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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE LASIOCAMPIDJE (continued) Odonestis potatoria, L. St. Albans and Wheathampstead, larvae (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- ford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Clothall and Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Oxbey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop Start- ford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) A common species Gastropacha quercifolia, L. St. Albans (A. Lewis, A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrani) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Bowden) ; Watford (Cottam, V. P. Kitchin, A. Stoyel) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Shire Lane, Tring (S. W. Jenney, jun.) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Ches- hunt (Boyd) Abundant in 1890 in Watford and St. Albans. At the latter place a railway employ^ took a considerable number both on the street lamps and at the signal box at the station in the early morning. The larvae are taken commonly at Haileybury, Stevenage and Bishop Stortford ; one perfect insect taken at Tring and one at Bushey Heath. Occurs at ' light ' most years in the Cheshunt district PAPILIONINA NYMPHALID.S: Argynnis paphia, L. Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Longcroft and Brown's Lane, Tring (Elliman) ; Hitch Wood and other woods, Stevenage, sometimes very common (Matthews) The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild considers that the three larger species of Argynnis are much scarcer than formerly adippe, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Tring Woods (Elliman) aglaia, L. Haileybury (Bowyer) ; near Grove Wood, Tring (Le Quesne) ; Brown's Lane, Tring (Hon. L. Wal- ter Rothschild) ; Bishop Stortford (Mellows) Mr. Elliman, who reports Mr. Le Quesne's captures, writes with refer- ence to the two last-named species NYMPHALIDJE (continued) that A. adippe appears to be much more plentiful than A. aglaia in the Tring Woods. Mr. Mellows has seen A. aglaia twice in Long Meadow, Bishop Stortford, in 1895 and in 1896 Argynnis lathonia, L. Hertford (Stephens, Illustrations of British Entomology, i. 38, 1828) euphrosyne, L. Bricket Wood, Ash- ridge and Bracket Hall (A. E. G.) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Norton Green Woods, common, (Matthews) ; Bishop Stortford (Mellows) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) This, the most abundant of the Hertfordshire fritillaries, often flies in considerable numbers in woodlands in May and June selene, Schiff. Bricket Wood, sparingly (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Norton Green Woods, common (Matthews) This insect is not so abundant as the preceding species and usually appears later Melitaea aurinia, Rott. (artemis, Hb.). ' Taken at Knebworth Wood by Mr. B. Christian two or three years ago ' (Durrant, in Transactions of the Hert- fordshire Natural History Society, iii. 266) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) Mr. Stockley informs me that M. aurinia has been three times recorded at Haileybury in the last three years. Newman, in his Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies and Moths, gives Drayton Beauchamp as a locality for this species on the authority of the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe. Mr. Elliman believes that the Rev. H. H. Crewe's insects were taken in Bucks ; at any rate it must have been close to the border, and it is very doubtful if this may be claimed as a Hertfordshire record Vanessa c-album. Hertford, abundant prior to 1833 (Stephens, in Illustra- tions of British Entomology, i. 42) ; ' Reported three or four times near Broxbourne ' (Stockley) Mr. Arthur Lewis tells me that when a boy he saw V. c-album near the old Cotton Mills at St. Albans urticas, L. Generally distributed throughout the county polychloros, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- 148