THK ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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sides of tlie larva are dingy 

 green, divided by a narrow 

 gray stripe ; spiracles black. 

 Full fed middle to end of 

 May. 



The size of the imago is 1 

 inch 1 line to 1 inch 4 lines. 

 Fore wings grayish brown, a 

 very pale gray streak from the 

 base ofthe wing near the cosla; 

 stigma much paler; hind 

 edge of the reniform stigma 

 being well and distinctly 

 marked ; three black wedge- 

 shaped spots precede the 

 somewhat distinct snbtermi- 

 nal line. The perfect insects 

 appear end of July to middle 

 of August. 



is a line of blackish green, 

 then a thin gray-brown line, 

 followed by another broad 

 stripe of dingy dark green ; 

 the black spiracles being 

 beneath its lower edge: tlie 

 whole aspect of the larva of 

 A. aquilina being dingy. Full 

 fed end of May. 



The size of the imago is 1 

 inch 4 lines to 1 inch 5 lines. 

 Fore wings pale brownish, with 

 a strong tendency to ochreous ; 

 a pale ochreous-brown streak 

 from the base near the costa ; 

 stigma much paler, with the 

 hind margin of the reniform 

 stigma scarcely defined, or 

 lost; three or four blackish 

 wedge-shaped dashes precede 

 a very indistinct subterminal 

 line. The moth appears late 

 in July and early in August, 



John T. Carrixgton. 



Descriptions of Oak-fjalh. Translated from Dr. G. L. Mayii's 

 'Die Mitteleuropaischen Eichengallen' by E. A. FrrcH,Esq. 



(Contiuued from p. 150.) 



53. Dnjoplianta disticha, Hart. — This gall lig- 53. 

 appears on the under side of the leaves of 

 Quercus sessiliflora, and is not visible on the 

 upper side. It is of a cylindrically-spherical 

 shape, and grows generally to a height of four 

 millimetres, with a little longer transverse dia- 

 meter. It adheres to a side rib by means of 

 a very short pedicle, and is much compressed 

 at that spot; it is also Hattened at the top, and jj, disticha 

 has ill the centre an mnbilicated papilla. It is (ami in section). 



