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species unknown to him and therefore doubtful, whilst seventy 

 are limited to the first group, and twenty-one to the second : 

 from this it will appear that the above communication is 

 especially interesting, as being the first authentic record of a 

 Cerris gall occurring in Britain. Other Continental species 

 will doubtless follow the introduction of their special pabulum, 

 which is now so widely distributed in these islands, and when 

 once established their march may be as rapid as has been 

 that of Kollari, a most noteworthy occurrence, considering 

 the lethargic habits of the insect, which, though so common, 

 has been noticed on the wing but on one or two occasions; 

 although 1 have taken and bred some hundreds of specimens, 

 desirous of the male, I don't think I ever saw one fly. 1 hope 

 further research will complete the history of this species, 

 which, from the nature of the gall, I opine is not included by 

 Mayr, and will therefore prove new. — E. A. F.] 



Inhabitants of Kollari Gall. — Last winter I collected 

 a double gall of this species, and then, in order to examine 

 the enclosed inhabitant of the larva-cell, broke one side of the 

 gall open, but finding the parenchyma tenanted, I isolated it, 

 and in April, May, and June last there emerged twenty-three 

 Synergus Reinharcli, Mayr, six CalUmome regius, Nees, and 

 four Enrytoma sqiiamea ? Wlk. — all these from three-fourths 

 of a double gall. — Edwakd A. Fitch ; Maldon. 



Phylloxerous Ravages in the Cognac district. — 

 Entomological subjects are thrusting themselves upon us: 

 although the potato-beetle scare is subsiding, we have another, 

 possibly of greater import, nearer home. Brandy drinkers, 

 beware ! The price of your favoured liquor has advanced 

 (wholesale) some 50 per cent, within the last six months, and 

 is still rising. This is all due to the scarcity caused by an 

 almost microscopic insect, the now well-known Plnjlloxera 

 vastairix. Its ravages are but too patent, and by no means 

 have they been abated, in spite of the immense amount of 

 entomological research, both European and transatlantic, 

 which has been expended on the subject. A thoroughly 

 practicable remedy would be cheap at the government prize 

 of £12,000. When will such be forthcoming.'' However, the 

 object of this note is not to refer to the entomological, but to 

 the commercial, aspect of the question; for when large 

 vinicultural districts, like many of the departments in the 

 South and West of France, come to produce from 75 to 90 



