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A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE INSECT-FAUNA OF 
MIDDLESEX. 
Compruep sy T. D. A. Cocxerett, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
(Continued from vol. xxiv., p. 283.) 
Tue following fresh lists have been received :— 
(29.) Alfred Sich. A MS. list of the Geometre of Chiswick, 
Middlesex, numbering 54 species. 
(80.) H. Rowland-Brown. <A MS. list of 51 species of 
Geometre taken in Middlesex. 
(81.) Dr. Percy Rendall. A MS. list of Lepidoptera taken 
within two miles of the small village of Whitton, close to 
Hounslow. The following are new to the Middlesex list :— 
Lithosia sororcula, Hufn. (as aureola). 
Notodonta trilophus, Fb. 
Acronycta alni, L. This was recorded doubtfully on p. 120, 
vol. xxiv. 
Mamestra furva, Hb. 
Apamea gemina, Hb. Previously omitted by accident, as it 
has also been taken at South Hampstead (Watts) and Bishop’s 
Wood (Vaughan). 
Miana literosa, Haw. Already recorded, but only doubtfully 
(Entom. xxiv. 280). 
Mr. A. Bacot writes that the supposed Plusia festuce recorded 
from Clapton was only P. chrysitis. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Geometride* subf. Uropterygine. 
Uropteryx sambucaria, L., generally distributed (Godwin) ; 
Mill Hill (South); Isleworth (Fenn); Bedford Park (Fenn) ; 
[St. John’s Wood, some years common (Souwth)] ; Maldon 
Crescent (Knaggs); Kentish Town (Vaughan); Harefield, fairly 
common (Wall); Chiswick, common, larva on ivy and white 
jasmine (Sich); South Hampstead, abundant (Watts); Tufnell 
Park, Highgate (Shepherd); Ealing (Adye); Clapton (Bacot) ; 
Oxhey Lane, very common (Rowland-Brown) ; Dalston (Prout). 
Subf. Hnnomine. 
Epione apiciaria, Schiff., Bishop’s Wood, Hampstead, Clutter- 
house Lane (bred from sallow), Kingsbury, Old Oak Common 
(Godwin); Mill Hill, local, found only in a hedgerow near 
Goldbeaters (South) ; Whitton (Rendall); Harefield, fairly com- 
mon (Wall) ; Hammersmith (Mera). 
Rumia luteolata, L., generally distributed (Godwin); Mill 
* Geometre of our lists; but here regarded as a single family, with 
several subfamilies. 
