34 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Latridius lardarius.—July. In the synopsis to Walker’s 
first paper nine species of Coleoptera are said to be included ; 
if we reckon the two species of Lathridius mentioned, viz. 
L. lardarius and L. transversus, we have ten. From this, and 
from the habits of the two species, I think we may infer the 
insect referred to is the same as that bred in September—the 
L. transversus, Oliv., and not L. lardarius, De Geer. 
Balaninus glandium ?—Walker marks this species with a 
query, and it is very probable that the beetles bred by him 
were Balaninus villosus, Herbst, and not the acorn-feeding 
B. glandium, Marsh, as B. villosus (which is a British 
species) has been bred from oak-apples by Dr. Reinhard, 
Dr. Suffrain, and Prof. Kaltenbach. Besides B. villosus, 
another species of this genus is common in Britain as a gall- 
inquiline; the larve of B. Brassice, Fab., feeding on the 
substance of the willow- and sallow-galls of Nematus saliceti 
(= Vallisnieri) and N. pedunculi. 
ORTHOPTERA. 
In addition to the common earwig, another Orthopterous — 
insect has been bred from the galls of this species, viz., 
Meconema varia, Fad. (the tree-grasshopper). 
HYMENOPTERA (Cynipites). 
Andricus terminalis, Fab. = Teras Quercus-terminalis.— 
This insect, the true gall-maker, was for some time rather 
unhappy in the choice of its generic name, as Teras, the 
name given to the genus erected by Hartig, had priority with | 
the Lepidoptera, Treitschke having taken it for a genus of 
Tortricidae. Marshall then endeavoured to resuscitate Geof- 
frey’s name, Diplolepis, while Dr. Forster, in his synopsis of 
genera, proposes Dryoteras; but on Dr. Mayr’s authority it 
is now included in Andricus. 
Synergus socialis—\n Dr. Mayr’s monograph of the 
Synergi this is given as a synonym of S. melanopus, Hart., 
and 8. facialis, Hart., only, recorded as inhabiting A. termi- 
nalis galls. However, as 8. facialis occurs in the summer of 
the first year, probably all Walker's species so bred belonged 
to this species, as I breed it very commonly from oak-apples 
