b THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



also exceedingly numerous, a couple of hundred being beaten. 

 Lophopteryx camelina larvae were likewise in full force. On 

 Sept. 16tli, I entered a beech-wood on the borders of Bucks, and 

 in half an hour had beaten 70 larv£e of this species, mostly full- 

 fed. How many more I might have taken I cannot say, for the 

 sound of the beating-stick brought up our entomological enemies 

 — the gamekeepers — who requested me to withdraw. Other 

 larvae taken have been Selenia illustraria, Odontopera hidentata, 

 Drepana imguicula, Zonosoma linearia, all in fair numbers. But 

 my chief capture was a larva of Stauropus fagi, from a beech in 

 Crowle Wood. I sleeved it on an apple-tree in my garden, and 

 have now the satisfaction to find that it has changed to a pupa 

 between united leaves. 



Imagines of Eugonia quercinaria (angularia) frequently fell to 

 the beating-stick whilst larva-collecting, and likewise a few fine 

 X. aurago. Several specimens of this latter species were too 

 nimble, and easily escaped before they could be safely boxed. I 

 "sugared" for some time in the beech-woods in the hope of 

 obtaining a fine series, but was greatly disappointed; in fact, 

 sugar has been a dead failure here almost the whole of the 

 season. At ivy-bloom the commoner autumn species were fairly 

 represented, but I was unable to bag a single rarity. 



Chinnor, Oxon, Nov. 4, 1890. 



A PEELIMINARY LIST OF THE INSECT-FAUNA OF 

 MIDDLESEX. 



Compiled by T. D. A. Cockerell. 



(Continued from vol. xxiii. p. 369). 



Hymenopteea. 

 Apid(s. 



Panurgus ursiniis, Gmel., = hanhsianus, Kby., Hampstead 

 Heath (Smith). 



Nomada succincta, Panz., Isleworth (Fenn). N. lineola, 

 Panz., Hampstead (Smith). N. alternata, Kirb., Isleworth (Fenn 

 and CklL). N. lathburiana, Kirb., Hampstead (Smith). N. la- 

 teralis, Sm., Highgate (Smith). N. ruficornis var. signata, Jur., 

 Hampstead (Smith). N. borealis, Zett., Hampstead (Smith). 

 N . ochrostoma, Kirb., Hampstead (Smith). N.ferruginata, Kirb., 

 Hampstead (Smith). N.fabriciana, L., Hampstead (Smith). 



Melecta luctiiosa, Scop., Hampstead (Smith). M. armata, 

 Panz., Isleworth (Fenn). 



Coelioxys quadridentata, L., Isleworth (Fenn). C. elongata, 

 Lep., = simplex, Nyl., Isleworth (Fenn). 



Megachile maritima, Kirb., Hampstead, once (Smith). M. 



