THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
No. 156.] JUNE, MDCCCLXXVI. [Price 6d. 
Descriptions of Oak-galls. Trauslated from Dr. G. L. Mayr’s 
‘Die Mitteleuropadischen Kichengallen’ by E. A. Fircu, Esq. 
(Continued from p. 117.) 
Fig. 48.—DryoPHaNTA SCUTELLARIS (and in section). 
48. Dryophanta scutellaris, Oliv. (Cynips folii, Hartig, 
Schenck, Schlechtendal).—The gall of this species, which is 
universally known and te be met with throughout Europe, is 
large, juicy when recent nd spherical. It appears on the 
under side of the leaves « Quercus sessiliflora and Q. pedun- 
culata; it only adheres t the leaf in one spot, which is the 
reason it does not show « 1 the upper side. It varies in size - 
from one to two centimetres in diameter, and is of a green, 
yellow, or—if exposed o the sun—red colour; its surface is 
either smooth or me or less covered with small papilla. 
Even when dry the ,a:. somewhat resists the dividing knife ; 
however, it exhibits in .ection no actual inner gall, only a 
spongy, loose, gingerbread-like parenchyma, which contains 
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