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case. The following is a record of parasitism in these galls; 
galls collected 30th July, 1875, inmates emerged as follows: 
—July, 1875: one Eurytoma squamea? Walk., male. 
August, 1875: twenty-one Synergus albipes, Hart.; fifteen 
Eurytoma squamea? one Decatoma biguttata? Swed.; one 
Callimome abdominalis, Boh., female; six Pteromalus 
Saxesenii? Ra/z.; three Pteromalus sp.? September, 1875: 
two Callimome regius, Nees, male and female. November, 
1875 (10th to 22nd): four Dryophanta divisa, Hart., females. 
April, 1876: one Synergus Tscheki, Mayr, male. May, 
1876: ten Eurytoma sp.? nine males and one female; 
two Decatoma biguttata? ten Syntomaspis cyanea, Boh., 
males. June, 1876: one Eurytoma sp.? male; eight 
Syntomaspis cyanea, females. Number of galls collected 
(including several double and many immature), two hundred 
and forty-eight; number of insects bred, eighty-six.—JL. A. 
Fitch. 
52. Dryophanta agama, Hart.—This gall, of the size of a 
hemp-seed, occurs on the side veins of the under side of the 
leaves of Quercus sessiliflora and Q. pedunculata. It appears 
first in June, when it is of a yellowish white colour, but later 
on changes to a more or less intense yellowish brown. It has 
a bare, smooth, slightly shining surface, and is covered with 
scattered, flat, brown and inconspicuous nodules. It is 
moderately hard, transversely oviform, and is much flattened 
next the leaf, to which it closely adheres, although only 
attached at the centre, and does not show on the upper side. 
In section it exhibits a loose parenchyma, from half to one 
millimetre in thickness, which surrounds a comparatively 
large larva-cell without an inner gall. Herr von Schlechtendal 
states October and November to be the flight time of the 
gall-fly.—G. L. Mayr. 
Synergus pallicornis and §, albipes, Syntomaspis cyanea 
and Torymus regius, are the attendants of this species 
recorded by Mayr.—JL. A. Fitch. 
Entomological Notes, Caplures, ce. 
Relaxing, Grease, §c.—The following method of relaxing 
insects may be recommended for its extreme simplicity and 
handiness. Take a common glass cylinder,—say four inches 
