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— 4 Vanessa Urticae, 2 Cidaria miata (in very fine condition), 

 4 Gonoptera Libatrix (also very fine), and 5 Alucita poly- 

 dactyla. I used to fancy that some of the miata remained in 

 pnpa all the winter, as the spring examples were sometimes 

 so fresh-looking; bnt certainly no bred specimens coidd ex- 

 ceed in brightness of colonring the two above mentioned. 

 The species must be abundant about the building, for there 

 were lots of the wings in the spiders' webs with which the 

 windows were plentifully furnished. — C. G. Barrett ; Hasle- 

 mere, February 1, 1865." It seems to me that the very titles 

 of these papers convey the idea that the hybernation of 

 Cidaria miata was the fact recorded ; but Entomologists 

 must judge for themselves. — Edward Newman. 



161. Rose-shaped Galls of the Willow. — You will find, on 

 reference to the Report of the March Meeting of the Ento- 

 mological Society (Entora. 212), that Mr. Bond exhibited a 

 quantity of rose-shaped galls, from the tips of the highest 

 twigs of willow trees, found in the neighbourhood of Cam- 

 bridge. At the Meeting it was the opinion, expressed by 

 some of the members, that these galls were produced by the 

 punctures of some species of Cynips; others inclined to the 

 opinion that they were those of some Dipterous insect. As 

 no opportunity had been aflTorded members to examine the 

 larvae, all was mere surmise. Mr. Bond kindly supplied me 

 with a quantity of ihese galls, and I am now breeding from 

 them a species of Cecidomyia. I find, on reference to Mr. 

 Walker's Monograph on the Diptera, that several species of 

 Cecidomyia cause rose-shaped galls to form on different spe- 

 cies of willow — C. albipennis, C. rosaria, C. heterobia, &c., 

 but none of these appear to be our insect. Probably Mr. 

 Inchbald has already, or will let us know, the name of the 

 fl}'^, if it be not new to Science. My only object in commu- 

 nicating this information is to make known the result of my 

 experience in breeding the insect. 1 should add that 1 have 

 also bred, probably from the twigs on which the galls are 

 formed, a few specimens of a species of sawfly belonging to 

 the family Nemati, and I believe of the genus Cryptocomo- 

 pus : these particulars I hope to communicate sliortly. — 

 Frederick Smith ; British Museiwi, May 15, 1865. 



P.S. — My correspondent, Mr. P. Inchbald, published, in 

 the Jnne number of the ' Naturalist,' a paper on " The 



