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case. The following is a record of parasitism in these galls; 

 galls collected 30th July, 1875, inmates emerged as follows: 

 — July, 1875: one Eurytoma squamea ? Walk., male. 

 August, 1875: twenty-one Synergus albipes, Hart.; fifteen 

 l^iirytoma squamea? one Decatoma biguttata? Swed ; one 

 Callimome abrlominalis, Bo/i., female ; six Pteromaliis 

 Saxesenii ? Ratz.; three Pteroraalus sp. ? September, 1875: 

 two Callimome regius, Nees, male and female. November, 

 1875 (10th to 22nd): four Dryophanta divisa, Hart., females. 

 April, 1876: one Synergus Tscheki, Mayr, male. May, 

 1876: ten Eurytoma sp. .'' nine males and one female; 

 two Decatoma biguttata? ten Syntomaspis cyanea, Bolt., 

 males. June, 1876: one Eurytoma sp. ? male; eight 

 Syntomaspis cyanea, females. Number of galls collected 

 (including several double and many immature), two hundred 

 and forty-eight; number of insects bred, eighty-six. — E. A. 

 Fitch. 



52. Dryophanta agama, Hart. — This gall, of the size of a 

 hemp-seed, occurs on the side veins of the under side of the 

 leaves of Quercus sessiliflora and Q. peduncidata. It appears 

 first in June, when it is of a yellowish white colour, but later 

 on changes to a raore or less intense yellowish brown. It has 

 a bare; smooth, slightly shining surface, and is covered with 

 scattered, flat, brown and inconspicuous nodules. It is 

 moderately hard, transversely oviform, and is much flattened 

 next the leaf, to which it closely adheres, although only 

 attached at the centre, and does not show on the upper side. 

 In section it exhibits a loose parenchyma, from half to one 

 millimetre in thickness, which surrounds a comparatively 

 large larva-cell without an inner gall. Herr von Schlechtendal 

 states October and November to be the flight time of the 

 gall-fly.— C. L. Mayr. 



Synergus pallicornis and S. albipes, Syntomaspis cyanea 

 and Torymus regius, are the attendants of this species 

 recorded by Mayr.— £. A. Fitch. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, S^c. 

 Relaxing, Grease, ^c. — The following method of relaxing 

 insects may be recommended for its extreme simplicity and 

 handiness. Take a common glass cylinder, — say four inches 



