A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE INSEGT-FAUNA OF MIDDLESEX. 95 



(Pratt) ; Bloomsbury (Brit. Mus.). A. moesta, Grav., Blooms- 

 bury {Brit. Mils.). A. niticla, Grav., South Kensington (Pratt) ; 

 Bloomsbury (Brit Mus.). 



Myrmedonia humeralis, Grav., Bloomsbury (Brit. Mus.). 



Astilbus canaliculatus, Fab., Bloomsbury [Brit Mus.). 



Ilyobates nigricoUis, Payk., Notting Hill, olim (Fowler). 



Calodera nigrita, Mann., Hampstead (Fowler). C. rubens, Er., 

 Cowley, near Uxbridge (Fowler). C. umbrosa, Er., Bloomsbury 

 (Brit. Mus.). 



Alianta incana, Er., Notting Hill, olim (Foivler). 



Chllopora longitarsis, Er., Bloomsbury (Brit. Mus.). 



Tachyusa concolor, Er., Bloomsbury [Brit. Mus.). 



Oxypoda spectabilis, Mark., Highgate (Foivler). O. vittata, 

 Mark., South Kensington (Pratt). 0. lentula, Er., Notting Hill 

 (Fowler). 0. pectita, Sharp, Hammersmith (Fowler). O. 

 umbrata, Gyll. = brevicornis, Steph., Bloomsbury (Brit. Mus.). 

 0. mutata, Sharp, Golney Hatch (Fowler). 0. alternans, Grav., 

 Bloomsbury (Brit. Mus.). O. recondita, Kr., Highgate (Fowler). 

 0. hoemorrhoa, Sahl., South Kensington (Pratt) ; Bloomsbury 

 (Brit. Mus.). 0. (amoena var. ?) waterhousei, Eye, Hampstead 

 (Waterliouse). 0. annularis, Sahl., Hampstead and Highgate 

 (Fowler). 0. tarda, Sharp, South Kensington (Pratt). 



Homalota : As this genus is so inconveniently large, I divide 

 our species provisionally into sections or groups as seems con- 

 venient, mainly after Canon Fowler's arrangement.* 



a. Langiddce. 

 Homalota languida, Er., Hammersmith Marshes (Fowler). 



d. Fallaces. 

 H.fallax, Kr., Notting Hill (Fowler). 



e. ElongatidcB. 

 H. luridipennis, M.a,nn., Bloomsbury (Brit. Mus.). H. hygro- 

 topora, Kr., Bloomsbury (Brit. Mus.). H. elongatida, Grav., 

 Bloomsbury (Brit. Mus.). 



f. Glossolcp. 



H. gregaria, Er., Bloomsbury (Bi-it. Mus.). 



g. Pagance. 



H. vestita, Grav., South Kensington (Pratt). H. sylvicola, 

 Fuss., Highgate (Fowler). H. vicina, Steph., Bloomsbury (Brit. 

 Mus.). H. pagana, Er., Bloomsbury [Bnt. Mas.). 



* It is rather an innovation to give plural names to the sections, and Canon 

 Fowler, to whom I sent a copy of the list of species and section-names, writes, ■ ' 

 must confess that I do not like tlie plan at first sight." But the same method has 

 been long in use in Botany, A'c, and I believe is a very advantageous one. 



