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 INSECTS NYMPHALID-S: (continued) rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Bishop Stanford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Stevenage (Mat- thews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Carpenders (H. Rowland-Brown) This species appears to be decreas- ing in abundance. Twenty years ago I used to take it in considerable numbers, chiefly on the north side of St. Albans, but I have not now seen it for a long time. Mr. Stockley writes from Haileybury that it was formerly obtained annually, but has not been caught for three years. Mr. H. Rowland-Brown in a note at- tached to his Carpenders record says ' not seen of late years.' Mr. Boyd reports it is ' sometimes common ' at Cheshunt. Mr. Matthews at Steven- age only meets with it occasionally, two or three a season. Writing to me in 1893, the late Mr. Frank Latchmore of Hitchin tells the same story of its disappearance. He says : ' Formerly this insect was common at Ickleford. The chrysalides were to be seen hanging from the coping of the walls near the church opposite some lime trees. I have not seen a pupa case at that spot for some years.' It is much to be regretted that this handsome insect seems to be gradu- ally disappearing from Hertford- shire Vanessa io, L. St. Albans, Brocket Hall and Berkhamsted Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hert- ford (R. T. Andrews) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bushey Heath, ' seems to be disappearing ' (Barraud) ; Steven- age (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; West Hyde (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Royston (A. H. Kingston) antiopa, L. St. Albans (Vincer) ; be- tween Watford and St. Albans, 1855 (Humphries, Transactions of the Wat- ford Natural History Society, ii. 70) ; Hertford (Stephens, Illustrations of British Entomology, i. 45); Hoddesdon, 1875 (Cottam, Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society, ii. 1 9) ; Brickendon near Hertford (W. Summers, Entomologist, vi. 2l6) ; Stanstead (Horley, ibid.) ; Hitchin (Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, ix. 107); Southgate, at ' sugar ' (Dymond) ; NYMPHALID^E (continued) Tring (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild); Hatfield (F. W. F.) This very uncertain insect was. seen three times in Hertfordshire in 1900. When riding not far from the entrance to Brown's Lane, Tring, during the first week in September the Hon. L. Walter Rothschild, M.P., saw V. antiopa fly over him. On October ist the late Mr. H. E. Vincer, one of the masters at the Hat- field Road Board School, St. A/bans, captured a specimen of this insect fluttering in the window of one of the classrooms. It passed into the possession of Mr. J. Tomlin, another of the masters in the same school, who lent it for exhibition at a meet- ing of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society on March 26, 1901. ' F. W. F.' records in Entomologist, xxxiii. 303, the capture near Hatfield of a fine specimen about October loth Vanessa atalanta, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- ford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; West Hyde (H. Rowland- Brown) ; Royston (A. H. King- ston) cardui, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- ford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring and Wilstone reservoir (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Bishop Stortford (Mellows) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Royston (A. H. Kingston) This insect is irregular in its appearance, being very plentiful in some seasons but very scarce in others Apatura iris. Hertford (Stephens, July, 1833, Illustrations of British Entomo- l Syy iv - 3 8 SATYR.ID.flE Melanargia galatea, L. Watford, 1878 (Perkins, Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society, ii. 67) ; Woodcock Hill, Elstree (F. Bond, Newman's Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies and Moths, 79) ; Letchworth (Knaggs, Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer, ii. 153) ; Dancer's End, Tring (A. T. Goodson) 149