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rather the individuals that hatched from them. In some of 

 the galls the dwarf forms recorded in my former paper were also 

 fomid. 



Except in a few cases the females were in excess of the males. 

 If galls are opened, when the first sexual forms have begun to 

 hatch, males (one, two, or three, etc.) will be found. This means. 



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no doubt, that males hatch first, or possibly that the first eggs 

 produced are males. Since later more females than males are 

 present, it follows that more female-producing than male-pro- 

 ducing eggs are laid. The most striking departure from the 

 ordinary ratios is that in the first count in WW where there 

 were 7 males to 51 females. 



