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2200 feet ; what the upper limit may be I do not l<now. By- 

 day it hides closely amongst the rocks and heath, and at 

 night the male flies wildly ; the female I never saw on the 

 wing at all." He also says he and his friend never took 

 more than one or two on any night. 



1 think it probable that there will be few years in future 

 without a recorded capture of Pachnobia hypoborea in Scot- 

 land ; but I am not inclined lo tiiink it will be again taken in 

 such number as has been the case this season, which was 

 exceptionally hot and dry in the Highlands. 



John T. Carbington. 



Descriptions of Ortk-ffdlls. Translated from Dr. G. L. Mayr's 

 *Die Alilteleuropaischen Eichengallen ' by E. A. FiTCH, Esq. 



(Continued from p. 221.) 



Fig. 59. — Andeicus Cydonm: (and in section). 



59. Andricus Ci/doiiiee, Gir. — I hardly think I am wrong 

 in closely connecting the development of the gall of this 

 species, which also occurs on the Turkey oak, with that of 

 the preceding one, and in stating that the principal difference 

 between the two consists in the galls of A. multiplicatus 

 having a rather flat disk surrounded by the crippled leaves, 

 while those of A. Cydonise have a jug-shaped disk, from the 

 top of which the more or less crippled leaves shoot. The 

 gall appears either in the place of an axillar bud or at the 

 end of a twig. It is either spherical or swollen into the shape 

 of an egg, of the average size of a hazel-nut, green, and 

 thickly covered with short gray hairs, which are either 

 simple or twisted; on the basal half are several scattered 



