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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE CARADR.iNiD.ffi (continued) Agrotis nigricans, L. Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Occasionally taken at ' light ' and flowers saucia, Hb. St. Albans (A. Lewis, A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith); Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Ste- phens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Nas- cot Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Wigg) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Occasionally taken at ' sugar ' cinerea, Hb. Feldon, Eoxmoor (A. Piffard) Mr. A. Cottam, in a paper pre- sented to the Hertfordshire Natural History Society (Transactions, x. 1 88), records the capture of three males at Feldon, Eoxmoor, at ' light ' by Mr. Albert Piffard in 1897. This is the only county record, and the insects are in Mr. Cottam's collection puta, Hb. St. Allans (A. Lewis, A. E. G.); Watford (Spencer); Bricket Wood (Cottam) ; Haileybury (School List) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- raud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Waltham Cross (Boyd) A. puta comes sparingly to ' sugar ' and ' light.' It cannot be called a common species in Hertfordshire plecta, L. Bricket Wood and St. Albans (A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin and Knebworth (Durrant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Nascot Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Row- land-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Common and generally distributed - strigula, Thnb. (porphyrea, Hb.). Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' School List ; Watford (Cottam) ; Tring (Elliman) tritici, L. Hitchin (Durrant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford, one specimen at ' light ' (Cottam) augur, F. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- ford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Nascot Wood and Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. CARADRINID^ (continued') Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt Street (Boyd) Generally abundant at ' light ' and 'sugar.' Mr. Boyd reports that it used to be common at Cheshunt Street Agrotis obscura, Brh. (ravida, Hb.). Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A scarce species ; taken twice at ' light ' at Haileybury putris, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) A. putris is occasionally taken, chiefly at ' light.' Mr. Elliman finds the pupas in the Tring district at the foot of elm trees c-nigrum, L. St. Albans, Wheathamp- stead (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Nascot Wood and Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Stortford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Abundant in most of the districts, and especially common in mid-Herts in 1 900. Mr. Barraud has only taken a few specimens at Bushey Heath triangulum, Hufn. Harpenden(A.Y..G.); Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- ford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Described as ' common at "light" ' in the Haileybury School List, but scarce in other districts pronuba, L. A plentiful species, occur- ring in all the districts comes, Hb. (orbona, F.). Another abundant species, almost as common as the preceding brunnea, F. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (A. Lewis, Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) 122