BRITISH GALL-INSECTS. V 



was in a bleached and withered state when I received it from 

 Mr. Eothney. 



VIII. Rhodites. 



23. RoscB, L. (Marshall, E. M. Mag-, iv. p. 173). 



The maker of the common bedeguar. T have described 

 curious specimens of the latter in the " Zoologist," 1868, 

 p. 1206, and 1870, p. 2303. 



24. EglantericB, H. 



Bred from smooth globular, monothalamous green galls, 

 tinged with red, on the underside of the leaves of Rosa 

 canina. 



25. Rosarum, Gir. 



Bred from a monothalamous green gall with long isolated 

 hard spikes, which was found at Bromley, in Kent, on a 

 white cluster-rose on the 26th June, 1870. I have since 

 found the same gall on R. canina in the neighbourhood of 

 Elmers End. Dr. Grav has lono; ao;o described this q-all 

 from British specimens found near West Wickham, also on 

 Rosa canina. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 2, 1858, vol. iv., 

 Proc. p. 94. 



26. sjyinosissimcE (Gir. Taschenberg, nee Inclibald). 



Bred from polythalamous, fiery red galls of irregular size 

 and shape on Rosa spinosissima. The galls are berry-, eg^- 

 or cushion-shaped, and frequently beset or bordered with 

 short spines. I have seen the galls and their makers from 

 Cumberland (Armistead) and Southsea (Moncreaff). 



IX. Trigoxaspis. 



27. megaptera, Pz. H. (Marshall, E. M. Mag. iv. p. 272). 

 I have never met with this insect or its jiall. 



