A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE INSECT-FAUNA OF MIDDLESEX. 131 
Acidalia dimidiata, Hufn., Bishop’s Wood (Godwin); Mill 
Hill, common in a hedgerow (South); Dartmouth Park (Vaughan) ; 
Harefield, rather common (Wall); Chiswick, common, larva 
once (Sich); Hampstead, common (Watts). A. bisetata, Hufn., 
Bishop’s Wood (Godwin) ; Mill Hill (South) ; Whitton (Rendall) ; 
Chiswick, common on the wing at dusk (Sich); Hampstead, 
common (Watts). A. rusticata, Fb., Harefield, one taken in 1890 
(Wall). A. humiliata, Hufn. (= dilutaria=interjectaria), Mill Hill 
(South) ; Chiswick, common on the wing at dusk (Sich) ; Finchley 
(Shepherd). A. virgularia, Hb. (= incanaria), Mill Hill, at rest 
on summer-house in the garden (South) ; Highgate ( Vaughan) ; : 
Whitton (Rendall); Chiswick, common (Sich); Hampstead, 
common (Watts) ; Dalston (Prout) ; (St. John’s Wood, Kingsbury 
(South)|. A. marginepunctata, Goze. (= promutata), Chiswick, 
once at rest (Sich). A. immutata, L., said to have been taken at 
Enfield * (see Pract. Nat., 1883, p. 1381). A. wnitaria, Hb., 
Bishop’s Wood (Shepherd); Mill Hill, common about a privet 
hedge, bred from larve found on privet (South); Whitton 
(Rendall). A. remutaria, Hb. (= remutata, Newm.), Bishop’s 
Wood, common (Godwin); Mill Hill (South); Pinner Woods 
(Watts). A. aversata, L.+ {banded form], London (Rendall, 
Entom., 1887, p. 200). A. aversata, Bishop’s Wood (Godwin) ; 
Mill Hill (South); Bedford Park (Ckll.); Dartmouth Park 
(Vaughan); Whitton (Rendall); Harefield, rather common 
(Wall) ; Chiswick, common, larva once on Nepeta glechoma (Sich) ; 
Hampstead, common (Watts) ; Harrow- Weald (Rowland-Brown) ; 
Tottenham (Prout). A. emarginata, L., Mill Hill, in various 
hedgerows (South); Whitton (Rendall); Harefield, a few in 
1887 (Wall). A. herbariata, Fb., Cannon Street, London (Meek, 
Entom., 1879, p. 226). 
Timandra amataria, L., common (Godwin); Mill Hill, com- 
mon in ditches (South); Highgate (Vaughan) ; Whitton 
(Rendall) ; Harefield, taken freely some seasons (Wall) ; 
* In September, which, if correct, would indicate a second brood. 
Newman gives only June.—T. D. A. C. 
f The true A. aversata, popularly known as the “ ribbon-wave,” has the 
space between the two central transverse lines filled up with darker, and is 
the typical form. Stephens describes and Wood figures it under this name, 
but Guenée refers the banded form to lividata, “Linn. .» representing his 
A. aversata var. A; and he uses aversata, Linn., for the commoner form 
without central fascia. Stainton mentions both forms under the name of 
aversata. Staudinger appears to have been doubtful whether the common 
form of aversata was properly referable to remutata, Linn., Syst. Nat. 
x. 528, and so gave to this form the name of spoliata (Hore, Soc. Ent. 
Ross., 1870, p. 150). Newman, in his ‘ British Moths,’ p. 82, figures the 
plain form as var. remutata and the banded form as var. aversata. The 
typical form of aversata is, perhaps, less common than the spoliata form in 
many of the localities cited above; but, although the fact has not been 
indicated, it probably occurs in all of them; certainly at Bishop’s Wood, 
Mill Hill, Harefield, Harrow, Kingsbury, Hampstead, and Tottenham.—Ep, 
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