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 INSECTS HYDRIOMENID.S (continued) Mr. Bernard Piffard thus records the capture of the Hemel Hempstead specimen : ' A single male specimen of this local insect has been taken here early in July. It was beaten from a very thick hedge under the shelter of a high bank. The hedge runs between the cemetery and Anchor Lane ' (Entomologist, xxxiii. 249) Philereme rhamnata, Schiff. Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Durrant) ; Hert- ford (Stephens) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Goodson) Eustroma prunata, L. (ribesiaria, B.). St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer), ' Goose Green,' School List ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Tring (Elliman) associata, Bkh. (dotata, Gn. non L.). St. Albam (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Chef- bunt (Boyd) A rather common insect testata, L. Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Wihtone reservoir (Elliman) ; Ches- hunt (Boyd) Fairly common Plemyria bicolorata, Hufn. (rubiginata, F.). Brooklands Farm, Ehtree (A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' School List ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Tring (Elliman) rivata (Hb.). Bricket Wood and Ashridge (A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Wat- ford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) Occasionally taken ; scarce at Cheshunt Marsh sociata, Bkh. (subtristata, Hw. ; biri- viata, Stt.). Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Cutts, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- raud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A common species HYDRIOMENID/'E (continued) Cataclysme virgata, Rott. (lineolata, Hb.). Sandridge (Griffith) Hydriomena ocellata, L. Bricket Wood and Bamuille Wood Farm, Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Watford (Spencer, Hea- ton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Ches- hunt (Boyd) Generally common at ' light ' and on palings simulata, Hb. (coniferata, Stt.). Hailey- bury (School List) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Common round Cheshunt, but rare at Haileybury variata, Schiff. (obeliscata, Hb.). St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) Occasionally taken at ' sugar ' and light ' juniperata, L. Tring (Elliman) fulvata, Forst. St. Albans and Harpen- den (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A common species at ' light ' and dusk, and may often be beaten from hedges dotata, L. (pyraliata, F.). St. Albans and Bamville Wood Farm, Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Row- land-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Common in most of the districts picata, Hb. St. Albans, Bricket Wood and Bamville Wood Farm, Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' School List ; Watford (Cutts, Spencer, Wigg); Churchgate, Cheshunt (Boyd) Occasionally taken. Mr. Boyd has only captured one specimen round Cheshunt 133