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A large Lepidopterous larva has occasionally been 
found feeding in the interior of these galls, since Walker's 
notes; but, as far as I know, the species to which it belongs 
has not been determined at present. (See Entom. viii. 167, 
and other notes.) In addition to the five species mentioned 
by Walker, three others have been recorded from this gall. 
Thecla Quercus.—A larva of this butterfly was found 
feeding on oak-apples by Mr. Barrett (Ent. Mo. Mag. iv. 153.) 
Hedya (Spilonota) ocellana, Fab.—A common species, 
flying in June and July; the larva feeds on various trees and 
shrubs. Ratzeburg received seven species of [chneumonide 
as parasitic on it; one of these—Microdus rufipes—is men- 
tioned in these notes. 
Semasia (E'phippiphora) gallicolana, Zell., = obscurana, 
Wilk. non Steph.—On the 23rd June, 1869, Mr. C. W. Dale 
bred a specimen of this rare species from an oak-apple, 
collected in the spring, near Sherborne, Dorsetshire, which 
he first recorded under the name Stigmonota internana, Gu, 
—quite a different species. However, his mistake was recti- 
fied by the Editors of Ent. Mo. Mag., who gave us the 
following piece of information at the end of their note :— 
“Dr. Réssler states that the larve of S. gallicolana live 
through the winter in the old and dried galls of Cynips 
quercts-terminalis, which are firmly fixed on the twigs of 
young oaks, and that severe winters seem to be fatal to 
them; after a mild winter nearly every gall collected pro- 
duced one or several of the moth.” (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. 186.) 
As pointed out by Mr. Barrett, in his “ Notes on Tortrices,” 
in the same magazine, this species has been confounded with 
Halonota (Phthoroblastis) costipunctana, Haw. Kaltenbach 
(‘Die Pflanzen-feinde, p. 659) says:—*“P. costipunctana, 
Haw. — gallicolana, Z. The larva lives, according to Von 
- Heyden, on oak, in the galls of Cynips terminalis, Z., and is 
not uncommon at Frankfort: in these it lives in an out- 
stretched cavity, leaves the gall in October, and the imago 
appears in May of the following year (Stett. Entom. Zeit. 
xxi. p. 118). I received this species from Dr. Ott Hofman, 
who likewise had bred them in numbers from these oak- 
galls.” 
From these observations it appears that this moth is 
undoubtedly an oak-apple inquiline; and from Mr. Barrett’s 
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