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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE GEOMKTRIDJE (continued) Euchloris lactearia, L. Bricket Wood and Symonds Hyde (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Durrant); Hailey- bury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud); Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Hemel Hempitead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elli- man) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Mr. Barraud finds this species to be rather scarce at Bushey Heath ; Mr. Boyd says that it is common round Cheshunt ; Mr. Elliman reports that in the Tring district it is very common in the lanes and woods Geometra papilionaria, L. Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Bricket Wood (Cottam, Cutts) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland- Brown) ; Grove Lodge, Tring (Foulkes) ; Berkhamsted (Goodson) ; Stortford (Mellows) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) Occasionally taken at ' light ' and dusk Pseudoterpna pruinata, Hufn. (cytisaria, Schiff.). Sandridge (Griffith) ; Kneb- worth (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer), ' formerly on Heath,' School List ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Brown's Lane, Tring (Goodson) Not very abundant MONOCTENIAD.* Baptria atrata, L. (chaerophyllata, L.). Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' rare, School List ; East Barnet (Gillum, Dymond) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland- Brown) ; Colney Heath (Pilbrow) A local species. At Colney Heath it occurs only in one corner of a large field, which corner, about two acres in extent, is laid down with permanent grass Erannis aescularia, SchifF. St. Allans, Bricket Wood and Harpenden (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey and Nascot Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Common in most of the districts Brephos parthenias, L. Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- ford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Bow- den) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Gryme's Dyke, Herts side, March 31 st, 1893 (H. Rowland-Brown) MONOCTENIADJE (continued) Occasionally met with in March and April flying in the sunshine SELIDOSEMIDJE Opisthograptis liturata, Cl. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' once,' School List clathrata, L. Aldbury, Bricket Wood and Bamville Wood Farm, Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; abundant on railway embankment near Hitchin (Matthews) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Watford (Spen- cer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Eastbury (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Hemel He mpstead (B. Piffard); Tring (Elliman, Cot- tam) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor) luteolata, L. (cratasgata, L.). St. Allans (A E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; Watford (Cutts, Spencer) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Hammond Street, Cheshunt (Boyd) Taken at ' light ' at Haileybury ; scarce at Cheshunt ; local but common where it occurs in the Tring district Diastictis wauaria, L. (wavaria, F.). St. Allans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- raud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bishop Stort- ford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A fairly common species roboraria, SchifF. Haileybury (Bowyer), ' three at light," ' School List consortaria, F. Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) Ectropis luridata, Bkh. (extersaria, Hb.). Bricket Wood (Cottam, Spencer, A. E. G.) ; Haileybury (Bower), ' Roman- road,' School List ; Broxbourne Woods (Boyd) biundularia(crepuscularia, Hb.; laricaria, Dbld.). Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Bushey (Cutts, H. Rowland-Brown); Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Waltham Cross (Boyd) Mr. Elliman takes this insect in the same stations and at about the same time as E. consonaria ; it is fairly common in the Tring district ; elsewhere it is scarce consonaria, Hb. Tring (Elliman) ; Broxbourne Woods (Boyd) Mr. Elliman says this species is evidently well distributed through the hilly woods of the district ; the 138