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HALF-1IOURS IN THE GREEN LANES. 



passes belongs to the same order as our wasps ani 

 bees that known as the Hyinenoptera. It and its 

 congeners take their popular name from the peculiar 



Fig. 140. 



insect of Button Gall (iJynips longipennis). 

 Fig. 141. Fig. 142. 



Section of Oak spangle, enlarged. 

 Fig. 143. 



Section of Button Gall, 

 enlarged 



TnfU of hair from the same, 

 more highly magnified. 



shape of the apparatus with which the femalee 

 deposit their eggs. When properly prepared, it 

 forms a beautiful object for the microscope. It 

 consists of two saws, the teeth of which are again 

 serrated. These saws work alternately, and are 



