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 INSECTS (continued) L. Walter Rothschild) ; New Barnet (H. C. Regnart, Entomologist, xxx. 1 8) ; East Barnet, pupae (Bowden) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop Start- ford (Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Considerable numbers of the larvae and pupae are sometimes found in potato fields, and in the Haileybury School List the imago is recorded to have come to ' light.' Mr. Minall's specimen was taken at rest on a telegraph post in Aylesbury Road, Tring, and is now in the Hon. L. Walter Rothschild's collection Smerinthus populi, L. St. Allans (A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant, Latch- more) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- ford (Simmons, Entomologist, vi. 316) ; Busbey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Tring (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild, Elliman) ; Busbey Heath (Barraud) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) The late Mr. Latchmore reported that in 1892 the larvae of S. populi and S. ocellatus were unusually abun- dant in the Hitchin district. The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild possesses a remarkably pale yellow variety without markings of S. populi bred at Tring in 1900 ocellatus, L. St. Allans (A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant, Latchmore) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Watton-at-Stone (Hodges, Entomologist, vii. 233) ; Nascot Wood (Cutts); Watford (Spencer, Cutts); East Barnet (Gillum) ; Tring and Wilstone reservoir (Elliman) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Steven- age (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Mr. Elliman finds the larvae of this species pretty freely in the Tring district, but chiefly about Wilstone reservoir. Mr. Arthur Lewis of St. Albans possesses an interesting speci- men, which appears to be a hybrid between this species and S. populi Dilina tiliae, L. St. Albans, Harpenden (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Heaton, Wigg) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Tring (Hon. N. Charles Rothschild) ; Bishop SPHINGID^E (continued) Stortford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Steven- age (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Roy ston (A. H. Kingston) The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild figures and describes in Entomologist, xxvii. 50, a very curious aberrant form (male) bred in 1893 from a larva found at Tring in September, 1892. A very yellow variety was found at St. Albans and brought to me in 1888 NOTODONTIDJE Pygaera pigra, Hufn. (reclusa, F.). East Barnet (Gillum) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) Scarce curtula, L. Sandridge (Griffith) Notodonta ziczac, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant, Gatward) ; Hailey- bury (Bowyer), ' Heath, Hailey Lane,' School List ; Watford (Heaton) ; Bushey, electric light, 1900 (V. P. Kitchin) ; Wilstone reservoir (Elli- man) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Taken twice at Haileybury ; scarce round Cheshunt. Mr. Gatward has taken the larvae on a weeping willow at Hitchin dromedarius, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Watford (Spen- cer) ; near Berkhamsted (Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, Zoologist, x. 3,625) ; Little Tring reservoir (Elliman) Drymonia dictaeoides, Esp. Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Stockley) ; East Barnet (Bowden) ; Tring (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild) Rare. Mr. Stockley says this in- sect has not been taken for a long time tremula, Cl. (dictaea, Esp.). Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; near Berkhamsted, larvae (Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, Zoologist, x. 3,625) ; Wilstone reservoir (Elli- man) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) When the Haileybury School List was published in 1888 this had been taken three times at ' light.' Mr. Stockley writes that four larvae were taken in 1899. Mr. Spencer took one larva at Watford. Mr. Boyd describes it as scarce at Cheshunt Marsh trepida, Esp. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; near Berk- 145