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upon them, as 1 am aware that my non-intercourse with the 

 entomological world for a year or two past has left me far 

 behind possibly on this very point. I was able last spring to 

 settle, to my own satisfaction at least, a question raised by 

 myself in the first article I published on the Cynipidae, — the 

 question whether the woolly galls, C. q.-seminator, Harris^ 

 and C. q. -operator, Osien-Sacken, were or were not abnormally 

 developed leaves, I took the ground that they were, that the 

 eggs were deposited in the oak-bud, that the small seed-like 

 gall was only a modified leaf-stem and blade, and that the 

 wool was only an enormous development of the pubescence 

 always present on the young leaves. Mr. B. D. Walsh 

 opposed this idea, and, either in a published paper or in a 

 letter to me, denied that the gall had any connexion whatever 

 with the bud or leaves. Last spring I was so fortunate as to 

 find two galls of C. q.-seminator in their earliest stage, and 

 w^as able to watch them in their development. They are 

 really developed from buds, and are, as I supposed, only 

 modified leaves. The smooth shining cell or gall is the 

 petiole of the leaf, and the tuft of long woolly hairs that 

 terminates the cell is only the enormous development of the 

 leaf's pubescence." 



Haggersion Entomological Society, Exhibition. — The Hag- 

 gerston Entomological Society intend holding their annual 

 exhibition on the 13th and 14th of November, 1873, between 

 the hours of six and eleven o'clock. The committee will be 

 glad to hear from any gentlemen willing to exhibit. All 

 communications to be addressed to the Society's Rooms, 

 10, Brownlow Street, Dalston. — R. G. Bury, Secretary. 



Contributions to the Collection of the Entomological Club. 

 — W. Machin, four Arctia Urticae, four Sideria Achatana, 

 six Ditula semifasciana, two Ypsolopha horridella, two 

 Coleophora saturatella, two C. albitarsella, two C. solitariella, 

 two C. vitisella, two Scotosia vetulata, four Rhodophaea for- 

 mosella, two Euchromia flammeana, two Teras caudana, and 

 two Sciaphila nubilana. J. Jenner Weir, two Agrolera 

 nemoralis. For these presents I return, on behalf of the 

 Entomological Club, ray very sincere thanks. — E. Netvman. 



At Home. — Edward' Newman will be at home, at 7, York 

 Grove, Peckham, every Friday evening, at six o'clock, until 

 further notice. 



