THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
No. 134.] OCTOBER, MDCCCLXXIV. [Prick 6d, 
Descriptions of Oak-galls. Translated from Dr. G. L. Mayr’s 
‘Die Mitteleuropaischen Eichengallen’ by Mrs. HuBerr 
HERKOMER née WEISE. 
16. Cynips hungarica.—This Fig. 16. 
species produces a spherical, 
rather hard yellowish brown 
gall, thirteen to thirty-five 
millemetres in diameter. Over 
the whole surface are scattered 
small conical excrescences: 
these are generally short, and 
either obtuse or slightly point- 
ed; they are united by raised 
keels, which are more or less 
obtuse, and often rather in- 
distinct. In some specimens 
the excrescences are strongly 
developed, while in others they 
are very indistinct. A section 
of the mature gall exhibits 
a brown spongy parenchyma, 
which has an irregular cavity 
in the centre; the thin-walled 
inner gall is seated there on 
a stalk proceeding from the 
reticulation. This, which is 
the largest one-chambered gall 
observed by me in the country 
near Vienna and in Hungary, 
occurs on Quercus pedunculata, 
falls off in the autumn, and is Cyyres nuncantca (and in section). 
VOL. VII. QF 
