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consult Leuckart’s essay (in the Archiv. f. Anatomie u. Physiologie, 
1885), ‘Ueber die Micropyle und den feineren Bau der Schalenhaut 
bei den Insekteneiern,’ one of the plates illustrating which is 
devoted to the eggs of Lepidoptera.—F. Jerrrey BELL; 
5, Radnor Place, Gloucester Square, W. 
AnpDRicus (APHILOTHRIX) GLANDULE, Schenck.—On the 4th 
November, in walking through Cann Wood, near Plymouth, in 
search of oak-galls, I found this turban-like gall on the terminal 
branches of coppice-grown young oaks. ‘This gall is described 
and nicely figured in the ‘ Entomologist’ (vol. 1x. p. 1); following 
the description it is stated that Mr. Rothera found this gall at 
Ollerton, near Nottingham; but no mention is made whether he 
bred the insect or not. Can Mr. Fitch say when the gall-maker 
appears, and if any Synergus or parasite has been bred from the 
gall ?—G. C. BreneLL; Stonehouse, Plymouth, Nov. 17, 1885. 
TEGEOCRANUS CEPHEIFORMIS.—Mr. A. D. Michael exhibited 
and described, at a late meeting of the Linnean Society, the 
remarkable nymphal stage of the above species, belonging to the 
family Oribatide, which he has lately discovered for the first 
time in England. The whole life-history of this animal he has 
now succeeded in tracing, having in the first instance been led to 
the correct result by dissecting the already fully-formed imago 
out of the inert nymph. The creature in its nymphal stage is 
an exceedingly strange and beautiful one; carrying on its back, 
as concentric shields, the dorsal portions of all its cast-skins, and 
these bordered by a series of singular projections, each bearing 
a rose-leaf-like cuticular process of transparent membrane with 
chitinous nervures. The drawing of the nymph was first sent to 
Mr. Michael, two years ago, by Herr Pappe, of Bremen. 
Norru Kent Entromontoaicat Socrery’s Exurerrion.—The 
first Annual Exhibition of Insects, shown in Pocket-boxes, of 
this Society, was held at the Coffee Palace, Woolwich, on 
Thursday, November 19th, and, although the majority of the 
members have had but little spare time during the past season, 
it may be considered fairly satisfactory. The exhibitors were the 
President of the Society, Mr. W. G. Dawson, whose contribution 
included Thecla rubi, T. w-album, Sphinx convolvuli, Nemoria 
viridata, and many other species too numerous to mention. Mr. 
Smith, Vice-President, exhibited, among others, Argynnis paphia, 
