having taken but one specimen each. The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe (Zoologist, xi. 4,037) records having bred this insect from larvae found on seeds of Selene inflata in July and August in Herts, Bucks and Derbyshire. The larvae lie coiled up between the calyx and" the seed vessel of the plant (ibid. xii. 4,192). Mr. Elliman reports that the larvae are very plentiful at Tring capsincola, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Watford (Wigg) ; Tring (Foulkes) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) cucubali, Fuesl. St. Albans and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Wigg) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Pif- fard, Rev. H. Harpur Crewe) ; Carpenders Park (H. Rowland- Brown) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe (Zoo- logist, xi. 4,037) records the capture of larvae on Selene inflata in July and 120