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referred to by Mr. Tenant (Entom. xi. 188), appears to be the 
chief employment of these insects during the daytime. August is 
the month when this species makes its appearance, and its song 
may be heard thence away to the latter end of September. 
“He is an evening reveller, who makes 
His life an infancy and sings his fill.” 
—R. Lappiman; Upper Hellesdon, Norwich, December 16, 1878. 
Oaxk-LEAF Harry Gauis (SPATHEGASTER TRICOLOR).— On 
May 25th last I found these galls in considerable numbers at 
Shanklin, Isle of Wight, on low-cut hedge oaks. They were 
apparently full grown, three-tenths of an inch or so in diameter, 
and, as yet, unperforated. Five days later the first Spathegaster 
appeared. On the morning of May 30th I passed, on my way 
from Brading Harbour to White Cliff Bay, through Centurion’s 
Copse, which contained many pollard and cut oaks. On them I 
found these galls in such numbers as I had never before seen. 
The leaves in many instances were literally loaded with them, 
thicker than currant galls often are. Next day, on an excursion 
from Shanklin to Apse Castle, I again found these galls in great 
profusion, always on cut oaks. Throughout the island the 
hedgerows, as in Devonshire, are frequently planted in high 
banks, and have numerous small oak-trees growing along them. 
The roots of these strike through the bank and throw out 
shoots which, being cut year after year, become thick and bushy. 
On these the galls are found in astonishing numbers. They are 
usually met with on the under surface of the leaf, though at 
times they appear on the edge, or, at least, the leaf has so curled 
round during their growth as to expose them to the sun and 
light. When this is so they show, as in the case of many other 
galls, bright crimson, more or less diffused according to exposure. 
When much shaded (and it seems to be the habit of the parent 
insect to oviposit in situations where this, as a rule, occurs) the 
galls are almost snowy white, and are then thickly beset with hairs. 
As they grow older, and especially when much exposed, these 
hairs dry up, and in very many instances the galls are found 
perfectly glabrous. In all cases they present a beautifully waxy 
appearance, often resembling a delicate green, or green and red, 
miniature peach. They are frequently so aggregated as to make 
compact clusters, and coalesce to form double and treble galls. 
Sometimes even as many as six or eight will be fused together in 
