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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE PLUSIAD/E (Hypenides) (continued') At ' light ' ; common round Ches- bunt Herminia barbalis, Cl. Hertford (Stephens) ; Hitchin (Durrani) Hypena rostralis, L. Bricket Wood and St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Collam) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) proboscidalis, L. St. Albans (A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrani) ; Hertford (Ste- phens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cults) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- raud) ; Watford (Cotlam) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Start- ford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Avenlia flexula, Schiff. Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Bricket Wood (Cults, Collam) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; has occurred at Bayford and Cheshunt (Boyd) PLUSIAD/E (Plusiades) Ophiusa paslinum, Tr. Caughl al Kneb- worth by Mr. Benjamin Brown, formerly of Deard's End Farm (Griffilh, Transactions of the Hert- fordshire Natural History Society, iii. 266) Scoliopteryx libatrix, L. St. Albans, Bricket Wood and Wheathampstead (A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffilh); Hitchin (Durrani, F. Latchmore) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood and Bushey (Culls) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Spencer, Healon, Wigg) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elli- man) ; Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Generally abundanl, but Mr. Barraud does not find this species to be very common at Bushey Heath Plusia monela, F. Watford (Cottam) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Skipp) ; Waltham Cross (Boyd) This insecl, which was firsl laken in Great Britain at Dover as recenlly as 1890, appears lo be establishing ilself in Hertfordshire. The first specimen captured in ihe county was caught by Mr. Arthur Cotlam in Watford on June igih, 1896. The capture is recorded in the Transac- tions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, ix. 236. Mr. Cot- tam was catching the moths thai came to a large clump of honey- suckle then in full flower in the garden of Elmcote with ihe lale Mr. PLUSIADJE (Plusiades) (continued} Clarence E. Fry, who then resided there. In the same year it was taken at Hastoe near Tring by John Skipp, then setter and assistanl at the Hon. L. Waller Rolhschild's museum, eighl specimens being se- cured in ihe lasl week of June and firsl week of July. On July i8lh, 1899, Mr. Barraud look a splendid specimen of P. monela in his lighl Irap at Bushey Heath. The most recent records are by Mr. W. C. Boyd, who took two specimens at Waltham Cross in 1900 Plusia chrysitis, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffilh) ; Hitchin (Dur- rani) ; Weluiyn (G. Buller) ; Hailey- bury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Bushey (Culls) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Spencer, Hea- ton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Royston (A. H. Kingslon) Common in many localilies festucae, L. Watford (Collam) iota, L. St. Albans and Hatfield (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrani) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Culls) ; Watford (Collam, Spencer) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Steven- age (Matthews) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Ralher common al ' lighl ' and flowers pulchrina, Hw. (v-aureum, Gn.). Har- penden (A. E. G.) ; Weluiyn (Buller) ; Hai/eybury(Bowyer) ; Bushey (Culls) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Tring (Le Quesne, Elli- man) ; Bishop Stanford (Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Ralher local ; fairly abundant in some localities, but only occasionally met with in others gamma, L. An abundant and widely distributed species, but variable in numbers in different seasons. Thus in 1892 it is noted by Mr. Spencer as being very abundant at Watford, but in the following year it was seldom met with. Mr. H. Rowland- Brown of Harrow Weald observed that it was again scarce on the Middlesex border in 1881 interrogationis, L. Once al Cheshunt Street (Boyd) 128