A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE INSECT-FAUNA OF MIDDLESEX. 158 
too abundant (Wall); Hammersmith (Mera); Ealing (Adye) ; 
Clapton Bacon, ; Dalston (Prout); Isleworth, pupa on currant 
(Ckil.) ;* [St. John’s Wood, generally common (South)]. 
A. grossulariata ab. lutea, Ckil., Entom. xxii. p.2. Mr. Prout 
writes that he has a specimen of this, taken in his garden at 
Greenwood Road, Dalston. 
Ligdia adustata, Schiff., Chiswick, once at Tanacetwm vulgare 
(Sich) ; Whitton (Rendall); Harrow-Weald (Rowland-Brown) ; 
Hampstead Heath, 1880, &c. (Watts); Harefield, not common 
(Wall); Hammersmith (Mera); [Kingsbury (Souwth).] 
Lomaspilis marginata, Li., Mill Hill (South); generally com- 
mon, especially at Bishop’s Wood (Godwin) ; Chiswick, larva on 
Lombardy poplar (Sich) ; Harrow-Weald (Rowland-Brown) ; 
Hampstead Heath (Watts); Harefield, rather common (Wall) 
abundant near Ealing (Adye) ; [Northwood (South).] 
Subf. Hyberniine. ' 
Hybernia rupicapraria, Hb., Mill Hill (South); generally 
common (Godwin); Millfield Lane (Vaughan); Chiswick, not 
often taken (Sich) ; Whitton (Rendall) ; Harrow-Weald (Rowland- 
Brown); Hampstead (Watts); Harefield, abundant (Wall) ; 
Bishop’s Wood (Shepherd); [Kingsbury (South)]. H. leuco- 
phearia, Schiff., Mill Hill (South); generally common (Godwin) ; 
Bishop’s Wood (Vaughan) ; Chiswick, occasionally (Sich) ; Whitton 
(Rendall); Harrow-Weald (Rowland-Brown); Hyde Park and 
Hampstead (Watts); Harefield, common (Wall); near Acton 
(Mera). H. aurantiaria, Esp., Bishop’s Wood (Godwin) ; Hare- 
field, common (Wall); Tottenham (Prout). H.:+marginaria, 
Bork. (=progemmaria), Mill Hill (South); generally common 
(Godwin) ; Bishop’s Wood (Vaughan) ; Bedford Park, April, 1891 
(Ckll.); Chiswick, common, larve on birch and plum (Sich) ; 
Whitton (Rendall); Harrow-Weald (Rowland-Brown) ; Hamp- 
stead, common (Watts); Harefield, abundant (Wall); near 
Acton (Mera); Isleworth, a form intermediate between the type 
and the var. fuscata, Mosley (Ckll.). H. defoliaria, Clerck, 
Bishop’s Wood (Godwin); Chiswick, common, larva on elm 
and pear trees (Sich) ; Whitton (Rendall) ; Stanmore (Rowland- 
Brown) ; Harefield, plentiful (Wall) ; Bishop’s Wood and High- 
gate (Shepherd) ; Kaling (Adye); Dalston (Prout). H. defoliaria 
ab. suffusa, Ckll., + Entom. 1886, p. 87. Mr. Sich (Entom. 1888, 
p. 112) refers to a dark reddish form at Chiswick. 
Anisopteryx escularia, Schiff., Mill Hill, female may be found 
on hedges at night (South); generally common, especially 
* From an Isleworth specimen I bred an I[chneumonid, black, about 
14 millim. long, wings dusky hyaline, with a rather large dark stigma. 
} This is apparently hardly to be separated from a variety named 
rs concerning which see A, H. Waters, ‘Nat. World,’ Jan. 1886, 
p 8. 
