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 INSECTS CARADRINID-K (continued) August in Herts and Bucks. It is not a common species Melanchra caespitis, F. Nascot Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Aldbury Outers (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A rare and very local species reticulata, Vill. (saponariae, Bkh.). Sandridge (Griffith); Hai/eybury (Bow- yer) ; Nascot Wood and Bushey (Cutts); Watford (Cottam) ; Tring (Le Quesne, Elliman) serena, F. Wheathampstead (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith, A. E. G.) ; Hit- chin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer); East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey and Nascot Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spen- cer, Wigg) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elli- man) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) This moth may in some years be found in considerable numbers in the daytime at rest in the crevices of bark of oak, elm and other trees. It also occurs on fences. On the whole it cannot be described as a common insect chrysozona, Bkh. (dysodea, Hb.). Sand- ridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer); Hertford (Stephens) ; Hitchin station (Durrant) ; Stanford (Mellows) ; Cheshunt Street (Boyd) Mr. Mellows has taken this moth in his study, where it has been at- tracted by the light. At Haileybury it has been found twice on palings. Mr. Boyd describes it as scarce trifolii, Rott. (chenopodii, F.). St. Albans (A. Lewis) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (School List); Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Waltham Cross (Boyd) dentina, Esp. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts); Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- raud) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland- Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Fairly common at 'light,' 'sugar' and fences in most of the districts, but scarce round Cheshunt genistas, Bkh. Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Cottam) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A scarce species CARADRINID.S (continued) Melanchra thalassina, Rott. St. Albans and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith); Haileybury(Bowyer); Wat- ford (Cutts, Wigg, Cottam) ; Bushey Heath (Cottam) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) dissimilis, Kn. (suasa, Bkh.). Watford (Spencer) ; Haileybury (School List) oleracea, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A very common insect pisi, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Cottam, Spencer) ; Wigginton Common, larvae (Elliman) advena, F. St. Albans, Harpenden (A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Nascot Wood (Cutts) ; Tring and Wilstone (Elliman) ; Waltham Cross (Boyd) Occasionally taken at flowers, ' sugar ' and ' light ' nebulosa, Hufn. Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood (Cutts, H. Rowland-Brown) ; Watford (Hea- ton, Wigg) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) Common brassicae, L. A garden pest and too abundant everywhere persicariae, L. Almost as common as the preceding species Agrotis corticea, Hb. Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) segetum, SchifF. Very common and destructive ypsilon, Rott. (suffusa, Hb.). St. Albans and Wheathampstead (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (A. E. G., Cottam) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey and Nascot Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Le Quesne, Foulkes) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Fairly common in mid-Herts, but scarce at Cheshunt exclamationis, L. A common and vari- able species 121