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watch, ladybird, &c. The second drawer contains the 

 OrtJtoptera, with the cockroach, mole-cricket, &c. ; the 

 Neuropiera, Trichoptera, and Heteropiera. The Lepidoptera 

 are well represented in two drawers : four wide columns 

 suffice for the butterflies, which are here arranged according 

 to the late Mr. Newman's classification ; the hawk-moths are 

 well represented in one column ; the Geometers, two columns ; 

 and so on. To this collection I have added, whenever 

 procurable, the preserved eggs, larvge and pupte of the 

 species represented ; thus tracing, as far as possible, the 

 life-history of each. The fifth drawer contains the Ho- 

 moplera, Hymenoptera, and Dipiera. 



Let me suggest to others the pleasure and convenience 

 such a collection affords to its owner, in addition to the 

 other reasons 1 have given for its formation. 

 Hnyton Park, Liverpool. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, Sec. 



TuEKEY Oak-galls. — During the last summer, having 

 permission kindly given me to search for galls on the trees in 

 the Koyal Gardens at Kew, I had opportunity for frequent 

 examination of the Turkey oaks {Quercus cerris), which I 

 believe have hitherto been considered as exempt from gall- 

 growths in England, and was fortunate enough to find, 

 though only by careful and repeated search, a very few 

 specimens of a minute gall on the twigs. The first that I 

 noticed were during April, on the lower twigs of a large tree 

 labelled " Q. cerris, var. Lucomheana^'' but were apparently 

 growths of the previous season, with the colour of the downy 

 outside so much blackened by age that, excepting size and 

 shape, the thin cell wall, and the decided downiness of the 

 exterior, it was almost impossible to make out any deter- 

 minate characteristic. Somewhat later in the year I found 

 two more (like the others growing close together, and almost 

 precisely similar to them in shape and size), of which the 

 accompanying figure is a much-magnified representation, in 

 the condition in which they were first observed. These were 

 on a large tree of considerable age, labelled " Q. cerris,''^ and 

 placed on a twig at the base of a still smaller one, and (like 

 the other.s) amongst a few linear stipules. These galls were 

 somewhat more than the sixteenth of an inch in lensth, and 



