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AUSTRALIAN GALL-MAKING LEPiDOPTEROUS LARV^. 

 by e. metrics:. 



In relation to the subject of Mr. McLachlan's paper in the De- 

 cember number of this Magazine, I may add, that I have found at 

 least three Lepidopterous gall-producing larvae in Australia, as 

 follows : 



1. Larvae producing a terminal gall on the extremity of the shoots 

 of an Eucalyptus, near Sydney ; this gall is an inch or more in length, 

 and has all the appearance of an inflated but unexpanded tuft of 

 leaves, but is a true gall ; these larvae are solitary ; they produced a 

 species of Tortricidce, at present undescribed. 



2. Larvae producing a swollen gall in the stem of young shoots of 

 an Eucalyptus, near Sydney ; these I have not yet bred. 



3. Larvae producing a large shapeless roundish gall on a phyllo- 

 dineous Acacia, near Brisbane ; this gall is sometimes as large as two 

 fists, and contains numerous larvae, becoming riddled with galleries ; 

 it may be taken to represent a cluster of leaves ; these larvae produced 

 one of the PyraUdina, described by Walker as Pyralis wgusalis, though 

 it appears to belong rather to tbe JBotyda. It is distressing that 

 Walker should not have been able to produce a less abnormally com- 

 pounded specific name. 



Bamsbury, Hungerford : 



December 7th, 1880. 



An addition to the British Trichoptera. — At the last Meeting of the Glasgow 

 Natural History Society, I exhibited specimens of MoJanna palpata, McLach., a 

 species of caddis-fly new to Britain. It has hitherto been known only from 

 Finland and Siberia, and a specimen from St. Petersburg was found among Kolenati's 

 types of M. angustata in the Vienna Museum. 



The remarkable form of the third joint of the maxillary palpi in both sexes, at 

 once distinguishes it from its congeners. 



The above species was taken during my stay last summer at Cannich, Strath- 

 glass, Inverness-shire, and occurred commonly all through August ; it was the 

 common caddis-fly at all parts of the Strath visited by me. 



I found it along the margins of lochs by brushing the overhanging heather, &c, 

 and cannot remember having seen it flying without having been disturbed. 



M. angustata, Curtis, is the only other British species of the genus. — Jamks 

 J. King, 207, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow : December, 1880. 



Abundance of Glothilla picea, Motsch. — Mr. E. A. Butler of Hastings, has just 

 sent me a supply of this curious little black species of Psocidai. He says they Lave 

 been familiar to him for years, as occurring in neglected boxes. Now he finds them 

 chiefly in an old collection of plants that had fallen into decay, and in some marine 

 specimens that had not been properly cleaned. The insects are of varying sizes, and 



