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bearinj^ these galls they fall in immense quantities. On 

 May '22ud and ^oth of this year (1871) I found the galls in 

 great numbers near Vienna, mostly on Q. puhescemt. Several 

 times 1 IbiMid the galls of A'. Schleclilendali and Andricvs 

 amenti together, on the same catkin. Herr v. Schlechtendal 

 found the galls on May 7th, 18()9. He kept them on wet 

 sand, and obtained the small gallflies on July 28th of the 

 following year. — G. L. Mayr. 



This inconspicuous little catkin gall has not been recorded 

 as British. Probably it occins here, but has been overlooked. 

 — E. A. Fitch. 



Fig. 88. — Galls of .« Cijnips seviinationis. Fig. 88 a. Of i* C. injiorescentice. 



88. f Cynips seminationis, Gir. ('-^ Ct/nips inJloresceniUe, 

 Schlechtendal). — This gall, which, according to Dr. Giraud, 

 is to be found on Quercus pediinculdta, and bears a great 

 resemblance to the gall of AphilothrLv callidoma, occurs on 

 a catkin with a thickened stalk. It is of about the size of a 

 barley-corn, or slightly smaller, spindle-shaped, pedunculated 

 or sessile, and covered with few or u)any more or less sharply 

 defined, often quite indistinct, longitudinal ribs. The green, 

 later brown, often (as C. iiijloresceiilice) bearing red longitu- 

 dinal striations, gall is covered with deflected, light, short, 

 scattered hairs, and bears a papilla at the apex ; at the base 

 it is encircled with a dense wreath of hairs. According to 

 Dr. Giraud the gall falls in the latter half of May. The 

 gall-fly is quite unknown. — G. L. M.\yr. 



From Dr. Giraud's description this appears to V)e a form of 

 the rather variable gall of AphilolJirix callidoma. Hart. 

 (Eulom. viii. '290), but can be referred to no species with 



