FORMS OF MANTLE-GALLS. 



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and Wayfaring Tree {Viburnum Lantana) ciliated, whilst in the inflated galls of 

 the Elm caused by the white woolly leaf-louse (Sohizoneura lanuginosa), it is 

 covered with fine hairs like velvet. The capitate galls on the foliage of Maples, 

 Alders, and Limes, of the Guelder-rose and Strawberry, are scattered abundantly 

 over the whole lamina; in the Sloe they stand out chiefly from the margin of the 

 leaf, and in Elms they occur singly or in groups on its central portions. The size of 

 these galls depends upon their distribution. Those which rise in hundreds from the 



Fig. 361.— Galls. 



1-* Solid galls on a Bose-Ieaf ; i of JRhodites JRosce, ^ of RhodiUs Eglanterice, s of Rhodites spiTiosissiTnce. * Wrinkled galls on 

 an Elm-leaf (Ulmus campestris) produced by Schizmieura Ulmi. ^ Purse galls on the same leaf, produced by Tetraneura 

 Ukni. 6 Covering gall on the same leaf, produced by Tetraneura alba. 7 Solid galls on the leaf of the Purple Willow 

 {Salix purpurea), produced by Nematus gallarum. 8 Solid galls on the leaves of the same Willow, produced by Nematus 

 vesicator, 



same lamina have a diameter of 1-3 mm., while those which occur singly or in 

 small groups, often attain a diameter of 2-3 cm. 



Contrasting with these embossed or pocket-galls axe the covering galls, forming 

 a third type of mantle-gall. In these, as in the embossed forms, the insects pro- 

 ducing the galls live in their cavities, but the course of development is quite 

 diiferent in the two cases. The tissue round the place where an animal has settled 

 or where an egg has been fastened to the epidermis in this type begins to grow, 

 rising up in the form of a fleshy mound or wall which continues to grow until the 

 animal is wholly roofed in. The cavity in this case does not arise from an excava- 

 tion (as in the embossed or "pocket" type), but from an overarching of the tissue. The 



