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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE SATYRID^; (continued) Parage aegeria, L. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrani) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; Watford (Spencer) ; near Stub- bing! Wood, Tring (Foulkes) ; Steven- age (Matthews) Mr. Elliman reports that P. aegeria is not at all abundant in the Tring district, though Mr. Le Quesne and he have taken it rather plentifully in Hengrove Wood and towards Wen- dover Hall on the Bucks side of the county boundary. Mr. Matthews finds it to be fairly common near woods in the neighbourhood of Steven- age megaera, L. St. Allans and Knebworth (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Wat- ford (Wigg) ; Tring (A. M. Brown) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Railway bank, Oxhey (H. Rowland-B ro wn) Satyrus semele, L. Haileybury Heath, (School List). ' I am told it may be taken on the Harpenden road near Childwick ' (Perkins, Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society, ii. 68). This neighbourhood is well known to me, but I have failed to find S. semele in the locality mentioned by Mr. Perkins Epinephile tithonus, L. St. Albans and Shenley (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Watford (Spencer, Hea- ton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Letchmore Heath (H. Row- land-Brown) janira, L. St. Albans, Elstree and Shen- ley (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bow- yer) ; Hertford (J. Hopkinson) ; Wat- ford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Matthews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; South-west Herts, common (H. Rowland-Brown) hyperanthus, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Aldbury, in wood above rifle butts (Cottam) ; Tring, very abundant in most of the woods, but apparently not straying far from them (Elliman) ; Stevenage (Mat- thews) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) ; Royston (A. H. Kingston) SATYRID.: (continued') Ccenonympha pamphilus, L. This very common species is widely distributed through the county ERYCINIDJE Nemeobius lucina, L. Berkhamsted Com- mon (G. H. Raynor, Newman's Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies and Moths, 105); Dancer's End, Tring (Hon. N. Charles Roth- schild, Goodson) LYCJENID^E Thecla rubi, L. Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Aldbury (Cottam) ; on the downs above Aldbury and near Pit- stone, sparingly (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild) ; Tring (Elliman) The last-named observer says that T. rubi is usually abundant about the beech woods both in Herts and Bucks w-album, Kn. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Knebworth (Durrant) ; Hemel Hemp- stead, ' in thousands ' (B. Piffard, Entomologists' Monthly Magazine xviii. 68) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton) ; Haileybury, over a dozen specimens caught on the Roman road, 1900 (Stockley) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor, Mellows, the latter observer recording the capture of about two dozen in Long Meadow in July, 1900) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild informs me that Mr. Jopling took three specimens at Hemel Hempstead in 1899 betulas, L. Norton Green Woods, about a mile south-west of Stevenage, not common (Matthews) quercus, L. Bricket Wood, Radlett and Shenley (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton, Wigg) ; Brown's Lane, in abundance, and Cow Lane, near the station, Tring (Hon. L. Walter Rothschild) ; Nor- ton Green Woods (Matthews) ; Brox- bourne Woods (Boyd) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) This is the most abundant of the Hertfordshire Hairstreaks. I have beaten the larvae in considerable numbers from young oak trees at Bricket Wood Chrysophanus minimus, Fuesl. (alsus, F.). Hitchin (Durrant) ; Hertford (Ste- phens) ; Letchworth (Knapp, Ento- mologists' Weekly Intelligencer, ii. 155); 150