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 INSECTS SEUDOSEMID.S: (continued) lum) ; Nascot Wood (Cutts) ; Wat- ford (Heaton) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; near Little Hadham (Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Described as common in the Haileybury School List. Mr. Elli- man finds it to be moderately com- mon at Tring, where he has found the larvas on spindle (Euonymus europasus). Mr. Barraud has taken two specimens, both of the normal type. It is scarce round Cheshunt Deilinia pusaria, L. (rotundaria, Hw.). Bridget Wood, St. jf/bans, Symonds Hyde and Bamville Wood Farm, Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitckin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey and Oxhey Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Bar- raud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Common. D. rotundaria as dis- tinct from pusaria is recorded from Sandridge by Mr. Griffith and from East Barnet by Colonel Gillum exanthemata, Sc. St. Allans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Oxhey Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown); Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Common Ourapteryx sambucaria, L. St. Allans and Harpenden (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bricket Wood and Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Royston (A. H. Kingston) A common species Metrocampa prosapiaria, L. (fasciaria, Schiff.). Hitchin (Durrant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Waltham Cross (Boyd) Scarce margaritaria, L. St. Allans and Zouches, Dunstable (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury SELIDOSEMID^: (continued) (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild, Elliman) ; Long Meadow, Bishop Stanford (Mellows) ; Cheshunt and Waltham Cross (Boyd) Mr. Elliman says that this species is moderately common in the Tring district, chiefly in the beech woods. It well repays breeding ; the larvae may be obtained easily as soon as the beech is well out in leaf. Mr. Mellows has taken several specimens while beating the hedges in Long Meadow. Other recorders take it occasionally Metrocampa pulveraria, L. Bricket Wood (A. E. G.); Watford(Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Haileybury (Stockley) A few specimens of this insect are to be taken every year at Bricket Wood. Mr. Stockley says it has been captured two or three times at Hailey- bury, but is scarce dolabraria, L. St. Allans and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- ford (Spencer) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Wigginton (Foulkes) ; Bishop Start- ford (Mellows) Taken occasionally at ' light ' and at dusk. The Rev. H. Harpur Crewe records in Zoologist, xi. 4,037, rearing a specimen ' from a larva beaten off oak in July, Herts ' Euchlasna prunaria, L. Bricket Wood (Cottam, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' School List ; East Barnet (Bowden) ; Oxhey Wood (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer) Not very abundant ; varies a good deal apiciaria, Schiff. Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Heaton) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Le Quesne) ; Wilstone reservoir (Elliman) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) Not generally abundant, but com- mon at Cheshunt Marsh Selenia bilunaria, Esp. (illunaria, Hb.). St. Albans and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; 141