THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 245 
2200 feet ; what the upper limit may be I do not know. By 
day it hides closely amongst the rocks and heath, and at 
night the male flies wildly; the female I never saw on the 
wing at all.” He also says he and his friend never took 
more than one or two on any night. 
I think it probable that there will be few years in future 
without a recorded capture of Pachnobia hypoborea in Scot- 
land; but Lam not inclined to think it will be again taken in 
such number as has been the case this season, which was 
exceptionally hot and dry in the Highlands. 
JoHN T. CARRINGTON. 
Descriptions of Oak-galls. Translated from Dr. G. L. Mayr’s 
‘Die Mitteleuropaischen Eichengallen’ by E. A. Fircn, Esq. 
(Continued from p. 221.) 
Fig. 59.—Anpricus Cyponre (and in section). 
59. Andricus Cydonia, Gir.—l| hardly think Iam wrong 
in closely connecting the development of the gall of this 
species, which also occurs on the Turkey oak, with that of 
the preceding one, and in stating that the principal difference 
between the two consists in the galls of A. multiplicatus 
having a rather flat disk surrounded by the crippled leaves, 
while those of A. Cydonia have a jug-shaped disk, from the 
top of which the more or less crippled leaves shoot, ‘The 
gall appears either in the place of an axillar bud or at the 
end of a twig. It is either spherical or swollen into the shape 
of an egg, of the average size of a hazel-nut, green, and 
thickly covered with short gray hairs, which are either 
simple or twisted; on the basal half are several scattered 
