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 INSECTS CARADRINIDJE (continued) Fairly common ; Mr. Barraud has not seen it for some years Agrotis xanthographa, F. Very common in all the districts. A nuisance at ' sugar ' umbrosa, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; used to occur at Cheshunt Street (Boyd) rubi, View, (bella, Bkh.). St. Albans and Symonds Hyde (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. Lewis, A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Durrani) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Rather common at ' light ' and ' sugar ' dahlii, Hb. Haileybury (Stockley) festiva, Hb. (conflua, Tr.). St. Albans and Radlett (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts), Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Wat- ford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Hemel Hemp- stead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) Moderately common stigmatica, Hb. (rhomboidea, Tr.). St. Albans (A. Lewis) ; Harpenden (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam) ; Duckmore Lane, Tring (Elliman) ; Waltham Cross (Boyd) Uncommon. Several observers have only captured this species once. Mr. Stockley writing from Hailey- bury says ' rhomboidea and dahlii have both been taken several times at " sugar " typica, L. St. Albans, Shenley (pupa) and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg, Heaton) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A rather common species Triphasna fimbria, L. Bricket Wood (Cot- tam, Cutts, A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Tring (Hon. C. Walter Rothschild, Elliman) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) CARADRINID.S: (continued) This species is occasionally taken both at 'sugar' and Might.' It is scarce in some of the districts. At Bricket Wood the larvae may be beaten from sallows in the spring Triphaena ianthina, Esp. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Heaton, Cottam) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) In some districts this species comes plentifully to ' light.' Mr. Boyd finds it to be scarce round Cheshunt interjecta, Hb. Sparrowswick, St. Albans (A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Hert- ford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Duck- more Lane, Tring (Elliman) ; Ches- hunt (Boyd) Although common round Cheshunt this species is scarce in most of the districts baja, F. Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Symonds Hyde (A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Oxhey Wood (Cutts) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) Not a generally common insect, though occasionally, as at Symonds Hyde in August, 1893, '* comes to ' sugar ' in large numbers rubricosa, F. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Bricket Wood (A. Lewis, Cutts, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood and Bushey (Cutts) ; Oxhey railway bank (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Watford (Wigg, Spencer); Stubbings Wood (Elliman) ; Tring (A. T. Goodson) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) Occasionally taken at sallows prasina, F. (herbida, Hb.). Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; Roundhill Wood, Tring (Elli- man) A few specimens of this moth have been taken at ' sugar ' ; it is not a common insect Heliothis armigera, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) peltigera, Schiff. Hitchin, one speci- men in 1884 (Durrant) ochracea, Hb. (flavago, Esp.). St. Albans, Radlett and Harpenden, in