YTHE ENTOMOLOGIST, 
sides of the larva are dingy 
green, divided by a narrow 
gray stripe; spiracles black. 
Full fed middle to 
May. 
The size of the 1MAGo is 1 
inch | line to 1 inch 4 lines. 
Fore wings grayish brown, a 
very pale gray streak from the 
base ofthe wing near the costa; 
stigma wuch paler; hind 
edge of the reniform stigma 
being well and _ distinctly 
marked; three black wedge- 
shaped spots precede the 
somewhat distinct subtermi- 
nal line. ‘The perfect insects 
appear end of July to middle 
of August. 
end of 
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is a line of blackish green, 
then a thin gray-brown line, 
followed by another broad 
stripe of dingy dark green; 
the black spiracles being 
beneath its lower edge: the 
whole aspect of the larva of 
A. aquilina being dingy. Full 
fed end of May. 
The size of the maao is 1 
inch 4 lines to 1 inch 5 lines, 
lore wings pale brownish, with 
a strong tendency to ochreous; 
a pale ochreous-brown streak 
from the base near the costa; 
stigma much paler, with the 
hind margin of the reniform 
stigma scarcely defined, or 
lost; three or four blackish 
wedge-shaped dashes precede 
avery indistinct subterminal 
line. The moth appears late 
in July and early in August. 
Joun T. CarrincrTon. 
Descriptions of Oak-galls. Translated from Dr. G. L. Mayr’s 
‘Die Mitteleuropiischen Eichengallen’ by KE. A. Frreu, Esq. 
(Continued from p, 150.) 
53. Dryophanta disticha, Hart.—This gall Fig. 53. 
appears on the under side of the leaves of . 
Quercus sessiliflora, and is not visible on the LU 
upper side. 
meter, 
It is of a cylindrically-spherical 
shape, and grows generally to a height of four 
millimetres, with a little longer transverse dia- 
It adheres to a side rib by means of 
a very short pedicle, and is much compressed 
at that spot; it is also flattened at the top, and 
has in the centre an umbilicated papilla. 
; 1). pIsTICHA 
It is (and in section). 
