103 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



do not remember to have seen represented in former collections 

 from the Shetlands. 



SciAPHiLA COLQUHOUNANA. — This species had not been pre- 

 viously detected in Shetland. Mr. McArthur found larvae not 

 uncommonly in the root-crowns of Plantago maritima and Armeria 

 vulgaris. Two larv£e which he was good enough to send me were 

 received on the 20th June, but one of these had left its mine and 

 got crushed ; the other, of which I append a description taken 

 down on the day it came to hand, died in the act of pupating. 



Larva of S. colquhounana. — Length three-quarters of an inch. 

 Fuliginous grey-brown. Head dark red-brown ; mandibles and 

 plate on second segment black. The skin is puckered on the 

 sides and transversely folded on the back ; there are subdorsal 

 and spiracular series of black warts, each wart emitting a short 

 bristle ; the thirteenth segment has a black wrinkled plate. 



A PRELIMINAEY LIST OF THE INSECT-FAUNA OF 



MIDDLESEX. 



Compiled by T. D. A. Cockekell, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(Continued from vol. xxv., p. 207). 



Lepidoptera. 

 PYEALIDID^. 



Aglossa pinguinalis, L., Harefield, common (Wall) ; Whitton 

 (Rendall) ; Dalston (Prout) ; [Mill Hill, common (South)] . 



Pyralis glaucinalis, L., Millfield Lane {Vaughati) ; Harej&eld, 

 frequent ( Wall) ; Bedford Park (J. W. Horsley) ; Whitton 

 {Rendall) ; [Mill Hill, sometimes abundant at sugar (South)]. 

 P. costalis, Fb. (=Jimbrialis), Kentish Town, Highgate (Vaughan) ; 

 Whitton (Rendall) ; Dalston (Prout) ; [Kingsbury, Mill Hill, 

 Northwood (South)]. P.farinalis, L., Kentish Town (Vaughan) ; 

 Harefield, occasional (Wall) ; Whitton (Rendall) ; Highgate 

 (Shepherd) ; Dalston (Prout) ; [Hamp stead, Kingsbury, Kilburn 

 (South)]. P. pictalis, Curt., Limehouse, London (see C. O. 

 Barrett, Ent. Mo. Mag., 1890, p. 138). 



Scoparia mercurella, L., Hampstead (Knaggs fide Vaughan) ; 

 Dalston (Prout) ; [Kingsbury (South)]. S. dubitalis, Hb., Hamp- 

 stead (Knaggs fide Vaughan). S. ambigualis, Tr., Hampstead 

 (Knaggs fide Vaughan). 



Nomophila noctuella, Schiff., Harefield, common (Wall) ; 

 Whitton (Rendall)', [Northwood, 1892 (South)]. 



Pyrausta purpuralis, L., Harefield, frequent (Wall). P. aurata, 

 Scop. (= yunicealis), field at Finchley end of Bishop's Wood 

 (Vaughan). 



Endotricha fiammealis, Schiff., Harefield, taken twice (Wall) ; 

 Whitton (Rendall); [Northwood (South)]. 



