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 A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE PHALONIAD/E (continued) Phalonia nana, Hw. Sandridge (Griffith) dubitana, Hb. Scarce, Waltham Cross (Boyd) Chlidonia baumanniana, Schiff. (hartmann- iana, Cl.). Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) subbaumanniana, Wilk. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Wilbury Hill, Hitchin (Durrant) Eupoecilia maculosana, Hw. Bridget Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. PifFard) Commophila rugosana, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitcbin (Durrant) ; Hemel Hempstead (B. PifFard) ; scarce round Cheshunt (Boyd) Euxanthis angustana, Tr. Sandridge (Grif- fith) zoegana, L. St. Albans (A. E. G.); Sand- ridge (Griffith) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; common round Cheshunt (Boyd) hamana, L. St. Albans, Wheathamp- steadandZouckes,Dunstal>/e(A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Rickmansworth and Charley Wood (South, Entomologist, xxxi. 136); common round Cheshunt (Boyd) TRYPANIDJE Trypanus coccus, L. (ligniperda, F.). Sand- ridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant, Latchmore) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Htatk,' School List ; East Barnet (Gillum); Bedmond (F.W.Silvester) ; Watford (J. H. James, Heaton) ; Colney Heath (Pilbrow) ; Tring (Elli- man) ; Bishop Stortford (Taylor, Mel- lows) ; Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Royston (A. H. Kingston) A most extraordinary capture of the larvae of this destructive insect was made in 1892 in Station Road, Hitchin, and recorded by the late Mr. Frank Latchmore. Over 200 were taken wandering about a small walled garden in search of a place for pupation. Two or three young aspen trees in the garden were liter- ally riddled with goat holes. A considerable number of these larvae were sent to me, and I reared a series of perfect insects from them. This insect is too common through- out the county TINEINA /EGERIAD.S ria apiformis, Cl. Watford (Heaton) ; ./EGERIADJE (continued) Colney Heath (Pilbrow) ; Hitchin (Latchmore, Gatward) In 1893 the last-named observers reported this moth as being common at Hitchin. They obtained the pupae from aspen trees in the spring ./Egeria crabroniformis, Lew. (bembeci- formis, Hb.). Sandridge (Griffith); one near Cheshunt station (Boyd) [Trochilium andreniformis, Lasp. Thisspecies which was taken in the garden of Drayton Lodge, Tring, by Mr. S. W. Jenney, jun., must, I regret to say, be removed from the Hertfordshire list, for Mr. Jenney informs me that the spot is in Buckinghamshire] tipuliforme, Cl. St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Hemel Hempstead (E. PifFard) ; Sand- ridge (Griffith) : Hitchin (Durrant) ; Watford (Heaton) ; Haileybury (Stockley) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Stevenage (Mat- thews) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) ; Bishop Stortford (Mellows) ; Royston (A. H. Kingston) This is a fairly abundant species, occurring in gardens among currant bushes asiliforme, Rott. (cynipiformis, Esp.). Sandridge (Cutts) ; Haileybury (School List); Bayford (Boyd) In 1892 Mr. Cutts reported the capture of this insect by a friend of his at Sandridge. The Haileybury specimen was taken in the Pavilion field myopiforme, Bkh. Hertford (Stephens) ; Haileybury (Stockley) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Mr. Stockley informs me that he took three specimens of T. myopi- forme one morning in 1898, but the insect has not been heard of again. Mr. Boyd describes the species as being common at Cheshunt formiciforme, Esp. Norton (Durrant) ; Cheshunt Marsh (Boyd) In a note attached to Mr. Dur- rant's list Mr. A. F. Griffith states that gentleman had informed him that two specimens of this insect had been taken at Norton by Mr. Chris- tian ichneumoniforme, F. A specimen of this insect was taken by Mr. Elliman in June, 1893, on the Canal bank near Drayton Beauchamp. As the Wendover canal crosses the county 160