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or all of them to the kindnesB of friends, none of whom . however, sent a specimen of 
he willow fit for identification. I shall therefore be much obliged to anyone who can 
,end me any of the galls I have briefly described below, accompanied by a specimen 
,f the willow from which the gall was obtained ; and I may add that I shall be much 
.bhged if any other willow galls, sent to myself or to Mr. Miiller, be similarly 
tccompan^ed. ^^^^ ^^ ^^_^^ ^ ^_^^ ^^^^ attention was found in Hare Wood, about 
,even miles from Leeds. It is the form and size of a pea-yellow, with brown 
spots Tne leaf of the willow is lanceolate, and finely serrate towards the tip. 
The secy.nd is a flattish, bag-like gall, orbicular or lobed. The willow is a very 
smalLleaved species, and is probably very closely allied to Sali. repens I also 
wi,v, to know the species of the willow upon which the Cambridge rose gall occurs, 
^nch Mr. Bond exhibited at the Meeting of the Entomological Society in March, 
4e leaves of which are broadly lanceolate, serrate, and white beneath. I have 
received a leaf which I imagine to be that of Salix dnerea, bearing a large reniform 
gall on its underside, from Cornwall, and I beheve 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 m England.- 
HtNRY Waring Kidd, Godalming, May 7th, 1869. 
Note on JEtorMnus hilineatus, Fallen.-Yevj few collectors of British Hemiptera 
have I fancy, met with this little bug, so that a few notes on its distribution here 
xnay be interesting. The first record, and probably the only one, of its capture m 
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 Kev. T. A. 
Marshall in Leicestershire. When at Rannoch, in 1867, 1 collected a few Eem.ptera, 
and among them four or five specimens of the ^torUnus, which I did not recognise 
at the time, nor until Mr. Douglas, in looking over my specimens, named it for 
xne Moreover I did not know the exact spot where I had taken it. My visit to 
Ross-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 
(Povulus tremula) here andthere along the hill-sides, and almost every one of these 
groves appeared to be dedicated to morhinus hilineatus. 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 Hemiptensts 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 
"^"^"s^ome other rare bugs occurred at Achilty. Among them were Sigara minu- 
tissima and Hydrometra odontogaster, &c. 
As I am collecting materials for a Ust of Scottish Hemiptera-Hete^-optera,! 
would be greatly obliged for any (even the shortest) notices of the bugs of any 
