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with T. ganomella. By sweeping Elachista apicipunctella, 

 E. humiliella, E. tceiiiatella, E. zonariella, E. subochreella, 

 and E. Gleic/ietiella, turned up. In vain I swept and looked 

 from morn till eve for Coleop/iora fuscocitprella, unly taking 

 one; I saw it walking on a nul-leaf. The same spot yielded 

 rae over fifty larvge last September, from which 1 did not breed 

 a single specimen. From among the Heliatiihemuin I swept 

 some fine Bulalis fuscocuprella and Laveriia misceUa; the 

 tops of the Hypericum were twisted in all directions with 

 Depressaria hypericella larvae. 



The next excursion was early in June to the banks of the 

 Wyre, near Fleetwood, to look for larvae of Gelechia insiahi- 

 lella in the roots of Plantago uiaritima, and G. ocellalella in 

 the leaves of Asler iripolium. By the way, I was greatly 

 misled for years how to find G. instahilcUa larvae : I have 

 looked over acres of plantain leaves to no purpose, until one 

 day I was looking earnestly at a lot of dead, yellowish brown 

 roots, and it just struck me how the sea-pink looked when 

 Sericoris litforana had been there. 1 at once broke off a 

 dead root, and there was the fine yellow larva, with a black 

 head, of Gelechia inslahilella. I bred a nice series from this 

 find. 1 may here note that 1 bred several specimens of 

 Diliila semifnsciatia, from larvae feeding on the wild carrot. 

 I got them along with Depressaria Douglasella. 



My next paper will be on July captures. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF OAK-GALLS. 

 Translated from Dr. G. L. Mayr's ' Die Mitteleuropaischen Eichengallen. 



By Edward A. Fitch. 



(Continued from p. 10.) 



79. Andriciis cestivalis, Gir. — This gall may be found in 

 great numbers, a short time after the blossom, on the 

 thickened and shortened catkins of Quercus cerris. It 

 occurs in such a manner that the galls being distributed, like 

 the flowers, they together very much resemble a mulberry. 

 Its shape is almost oviform, being 2 to 4 centimetres long by 

 I'o to 3-5 broad. The single, greenish yellow or red galls 

 are more or less pressed into one another, especially at the 

 base, but are quite free at the apex. When mature each gall 

 is cup-shaped, thin at the base, and expanding gradually to 



