258 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
hips of various roses (osa spp.) cannot be classed as a gall- 
maker. 
In Walker’s Monograph of the British Tephritites (Ent. 
Mag. iii., 57—85), thirty-three species are described, and a plate 
illustrates their wing-markings. In Walker’s Diptera (Insecta 
Britannica) sixty-one species are included. T’. reticulata, Schrk. 
(— pupillata, Fallen.), occurs in neither of these works. The 
figure above will at once serve to recognise this beautiful species, 
which is included in the subgenus Carphotricha, as also is 
T. guttularis. The wing has been already figured by Dr. H. 
Loew in Germav’s ‘ Zeitschrift fur die Entomologie ’ (vol v., pl. ii., 
fig. 53), where two excellent plates of wing-markings, illustrating 
seventy species, accompanies his monograph of the eighty 
European species of the genus Trypeta, as restricted by Meigen. 
Dr. Loew’s later and larger work, ‘ Die Kuropiischen Bohrfliegen,’ 
which is illustrated with twenty-six photographic plates, I have 
not seen. 
Mr. Enock gave me a pair of the imagos of 7. reticulata last 
May, and shortly after sent me some of the galled flower-heads 
of Hieracium, similar to those from which they were bred. From 
these I succeeded in rearing one male and three females of the 
Trypeta, and several specimens of a parasitic Pteromalus (pro- 
bably Forster’s P. Trypete). 
The plant from which Mr. Enock’s galls were collected has 
been determined, on good authority, to be either Hieracium umbel- 
latum or H. sabaudum; from the absence of stem leaves it is 
almost impossible to say which. The gall-maker, however, 
doubtless affects several of these closely allied and puzzling 
Composite. It is also very probably generally distributed, 
though hitherto overlooked. In Prof. J. W. H. Trail’s “ Galls 
and their Makers in Dee” (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Aberdeen, 
1878, p. 66), we read :—‘* Hieracium boreale, Fries. B. The gall, 
like that in Hypocheris radicata, is a swollen ovary, oval, one- 
sixth by one-twelfth to one-eighth of an inch, blunt at the ends, 
surface with four blunt longitudinal ridges, between which are 
less distinct ridges, hairy; walls hard and woody, enclosing a 
cell inhabited by a larva of Trypeta. Two occurred in a flower- 
head gathered at Banchory in August; the affected flower-head 
was not altered externally.” This description clearly refers to 
the galls of 7. reticulata. 
