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other Instances, simulate in some degree the fruclification 

 of the tree which bears them. But perhaps the most inte- 

 resting of the native galls observable at this season are those 

 of Rubia peregrina, a plant Tarely met with except on the 

 south coast of England, especially in the Isle of Wight and 

 Cornwall. This beautiful little gall so exactly resenibles the 

 fruit of the Rubia, especially when l)oth are slightly shrivelled 

 after gathering, that it is absolutely necessary to cut open 

 both productions, and expose the interior, before deciding 

 whether it contains the usual seed or the larva of a Cynips : 

 in the latter case the substance is always of a spongy texture; 

 the size, colour and situation of the two are absolutely iden- 

 tical : the Cynips which produces the gall is unknown : I call 

 it provisionally Cynips Rubiae. Lastly, a canipannlate gall, 

 about the size and shape of that delicate little object, a 

 spider's nest, was very commonly suspended from the under 

 side of the leaves of the alder; its sickly yellow-green colour 

 made it very conspicuous when the leaf was turned up, but 

 from the upper side it was invisible. — Edward Newman. 



WhUe huiierjlies, %c. — The comparative rarity of white 

 butterflies has at least not been universal. P. Brassicae, 

 Rapaj and Napi have been in abundance here all the sum- 

 mer. A. Cardamines was in ]irofusion till the very end of 

 June. We have very few varieties of butterflies here, but 

 our usual species occurred plentifully. Atalanta was very 

 late in appearing this year : 1 saw the first specimen on the 

 26th of August. Sugaring has proved useless. At light I 

 have had but indifl'erent success. I never saw so few Co- 

 leoptera. I am but a novice in collecting, but certainly have 

 fared worse this season than ever before. This time last year 

 the garden swarmed with P. meliculosa and P. Gamma ; this 

 year, as yet, not one has appeared. — JV. Douglas Robinson ; 

 Kirkeniian, Dalbeattie, September 9, 18G9. 



White Buiterjiies. — In North Wales, during the first part 

 of this month (August), white butterflies appeared to me to 

 be particularly numerous, more especially P. Brassicae. — 

 Alfred W. Driice ; 21, Chei/ne Walk, Chelsea, August 25. 



White Buiterjiies, b^c, at TJiruxlon. — Pieris Brassictv I 

 have not seen until to-day (Aug. 19), when 1 observed a few 

 specimens on some plants in the kitchen garden, but I have 

 every reason to think they will be quite as common as usual 



