THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
No. 144.] JULY, MDCCCLXXYV. [Price 6d. 
Descriptions of Oak-galls. Translated from Dr. G. L. Mayr’s 
‘Die Mitteleuropiischen EKichengallen’ by Mrs. Hubert 
HERKOMER née WEISE. 
(Continued from p, 122.) 
Fig. 27. 
APHILOTHRIX LUCIDA, 
27. Aphilothrix lucida, Hart.—The spherical, pale yellow 
gall which is found on shrubby Quercus pedunculata, 
Q. sessiliflora, and Q. pubescens, is generally about as large 
as a cherry, but sometimes is found as big as a walnut. Its 
whole surface is covered with stiff, stalky or fibrous pro- 
jections, which stand out radiately, and terminate in a rusty 
red papilla. In section it exhibits a hard texture, with 
numerous egg-shaped cavities: in these live the larve of the 
gall-fly, without being separately enclosed in an inner gall. 
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