94 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



this species extends to Britain, and, secondly, as positively 

 connecting the gall with the gall-maker; probably, however, 

 the name of A. Corticis, which has the claim of" priority, will 

 supersede that of A. Sieboldii. The species appear to be 

 identical. — Edward Newman.'] 



Rose-galls. — I have by me an American rose-gall, of which 

 the English rose-gall, about to be mentioned, is a little repre- 

 sentative. The latter is inhabited by Rhodites Rosarum of 

 Giraud, and, like the former, which nourishes Rhodites bicolor 

 of Harris, is distinguished by its elegance, and it has gene- 

 rally the shape of a little spine-set ball, and its spines are red 

 like the spines of the briar, and sometimes it has not a pea- 

 shape, but is merely a swelling of the basal part of the spine. 

 In this state it is with other spines, but in its round form it 

 occurs on the surface or on the edge of a leaf, and is only 

 indicative of the spines, which, like other spines and thorns, 

 are said to be merely rolled-up leaves. With this gall there 

 is another little one without spines ; it is made by Rhodites 

 Eglanteriae of Hartig, and much resembles the Rosa spino- 

 sissima gall, in which Rhodites spinosissimae of Giraud is 

 reared ; but more may be said on this matter in a future 

 note on rose-galls. — Francis Walker. 



Correction of an Error. — I am sorry I have to con- 

 tradict my notice of the capture of Plusia Interrogationis 

 (Entom. vii. 23). It proved to be P. Pulchrina, a species I 

 had never seen. Mr. N. F. Dobree, upon seeing it, instantly 

 discovered my mistake; and I should not like knowingly to 

 add one to the long lists of "rarities," whose history is, to 

 say the least of it, doubtful. — Geo. B,. Dawson; Pounds- 

 worth, Driffield, March 20, 1874. 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 

 of London, January 5 to February 3, 1874. 



Photographs of Insects taken ivith Camera Ohscura. — 

 Mr. Mendola exhibited some photographs of minute insects 

 taken with the camera obscura and microscope. 



A Bomhyx with Aquatic Larva. — Mr. M'Lachlan called 

 attention to a paper in the last part of the ' Annales de la 

 Sociele Entomologique de France,' by M. Bar and Dr. 

 Laboulbene, on a species of a Bombycidae closely related to 

 the tiger-moths described and figured by M. Bar as Palustra 



