170 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Descriptions of Oak-galls. Translated from Dr. G. L. Mayr’s 
‘ Die Mitteleuropaischen Hichengallen’. by Mrs. HuBERT 
HERKOMER née WEISE. 
Fig. 12. 
b d 
CyNIPS CONIFICA. 
a. Seen from aboye. c. Sideways. 
b. From below. d. In section. 
12. Cynips conifica.—This rare gall is found on the branches 
(several years old) of Quercus pedunculata and Q. pubescens. 
It is more or less regularly conical, and is much rounded off 
at the top, and measures ten or twelve millemetres in height 
and in thickness at the base. The latter has usually some 
short, stout processes, which are firmly attached to the 
branch. Its colour is brown, the surface being covered with 
short, white stellate hairs, intermixed with longitudinal 
furrows. These latter are somewhat raised, and by them 
the gall is more or less reticulated. The interior of the gall, 
when dried, appears to consist of a light brown, spongy 
reticulation, which closely surrounds the large, wiitish 
yellow woody inner gall, which is situated at the base of the 
outer one. Hitherto | have received but a single specimen 
of the perfect insect. It emerged in March.—G. LZ. Mayr. 
13. Aphilothrix serotina.—Of this delicate gall, which in 
outward appearance bears a resemblance to that of A. lucida, 
I have only seen two specimens, which were given to me by 
