INSECTS STERRHID.S (continued) A local species ; often common where it occurs Eois dimidiata, Hufn. (scutulata, Bkh.). St. Albans and Bamville Wood Farm, Harpenden Common (A. E. G.); Sand- ridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Generally described as common. Mr. Elliman finds it to be common some years ; at Haileybury it is not common trigeminata, Hw. Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' rare, School List ; East Barnet (Gillum) bisetata, Hufn. St. Albans (A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Dur- rant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Bushey Heath (Barraud) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Mr. Elliman finds E. bisetata to be local ; Mr. Barraud has only taken a few specimens ; Mr. Boyd describes it as common round Ches- hunt Leptomeris remutaria, Hb. St. Albans, Bricket Wood, Symonds Hyde and Bam- ville Wood Farm, Harpenden Common (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Watford (Spencer) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Brox- bourne Woods (Boyd) A common species ornata, Sc. Canal bank, Tring station, 1899 and 1900 (Goodson) imitaria, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Tring (Elliman) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Fairly common emutaria, Hb. St. Albans and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) rubiginata, Hufn. (rubricata, F.). Wat- ford, 1890 (Cottam) orbicularia, Hb. Bricket Wood (Cottam) pendularia, Cl. Sandridge (Griffith) porata, F. Bricket Wood (Spencer, A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith); Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' School List punctaria, L. St. Albans and Bricket Wood (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Grif- fith) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Wat- ford (Cutts) trilinearia, Bkh. (linearia, Hb.). St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; East Barnet STERRHID^E (continued) (Gillum) ; Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Tring (Elliman) Mr. Elliman finds this to be very abundant in most of the beech woods in his district. It is not generally plentiful Leptomeris annulata, Schulze (omicronaria, Hb.). Sandridge (Griffith); Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Heath,' School List ; Tring (Goodson) Calothysanis amata, L. (amataria, L.). St. Albans (A. E. G.) ; Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Hertford (Stephens) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) ; Watford (Spencer, Heaton) ; Bricket Wood (Barraud) , Oxhey (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Le Quesne) ; Stanford (Taylor) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Common GEOMETRID^ Nemoria strigata, Mull, (thymiaria, Gn.). St. Albans (A. E. G.); Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer) ; East Barnet (Gillum) ; Bushey (Cutts) , Watford (Spencer, Wigg) ; Oxhey Wood (H. Rowland-Brown) ; Tring (Foulkes, Goodson) ; Cheshunt (Boyd) Generally common, except at Tring, where Mr. Elliman says that it is apparently not common, though Mr. J. L. Foulkes has taken and also bred the species Euchlorispustulata, Hufn. (bajularia,Schiff.). Haileybury (Bowyer) ; Watford (Spencer) ; College Road, Cheshunt (Boyd) Rare. In the Haileybury School List it is stated to occur on the Heath, but is not common. Mr. Stockley writes that it is now to be found more freely, about a score of specimens being taken in 1900. Mr. Boyd and Mr. Spencer have each taken one specimen in their localities vernaria, Hb. Sandridge (Griffith) ; Hitchin (Durrant) ; Haileybury (Bowyer), ' Roman road,' School List ; Miswell (Elliman) ; Tring (Goodson) Mr. Elliman says that the larvae may be beaten from many of the old clematis hedges about Drayton Beau- champ and Miswell. It is better to take them in the spring and save the risk and trouble of keeping them through the winter 137
