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A large Lepidopterous larva lias occasionally been 

 found feeding in the interior of these galls, since Walker's 

 notes; but, as far as I know, the species to which it belongs 

 has not been determined at present. (See Entom. viii. 167, 

 and other notes.) In addition to the five species mentioned 

 by Walker, three others have been recorded from this gall. 



Thecla Qiiercus. — A larva of this butterfly was found 

 feeding on oak-apples by Mr. Barrett (Ent. Mo. Mag. iv. 153.) 



Hedya (Spilonota) ocellana, Fab. — A common species, 

 flying in June and .July ; the larva feeds on various trees and 

 shrubs. Ratzeburg recei\ed seven species of Ichneumonidae 

 as parasitic on it; one of these — Microdus rufipes — is men- 

 tioned in these notes. 



Semasia [Ephippiphora) (jallicolana, Zell., = obsciinina, 

 Wilk. non Steph.— On the SSrd June, 1869, Mr. C. W. Dale 

 bred a specimen of this rare species from an oak-apple, 

 collected in the spring, near Sherborne, Dorsetshire, which 

 he first recorded under the name Sligmonota iuternana, Gn.j 

 — quite a different species. However, his mistake was recti- 

 fied by the Editors of Ent. Mo. Mag., who gave us the 

 following piece of information at the end of their note: — 



" Dr. Rossler states that the larvae of S. gallicolana live 

 through the winter in the old and dried galls of Cynips 

 quercus-terminalis, which are firmly fixed on the twigs of 

 young oaks, and that severe winters seem to be fatal to 

 them ; after a mild winter nearly every gall collected pro- 

 duced one or several of the moth." (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. 186.) 



As pointed out by Mr. Barrett, in his " Notes on Tortrices," 

 in the same magazine, this species has been confounded with 

 Halonota (Phlhoroblastis) costipunctana, Haiv. Kaltenbach 

 ('Die Pflanzen-feinde, p. 659) says: — "P. costipunctana, 

 Haiv. •— gallicolana, Z. The larva lives, according to Von 

 Heyden, on oak, in the galls of Cynips terminalis, L., and is 

 not uncommon at Frankfort: in these it lives in an out- 

 stretched cavity, leaves the gall in October, and the imago 

 appears in May of the following year (Stelt. Entom. Zeit. 

 xxi. p. 118). I received this species from Dr. Ott Hofman, 

 who likewise had bred them in numbers from these oak- 

 galls." 



From these observations it appears that this moth is 

 undoubtedly an oak-apple inquilinc ; and from Mr. Barrett's 



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