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 INSECTS PYRALIDID^ (continued} Bushey Heath, fairly common at ' light ' (Barraud) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) Pyralis costalis, F. (fimbrialis, SchifF.). St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) farinalis, L. St. Albans and Bamvilh Wood, Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Goodson) ; Bishop Stortford (Tay- lor) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) Aglossa pinguinalis, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant); Oxhey (H. Rowland- Brown) ; Tring (Goodson) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) cuprealis, Hb. Scndrldge (Griffith) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; scarce round Cheshunt (Boyd) PTEROPHORID.S Platyptilia acanthodactyla, Hb. Common round Cheshunt (Boyd) gonodactyla, Schiff. (trigonodactylus, Stt.). Bricket Wood and Wheat- hampstead (A. E. G.) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) bertrami, Rsl. Sandridge (Griffith) ochrodactyla, Hb. Two at Waltbam Cross (Boyd) rhododactyla, F. Hertford (Stephens) ; one at ' light ' at Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) Pterophorus pentadactylus, L. St. Albans and Brook/and's Farm, Elstree (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) spilodactylus,Curt. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) Marasmarcha phaeodactyla, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) microdactyla, Hb. Hitchin (Durrant) Alucita monodactyla, L. (pterodactyla, Hb.). St. Albans, Bricket Wood and Radlett (A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Durrant) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) lithodactyla, Tr. Sandridge (Griffith) Stenoptilia pterodactyla, L. (fuscus, Retz. ; fuscodactylus, Hw.). St. Albans PTEROPHORIDJE (continued) (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) Stenoptilia zophodactyla, Dup. (loewii, Z.). Sandridge (Griffith) bipunctidactyla, Hw. Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; scarce round Cheshunt (Boyd) ORNEODIDJE Orneodes hexadactyla, L. (polydactyla, Hb.). St. Albans and Bricket Wood(A.. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Bushey Heath, fairly common (Barraud) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) PSYCHINA ZEUZERID^E Zeuzera pyrina, L. (aesculi, L.). St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Welwyn (G. Buller) ; Sandridge (Griffith); Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum); Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Steve- nage (Matthews) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Often taken on the trunks of apple trees, in the wood of which the larvae feed ZYGJ-ENID.* Zygsena filipendulae, L. Shenley and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Hailey- bury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gil- lum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Railway bank, Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Canal bank, Tring (Cottam, Elliman) ; Dancer's End (Hon. N. Charles Rothschild) ; Norton Green (Mat- thews) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor, Mellows) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Royston (A. H. Kingston) Abundant in certain localities lonicerx, Esp. Haileybury (Bowyer), Skipper fields,' School List trifolii, Esp. Hitchin (Durrant) ; Ough- ton Head (F. Latchmore) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. Piffard) ; Cheshunt and Bayford (Boyd) Mr. Matthews of Stevenage says this species is very local, and only to be found at Oughton Head near Hitchin amid the rushes and reeds on the swampy ground ; very common there. Mr. Boyd describes it as a local species 155