1867.] 147 



antennae, and a smaller and more linear abdomen. Respecting the 

 hitherto unnoticed gall of this species Mr. Parfitt writes as follows : — 



" I see you mention in last Ent. Mag. that N. Jumipennis has not 

 " been bred, or rather that its gall is not known : I am happy to say I 

 " can supply that deficiency, as I bred several last year. The species is 

 •* bred from galls about the size of peas, attached to the under-side of 

 " oat leaves ; they are attached generally to the veinlets, and are hairy, 

 " or covered with longish white filaments. The walls of the gall are 

 " thin, green, with generally a rosy hue. The larva is very small for 

 " the size of the gall, and the comparatively large interior ; so that the 

 " creature rolls freely about when the leaf is shaken. The gall is of a 

 " succulent character, similar to the currant-gall on the male flowers of 

 "the oak, only the walls are not so thick. I gathered the galls 

 " July 15th, and the insects came out soon afterwards." 



These galls are exceedingly common near London, where I have 

 often taken them, but have failed in obtaining from them the imago. 

 They have been reared by Mr. H. Waring Kidd, of Godalming, as well 

 as by Mr. Parfitt ; for I find a bred specimen ((J) in a box belonging 

 to the former gentleman, ticketed " Hairy pea-gall, oak leaf." 



Among Mr. Parfitt's insect is a specimen of 

 Neuroterus Heaumurii, Hart. 



Black ; antennae shorter than in Malpigliii, with the second* joint 

 and the base of the third testaceous. Legs testaceous ; coxae, base of 

 femora, and apex of hind tibiae, blackish. Wings hyaline, nervures 

 dark brown, partly incrassated as in Malpigliii, but not suSused at the 

 edges. All the nervures are distinctly visible, while in Malpigliii they 

 are very pale, almost decolorous, except the base of the radial cell, the 

 outer side of the areolet, and the basal transverse vein (see p. 124). 

 In other respects the species are very similar. $ . 



Long. 1 ; alar. exp. 3| lin. 



JV. Reaumurii, Hart., in Germ. Zeits., 3, p. 339. 

 Stated by Mr. Parfitt to have been " bred from silky button-galls 

 on oak leaves." Hartig {I. c.) says that " these very elegant little red 

 galls, of which 30 — 40 are found upon a single leaf, exactly resemble 

 small shirt buttons covered over with silk." 



h. Scutellum depressed. 

 Genus Teeas, Hartig. 

 Palpi as in Neuroterus. Body glabrous. Antennae $ 1.5-, ? sub- 



* Or, according to the other way of reckoning, adopted by Hartig, the 3rd joint and the base of 

 . the 4th. 



