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also sometimes rather narrower in form, the stripes or bands 

 appearing thinner (on account of the loss of sap in drying). 

 In a letter to me Herr von Schlechtendal has corrected his 

 former statement that the galls also appear on the young 

 one-year old twigs. Since the galls of S. Taschenheryl and 



Fig. !Jti. — Galls oi Spatheyastcr Tintclienheryi ; aud maguitieil. 



S. fiosculi stand so very near one another, and the imagos of 

 both species only differ in iniiniportant points, I can come to 

 no other conclusion, from our present knowledge, than that 

 they are both one species. — G. L. Mayr. 



In May of last year Miss E. A. Ormerod and Mr. G. B. 

 Rothera both sent me galls, which are doubtfully referable to 

 this species. They were collected respectively from Sedbury 

 Park (Gloucestershire) and from the neighbourhood of Not- 

 tingham. I have lately also received specimens of the gall 

 from Mr. P. Cameron. As with several bud-galls, so here: 

 it is likely there are two or three closely-allied species, 

 which are not as yet distinctly defined. — E. A. Fitch. 



These translations are at last completed. Commenced by 

 Mrs. Hubert Herkomer {nee Weise), with notes by the late 

 Francis Walker and Edward Newman, and finished by 

 myself, they have run through five volumes of the ' Entomo- 

 logist.' This length has no doubt made them wearisome to 

 many, but by some 1 am assured they have been appreciated ; 

 and no better starting-point can be taken, for a knowledge 

 of the various galls, than Dr. Mayr's excellent figures and 

 descri)jtions. The translation has been kept as literal as 

 possible, and in my added notes 1 have endeavoured to 

 collate what is already put on record respecting the various 

 species. A knowledge of galls has been aimed at by many, 

 but the difficulty of finding a foundation on which to build 

 has deterred many workers. This is shown by the many 

 enquiries that have reached me for books on the subject: of 

 these there are none ; gall literature is mostly scattered in 

 various entomological serials. After the works of Malpighi, 



