2 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the upper one—the larger of the two—is egg-shaped, and 
surrounded by a thin whitish layer (of the inner gall) ; the 
lower cavity—extending in a horizontal direction—is either 
empty or filled with a spongy reticulation.—G. L. Mayr. 
Dr. Mayr gives no Synergus as inhabiting this gall, but 
undoubtedly there is one, as in a letter from Mr. Rothera 
relating to this gall, which he has found at Ollerton, near 
Nottingham, he says:—“ On making a longitudinal section 
of a third gall, I found at the base the same irregular 
decaying space as before; but in the neck of the gall three 
chambers, separated by septa, and each containing a well- 
developed maggot.” This clearly points to Synergus. As 
Dr. Mayr does not give the time of appearance of the gall, I 
may say Mr. Rothera found it first on the 27th of August, 
and later immature specimens on the 28th of September, but 
in a different year; so the immature gall is probably to be 
met with throughout the autumn.— EL. A. Fitch. 
35. Aphilothria Clementine, Gir.—This spherical gall 
is about the size of a pea (five millimetres). Its base is 
insignificantly elongate, and has at its 
Fig. 35. summit, exactly opposite, a short coni- 
cal projection. It is of a brownish 
yellow colour, and several small, flat- 
tened, conical projections are irre- 
= b -  gularly scattered over its surface, 
Apnmorurx Crementixn, Which is slightly rugose and sprinkled 
a,b. Gallsof A. Clementine, With hairs, which are recurved in the 
c. Section of the same. direction of the base of the gall. 
Near the top, however, and especially 
below the more or less distinctly-marked point, the growth of 
these hairs is more abundant. The section exhibits two 
layers of the consistency of leather: the exterior one is thin 
and yellow; the interior also thin and red-brown, enclosing a 
large spherical cavity, in which the yellow spherical inner 
gall lies loosely. Director Tschek informed me by letter 
that he had found this gall lying on the ground under high 
trees of Quercus sessiliflora, on the topmost branches of 
which tree it appears to grow. The gall seems to fall late in 
the autumn, generally after the first frost. Director Tschek 
noticed in those galls which had recently fallen that they 
still retained the bud-like scales at their base. Frauenfeld 
