566 The Zoologist — January, 1867. 



shoots, elongate and curved, but they vary much in form and size; one which T found 

 was nearly a foot in length. It was only In this kind of gall that 1 found the larvae of 

 the S. Guerinii, generally in the smaller specimens. The larva makes a firm case of 

 grains of excrement, which is attached to the inside of the gall ; generally there is an 

 opening made, through which the perfect insect may escape, yet I found some galls in 

 which this was not the case, and in which the moth would only come out in the 

 interior of the gall. I imagine that the Aphides are the originators of the galls, in 

 which subsequently the moths lay their eggs ; but on what do the larva; feed ?" Ten 

 days later Dr. Staudinger had been able to add some further details : — " The Aphides 

 originate the galls, then the moths deposit their eggs on them: the larva feed on the 

 inner walls of the galls : the larvae of Stalhmopoda Guerinii sometimes leave the open 

 galls and creep to some distance to undergo their change to the pupa stale; but more 

 frequently they remain in the galls. The pupa; stick sometimes half out of the galls, 

 and then retreat back again ; they do this especially when there has been heavy rain, 

 and the water has peuetratad the galls." A beautifully coloured drawing, by Miss 

 Wing, of the gall and larva was also exhibited. 



Mr. Stainton also stated that he had lately received from Herr Hofmann, of 

 Ratisbon, a larva in the berries of the alder, which was presumed to be that of Stath- 

 mopoda pedella; of this he exhibited a figure, and remarked that it was with the 

 greatest difficulty that this larva could be got out of the alder-berries alive, for it was 

 often in a burrow close to the central core, and owing to the hardness of the berry it 

 was almost impossible to avoid the destruction of the larva. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a collection of Tineiua from Syria and Asia Minor, which 

 Herr Lederer, of Vienna, had liberally sent over to enable him to work out the 

 collection of insects made by Mr. Pickard-Cambridge in Palestine. Several of these 

 were of extreme beauty, and some belonged to genera not known to occur in Europe. 

 Mr. Stainton remarked that iu addition to a specimen of the species which Zeller had 

 described in 1847 as Dasyeera imitatrix, from its extreme similarity to Dasycera 

 Oliviella, there were two specimens from Amasia which seemed intermediate between 

 D. imitatrix and D. Oliviella ; and that when species came so extremely close 

 together it was important to examine a long series, in order to ascertain the extent and 

 limits of variation in each. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited some galls found in July, at Deal, on the shoots of the 

 elm, and which when fresh were of an apple-green colour, with the side exposed to the 

 sun of a rosy hue, so that they had a perfectly fruit-like appearance : they were of con- 

 siderable size, hollow, and contained numbers of Aphides, probably a couple of hundred 

 in a single gall. He had sent specimens to Mr. Armistead, who believed the gall to 

 be undescribed. 



Mr. M'Lachlan found the same gall in the summer near Kingston-on-Thames, not 

 on the Ulmus campestris, but on what he believed was known as the Dutch cork elm ; 

 they contained Aphides, and were full of water. 



The a President remembered to have seen very similar galls near Naples, he 

 believed on elm. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited two females of a Coccus, the case or covering of which 

 resembled a small shell, and might well be mistaken for a Patella; they were from 

 Port Lincoln, South Australia, and were said to have been found "on the under side 

 of Eucalyptus leaves." 



