NOTi:s, CAl'lLKKS, KTC. llO 



This little catkin-gall, wiiicli Crom its size would readily 

 escape observation, has already been recorded as British. 

 Dr. Girand obtained the gall-flies by thousands from the 

 16th to the Q'lih of May, l)iit I find no mention of any 

 parasites. — E. A. Fitch. 



83. Andricus occuUus, Tschek. (Verb. zool. hot. Ges.. 

 1871, p. 797). — In the latter half of May, when the 

 staminiferous catkins of Queicus pubfscens are generally 

 fully developed, we tnay sometimes find some which are 

 still undeveloped. This catkin bloom, on account of the 

 non-development of the flower-stalk, becomes spherical, and 

 is more or less surrounded, at the base as well as at the 

 sides, by the divided but crowded bud-scales. If we now 

 remove a portion of the anthers and perianth, so that the 

 flower-stalk is laid bare, we shall see one to three reddish 

 brown galls, of about the size of a millet-seed, in the middle 

 of the catkin, generally on the top of the slightly-thickened 

 stalk, which is only from 2 to 2"5 millimetres long. When 

 the flower-bud produces more than one catkin, either each 

 of them contains one or two galls, or the one producing 

 galls remains spherical, whilst the others become fully 

 developed. The gall itself is very like that of Andricus 

 amenti. It is 2 to 2*5 millimetres long, oviform, pointed at 

 the upper end as well as at the base, reddish brown ; at the 

 base it is smooth, or covered with small, extremely short, 

 stiff bristles, whilst on the upper half it is thickly covered 

 quite to the apex with long, rather soft, red-brown and 

 yellow hairs. Perianth leaves n)ay often be (bund springing 

 from the gall, but 1 can detect no anthers. The periphery 

 of the gall, like that of A. amenti, is thin, and encloses the 

 larva chamber, or inner gall. The gall-fly leaves the gall in 

 May, during the blooming lime. — G. L. Mayr. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Vanessa Antiopa in Surkky. — A friend of mine, Mr. 

 Bodkin, who is an artist in this neighbourhood, has to-day 

 brought me a remarkably fine .specimen of Vanessa Antiopa, 

 which he caught, on April 5lh, in a wood about four miles 

 from this village. It is very perfect, and none the worse for 

 its winter hibernation. — E. Capkon ; Shere, near Guildford, 

 April 16, 1878. 



CoLiAS Edusa in .Ai'KIL. — On April i 8th, this year, I saw 



