List of the Insect Fauna of the County . 



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in which the gall-gnat larva lives. It emerges from the 

 pseudo-gall and pupates in the earth. Diplosis botularia, 

 Winnertz. 



ScROPHULARINEiE. 



Veronica Becgabunga, L. Flower-head. The flower-head 

 or seed capsule is transformed into an oval gall of about \ in. 

 long by ^ in. broad. The yellowish, hairy larva pupates 

 within the gall. Gymnetron Becgabunga, Linne. 



Veronica Cham.edrys, L. Leaf. 

 The terminal bud, when galled, be- 

 comes arrested in development, and 

 is a thickly-haired, whitish-green 

 tuft. The orange-yellow larvse pu- 

 pate amongst the closely imbricated 

 woolly leaves, often several in a 

 pseudo-gall. Cecidomyia Veronica, ^Ai"' 

 Vallot. (Fig. 13). 



Labiate. 



Nepeta Glechoma, Benth. [Gle- 

 choma hederacea, Eng. Bot.). Leaf. 

 Small, hairy, tubular galls, occur- 

 ring in some numbers on the upper 

 sides of the leaves. When mature 

 the galls readily fall from the leaf, 

 leaving several round holes in it. 

 The single pale yellow larva pupates 

 within the fallen gall. Cecidomyia 

 Bursaria, Bremi. (Fig. 14). 



Nepeta Glechoma, Benth. Leaf, 

 leaf-stalk, stem. Bound, oval, or 

 irregularly shaped, hairy, fleshy, 

 green galls, sessile on the leaf- 

 stalk or stem, occupying the place 

 of a leaf, but often with the leaf- 

 edge produced from the gall. The 



Fig. 13. 

 Cecidomyia Veronicce. 



Fig. 14. 

 Cec idomy ia Bwsaria . 



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