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fa pest), Gnophr'ia rubricolUs (abundant), Dasychira pudihunda (abundant), 

 Stauropus fagi («ot several), Notodonta trepida (3), N. chaonia (6), N. tri- 

 macula (several), Moiiia orion (plentiful in a favourite locality), Acronycta 

 aJn'i (2, full fed), Pcowlis pinlperda (common in some places), Eurymene 

 rfotoZ)ra>'ia (abundant), Atiiphidasijs strataria (several), A. hetularia (common), 

 Zonoso)iia pwictaria (several) Cldarla siderata (abundant), and many others 

 unknown tome. — J. M, Adyk ; Jan. 17, 1893. 



On the Middlesex North Border, 1892. — The following notes 

 represent the observations and captures made by me and Mr. C. R. Peers, 

 of Harrow-Weald llectory, during the past year, and among them will be 

 found perhaps some additional insects to those already recorded by Mr. 

 Cockerell in his Middlesex fauna. My own notes were commenced early 

 in July, when I returned to the neighbourhood to find that the rare and 

 beautiful Plusia moneta had, as already recorded (Entom. xxv. 193), fallen 

 to the net of Mr. Peers. They close with the record of C. celerio, taken in 

 a garden almost immediately adjoining our village churchyard. The 

 twelfth milestone from London is situated about equidistant between the 

 two houses. Harrow- Weald Rectory is built on the gravel ; Oxhey Grove 

 on the stiffest London clay. The country is generally well wooded, and 

 there are two fairly large stretches of common land within the radius of our 

 operations. The great majority of the following captures have been made 

 at light, as we have little opportunity for collecting during the day. 

 P. palpina turns up again after ten years' absence, and G. papilionaria (3 

 specimens) I have not before met with here. Of the Rhopalocera, H. thaumas 

 is new to me in the district, and C. edusa has not paid us a visit since 1877 

 (cf. Entom. xxv. 209, 282) ; of A. euplivosyne I have, heretofore only, caught 

 a single specimen (Harrow-AVeald Common, 1888), but I found it in abun- 

 dance on June 3rd in Pinner Wood. V. atahmta was about early (July 

 23rd); and a week later (July 29th) I met with T. quercits in Oxhey Wood 

 (2 specimens), a butterfly that I have not observed on the Middlesex border 

 since 1876. The same day I saw a single V. polycJiloros. L. argiolus, how- 

 ever, seems to have disappeared, though Mr. Peers took it in 1887. On the 

 whole, insects have been remarkably plentiful. Subjoined is a detailed list, 

 comprising in all — Heterocera only— 148 species. Mr. Peers' observations 

 commence May 31st (except A. badiata and H. defoliaria, March) and ter- 

 minate October 26th. Sphinges (3). — ChcBrocampa celerio, Ino statices, 

 L. filipendulge. Bomhyces (18). — Lithosia complanula, Euchelia jacobseae 

 (larvae), Arctia caia, A. lubricipeda, Porthesia chrysorrhosa, P. similis, 

 Leucoma salicis (larva), Borabyx neustria, Odonestis potatoria, Drepana 

 lacertinaria, D. falcataria, D. binaria, Cilix glaucata, Pterostoma palpina, 

 Lophopteryx camelina, Asphalia diluta, Thyatira batis, T. derasa. 

 NoctU(B[^9i]. — Acronycta pisi, A. tridens, Diloba caeruleocephala, Leucania 

 conigera, L. lithargyria, L. comma, L. impura, L. pallens, Tapinostola 

 fulva, Hydroecia nictitans, H. micacea, Xylophasia rurea, X. lithoxylea, 

 X. monoglypha, X. hepatica, Dipterygia scabriuscula, Neuronia popularis, 

 Cerigo matura, Mamestra brassicse, M. persicariae, Apamea basilinea, 

 A. didyma, Miana strigilis, M. fasciuncula, M. bicoloria, M. literosa, 

 Grammesia trilinea, Caradrina morpheus, Agrotis saucia, A. segetum, 

 A. corticea, Noctua augur, N. plecta, N. triangulum, N. festiva, N. rubi, 

 N. umbrosa, N. baia, N. xanthographa, Triphaena ianthina, T. pronuba, 

 Amphipyra pyramidea, A. tragopogonis, Mania typica, M. maura, Ttenio- 

 campa gothica, Pachnobia leucographa, Scopelosoma satellitia, Tethea 



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