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moth, whose ravages have been mentioned in an earlier 
part of the volume. On further dissecting the gall, no 
less than twelve other cocoons were found, all buried 
so deeply in the hairs and among the woody cells that 
they could not be seen until the hairy clothing was 
removed. A person who was entirely ignorant of ento- 
mology might naturally fancy that the moths were the 
architects of the gall from which they had apparently 
issued. How they obtained access to the galls, and on 
what food they lived, are two problems that I can by no 
means solve. The drawer in which the galls were placed 
is tightly closed, and all bee, wasp, and hornet combs 
have been so treated with corrosive sublimate, that they 
have not been touched by the caterpillars from which 
the moths had been developed. 
There is another gall, very common in England, 
which is found upon the oak, and which is generally 
thought, by persons who are unacquainted with botany 
or entomology, to be the bud which naturally grows 
upon the tree. 
In these curious galls, the excrescences with which 
they are covered take the form of leaves instead of hairs, 
as is the case with the bedeguar and many other galls. 
These bud-like objects may be found on the young 
twigs, and may be easily recognised by their shape, 
which somewhat resembles that of a pine-apple, and the 
curious manner in which their leafy covering lies regularly 
over them, like the tiles upon an ornamental roof. The 
size of the gall is rather variable, but it is, on an average, 
about as large as an ordinary hazel-nut. 
The gall is so wonderfully bud-like that I have known 
the two objects to be confounded—the immature acorns 
in their cups to be carried off as galls, while the real 
