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dorsal surface transversely wrinlled. Colour of the bead 

 dingy green, reticulated with brown ; dorsal surface of the 

 body pale purple-brown, inclining to pink on the 2nd, 

 3rd and 4th segments, and obscurely reticulated thi-ough- 

 out with smoky brown ; spiracles pale wainscot-brown, sur- 

 rounded with jet-black : ventral surface pale olive-green, 

 irrorated with dingy white, many of the white markings 

 emitting pale hairs ; claspers concolorous with the ventral 

 surface ; legs pale transparent green tipped with pink. At 

 the fall of the leaf it descends to the ground, and, entering the 

 earth, forms a hybernaculum, in which it remains until April, 

 and then assumes the pupa-stale, the moth making its ap- 

 pearance in May or June. For a supply of this larva and 

 information respecting its economy I am indebted to Mr. 

 Wright. — E. Newman. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc. 



Galls and Gall-insects. — I send you a few Hymenoptera, 

 &c., which I have reared from galls during the past summer. 

 Unfortunately, from my limited knowledge of that order of 

 insects, I can say but little about them, but the images may- 

 interest you. 



Those on No. 1 card [Cynips Fecundatrix] are from the 

 artichoke-gall of the oak. The eggs appear to be laid on the 

 leaf and fruit-buds indiscriminately; when on the latter the 

 young larva eats its way down into the germ of the future 

 acorn, which ceases growing, and the cup becomes unnatu- 

 rally developed, forming a dense imbricated mass of scales : 

 when on the former I cannot, after the most careful search, 

 discover that a gall is formed at all, as in all ray specimens 

 the young larvae were found without other covering than the 

 dwarfed leaves, which formed a much looser habitation than 

 the fruit-bud. The galls (are they galls at all ?) should be 

 collected not later than the middle of August; after that date 

 most of them will be found to be empty, having been eaten 

 out by ihe wood-tit, which destroys large numbers of them. 

 The images sent emerged August 30th and September 2nd ; 

 since then I have had none come out. 



No. 2 [Seladerma Capreae and a species of Platygaster, 

 both of them parasites] are from the woody galls of the goat- 



