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for all of them to the kindness of friends, none of whom , however, sent a specimen of 

 the willow fit for identification. I shall therefore be mnch obliged to anyone who can 

 send me any of the galls I have briefly described below, accompanied by a specimen 

 of the willow from which the gall was obtained ; and I may add that I shall be much 

 obliged if any other willow galls, sent to myself or to Mr. Miiller, be similarly 

 accompanied. 



The first gall to which I will draw attention was found in Hare Wood, about 

 seven miles from Leeds. It is the form and size of a pea — yellow, with brown 

 spots. The leaf of the willow is lanceolate, and finely serrate towards the tip. 

 The second is a flattish, bag-like gall, orbicular or lobed. The willow is a very 

 small leaved species, and is probably very closely allied to Salix repens. I also 

 wish to know the species of the willow upon which the Cambridge rose gall occurs, 

 which Mr. Bond exhibited at the Meeting of the Entomological Society in March, 

 the leaves of which are broadly lanceolate, serrate, and white beneath. I have 

 received a leaf which I imagine to be that of Salix cinerea, bearing a large reniform 

 gall on its underside, from Cornwall, and I believe also from the North. In con- 

 elusion I may add, that I am much in want of the gall Andricus noduli, which Mr. 

 Marshall (vol. iv, p. 102) states, on the authority of Hartig, is the young shoot of 

 the oak, distorted, and loaded with excrescences, said to be common in England. — 

 HtNRY Waking Kidd, Godalming, May 7th, 1869. 



Note on Mtorliinus bilineatus, Fallen. — Very few collectors of British Hemiptera 

 have, I fancy, met with this little bug, so that a few notes on its distribution here 

 may be interesting. The first record, and probably the only one, of its capture in 

 Britain, is in vol ii, p. 246, of this Magazine, where, after describing the species, 

 Mr. Douglas mentions that three specimens had been taken by the Eev. T. A. 

 Marshall in Leicestershire. When at Rannoch, in 1867, 1 collected a few Hemiptera, 

 and among them four or five specimens of the Mtorhinus, which I did not recognise 

 at the time, nor until Mr. Douglas, in looking over my specimens, named it for 

 me. Moreover I did not know the exact spot where I had taken it. My visit to 

 Boss-shire not only revealed the metropolis of the species, but gave me a hint as 

 to the locality at Rannoch. At Achilty there are numerous small groves of aspens 

 (Populus tremula) here and there along the hill-sides, and almost every one of these 

 groves appeared to be dedicated to JEtorhinus bilineatus. Now at Rannoch the 

 aspen is not a common tree, and I only remember one off which I got any bugs, 

 and these I have no doubt were this species. For the benefit of Hemipterists who 

 may visit Rannoch I will give precise directions. About three miles from Kinloch 

 on the road to Dall, the first cultivated field (bounded by a wall) appears, lying 

 between the road and loch. On the left side of the road is a small wood ; near a 

 very small barn that runs through the wood and crosses the road, stand the aspens. 

 At Achilty the bug was very common, but the male was much rarer than the 

 female, in the proportion of about 1 in 10. They were most abundant at the end 

 of July. 



Some other rare bugs occurred at Achilty. Among them were Sigara minu- 

 tissima and Hydrometra odontogaster, &c. 



As I am collecting materials for a list of Scottish Hemiptera-Heteroptera, I 

 would be greatly obliged for any (even the shortest) notices of the bugs of any 



