34 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



COLEOPTEEA. 



Latridius lat dariiis.— Ju]y. In the synopsis to Walker's 

 first paper nine species of Coleoptera are said to be included ; 

 if we reckon the two species of Latlnidius mentioned, viz. 

 L. lardarius and L. transversus, we have ten. From this, and 

 from the habits of the two species, I think we may infer the 

 insect referred to is the same as that bred in September — the 

 L. transversus, Oliv., and not L. lardarius, De Geer. 



Balanin lis gland ium? — Walker marks this species with a 

 query, and it is very probable that the beetles bred by him 

 were Balaninus villosus, Herhst, and not the acorn-feeding 

 B. glandiura. Marsh, as B. villosus (which is a British 

 species) has been bred from oak-apples by Dr. Reinhard, 

 Dr. Suffrain, and Prof. Kaltenbach. Besides B. villosus, 

 another species of this genus is common in Britain as a gall- 

 inquiline ; the larvae of B. Brassica?, Fab., feeding on the 

 substance of the willow- and sallow-galls of Nematus saliceti 

 (== Vallisnieri) and N. pedunculi. 



Orthoptera. 



In addition to the common earwig, another Orthopterous 

 insect has been bred from the galls of this species, viz.j 

 Meconema varia, Fab. (the tree-grasshopper). 



Hymenopteka (Cynipites). 



Andricus terminalis, Fab. = Teras Querctis-terminalis. — 

 This insect, the true gall-maker, was for some time rather 

 unhappy in the choice of its generic name, as Teras, the 

 name given to the genus erected by Hartig, had priority with 

 the Lepidopiera, Treitschke having taken it for a genus of 

 Tortricidge. Marshall then endeavoured to resuscitate Geof- 

 frey's name, Diplolepis, while Dr. Forster, in his synopsis of 

 genera, proposes Dryoteras; but on Dr. Majr's authority it 

 is now included in Andricus. 



Synergus socialis. — In Dr. Mayr's monograph of the 

 Synergi this is given as a synonym of S. melanopus, Hart., 

 and 8. facialis, Hart., only, recorded as inhabiting A. termi- 

 nalis galls. However, as S. facialis occurs in the summer of 

 the first year, probably all Walker's species so bred belonged 

 to this species, as I breed it very commonly from oak-apples 



