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stem-like portion about as long as the body of the gall, the whole 
appearing to be formed of a widened leaf or large stipule of the plant 
-with the edges meeting and grown together, forming an elongate cavity 
inside, the basal stem portion narrow and more or less cylindrical, gradu- 
.ally thickening at body which is swollen. Stem clothed with fine w hite 
wooly fibers on the outside, the body light greenish and not so thickly 
wooly. Several narrowed and elongate leaves of the plant are grown 
to the outside of the body, springing from the stem and running longitu- 
dinally to tip of gall. These apparently reveal the mode of formation 
of the gall, which is, if I am not mistaken, formed of a number of the 
elongate leaves of the plant grown together, the edge of one to the edge 
of the next. The stem portion is not hollow but solid. The larvæ live 
in the hollow body of the gall. 
Described from one specimen. The larva which was found within 
this gall shows no traces of thoracic or other legs, but possesses a large 
and distinct head with strong jaws. I infer that it is lepidopterous.— 
C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND. 
North American Locusts.—Mr. Lawrence Bruner publishes? 
a valuable paper on “ The More Destructive Locusts of America North 
of Mexico.” A considerable number of species are treated of, full 
“descriptions being given together with notes on preventive measures. 
Many new illustrations appear, four of which are reproduced on the 
accompanying plate, where a represents Acridium frontalis from 
Kansas; b. Dendrottettix longipennis, the “ Post-oak Locust” of Texas 
c. Melanoplus robustus also of Texas; and d, the large green Bush- 
locust (Acridium shoshone) which occurs in many of the Southwestern 
States. 
Entomological Notes.—The sixteenth of the admirable series of 
Reports of Observations of Injurious Insects by Miss Eleanor A. 
Ormerod of England has recently appeared. Its most distinctive 
feature in the way of illustrations consists of a number of plates, from 
photographs, of injuries to turnips and cabbages caused by eel-worms 
and slime fungi. 
Mr. H. F. Wickham is spending the summer collecting insects and 
other specimens in the region of the West Indies. He is with a party 
from the Iowa State Universi 
Dr. A. S. Packard has recently published: two important papers on 
Heterocera. One deals with “ The life-histories of certain moths of the 
2 U. S. Dept. Ag., Div. Ent. Bull., No. 28. 
