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In a subsequent note (second half, p. 68) Dr. Mayr says :— 
“The gall falls in October, while it is yet fresh and soft, and 
passes the winter on the ground.” I have found the galls of 
this species in Essex (see Entom. vii. 24, and Ent. Mo. Mag. 
xi. 110) in the autumn, and even as late as the middle of 
December, still in the bud, where it is easily seen on account 
of its green colour. I, however, failed to breed any of their 
inmates, probably from the inner galls withering, as no doubt 
this species, like the Neuroteri (leaf-spangles), requires to be 
collected from the ground in the spring to be successful. 
Dr. Mayr gives Synergus ruficornis, S. vulgaris, and Calli- 
mome regius, Nees, as inhabiting its galls; Prof. Kaltenbach 
gives Siphonura chalybea, Zt/zb.; Ratzeburg himself gives 
Eupelmus azureus, which, as he says, is probably hyper- 
parasitic ; and Hartig gives Neuroterus (Ameristus) parasiticus 
as parasitic in the gall of this species. Another year I hope 
to see which of these we have in Britain.—E. A. Fitch. 
31. Aphilothrix autumnalis, Hart.—There is _ fig. 31. 
much similarity between the gall of this and the 
last-described species. Like that, more than half 
is covered with bud-scales: it is, when fresh, of a 
green colour, and has beneath the scarf-skin a thin 
fleshy reticulation, and at the summit a small round 
wart. It differs from the gall of A. globuli in its 4 oeyy. 
more oval or prolate form; in its being from three  arzs, 
and a half to five millimetres long, and having m situ: a, de- 
a diagonal diameter of two and a half to three ‘** 
and a half millimetres; in the surface of the inner gall 
having no reticular rings, but blunt, longitudinal striations, 
which also show on the surface of the brown gall, 
for in the process of drying the thin fleshy layer adheres 
closely to the inner gall. According to Hartig this gall does 
not burst forth from the bud till the beginning of October, 
and falls to the ground in the middle of the same month. I 
have only found it once, but have had several fresh specimens 
sent to me by Herr Tschek, of Piesting—G. LZ. Mayr. 
This gall, I believe, occurs in Britain; but owing to the 
great confusion existing about the various bud-galls, I think 
the less said about this rather obscure species the better, at 
present.—E.. A, Fitch. 
