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[October, 



marginal and cell nerves black ; cells and a triangular patch next the anterior 

 margin, extending from below the former to the apex, almost black. Sternum 

 reddish-brown. Prosternum xyphus fuscous, margins pale yellowish. Meso' 

 sternum somewhat fuscous in the centre. Legs ferruginous. Thighs, 1st 

 pair with two longitudinal rows of brown spots on the inside ; 2nd same as the 

 Ist, with the addition of a row along the upper-side ; 3rd slightly flattened on 

 the sides, with two rows of brown spots on the inside, one down the middle on 

 the outside, and one along the upper-side. Tihice, apex fuscous, with stoutish, 

 somewhat spinose black hairs. Tarsi fuscous-brown, 1st joint fuscous. Claws 

 brown. 



Abdomen, underneath yellow, last genital segment brown. 



9 . The characters are precisely as in the other sex, except that the yellow 

 markings are here replaced by deep carmine red, and the margins of the ab- 

 dominal segments at the base black. Elytra as long as the abdomen. 



There are only a ^ and $ in the collection taken on the plains of 

 Jordan by sweeping low plants in April. 



(To he concluded in our next.) 



A LIST OF GALL-BEARING BRITISH PLANTS. 

 BY H. W. KIDD* A2iD ALBERT MULLEE.f 



Hoping in the course of a few months to commence a descriptive 

 list of galls, we beg your insertion of the following Catalogue of Plants. 

 The majority of them we know possess galls in Great Britain from 

 personal observation. Those marked with a note of admiration (!) are 

 plants said on reliable authority to possess galls ; while those marked 

 with a note of interrogation (?) require inspection, either from the 

 fact of their possessing galls on the continent, or upon which grow 

 excrescences of doubtful origin, or having been hinted at as probably 

 possessing galls. 



Plants, not indigenous, possessing galls in this country, are 

 ceded by an asterisk. 



pre- 



Eanunculus bulbosus, Linn. 

 Papaver dubium, L. 



rhaeas, L. 

 Barbarea vulgaris, Br. 

 Brassica oleracea, L. 



rapa, L. 

 Sinapis arvensis, L. 

 Reseda lutea, L. 

 Viola odorata, L. 

 canina, L. 



L. 



Silene nutans, 

 Althiea rosea. 

 Tilia intermedia, D. C. 



graudifolia, Ehrh. 

 Acer campestre, L. 



pseudo-platanus, L. 

 jEscuIus hippocastanum. 

 Geranium sanguineum, L. 

 Ehamnus catharticiis, L. 

 Sarothamnus scoparius, Koch. 



* Godalming, Surrey. 



t 1, Camden Villas, Penge, 8.E. 



