Vlil CONTENTS. 



21. INSECT MAGICIANS. 



This vignette is intended to represent the magical effects produced in vegetable 

 growth by the punctures of various Gall-Flies. To the right, on the Briar 

 Eose, are three of the moss-like galls termed Eose Bedeguars, each enclos- 

 ing eggs or larvse of the Producing Fly (Cynips BOSCR). The Gall-Fly itself 

 is figured to the left, above, and the largest and most gaily coloured insect 

 of the four, also distinguished by a tail-like appendage, is a parasitic Ich- 

 neumon ( Calimon^ Bedeguaris), as often as the true Gail-Fly an occupant of 

 the Eose Bedeguars. On the rose-leaves above the moss-like tufts are two 

 other galls, globular and spiny, produced by another Cynips, also figured 

 above. To the left, on the branch of oak, are various fruit-like galls. The 

 largest, full of perforations, is the common Oak-apple, when turned brown 

 after exit, through these holes, of its Gall-Fly inhabitants (Cynips Querctts), 

 one of which is represented in the centre of the vignette. This and the 

 other flies are considerably magnified. On the oak-leaves are several berry- 

 ehaped galls, green tinged with red, called leaf or currant galls, and nearly 

 : pimilar to those 'which hang in bunches from the catkins. Above and 

 below the large Oak-apple, and proceeding from the branch, are two of 

 the artichoke galls of the oak-bud. The excrescence, of somewhat oblong 

 form and variegated colour, attached to a low branch in the centre of the 

 foreground, was drawn from a specimen found amongst many others in 

 HighgateWood ... . . . . . . . . . 60' 



" Oh ! most royal retribution /" 



Subject to the wand of a Fairy Cyni/ps, the shade of the Merry Monarch sits 

 imprisoned in an oak-apple . . . . . . . ... 71 



22. A LOVE AMONG THE ROSES. 



.Two of the golden green Eose Chafer (Cetonia, aurata), seeking their favourite 



repast of pollen in the heart of a Eose 72 



" There's a pet for you /" 



A S tag-Beetle, Lwxmus Ser-wis, exhibits- its playful propensities by tossing a 

 '. ,ball pf cotton on its, horns no fancy, but attested fact .... 93 



