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OBSERVATIONS. 
Hymenoptera. 
Galls on u Voxel nium Vitis Idaia ." — 
Can any of your readers throw light 
on the tenants of the abovementioned 
galls ? This Vaccinium grows very 
stuntily on many of the mountain 
summits of the lake district. I met 
with it on Skidaw, Bowfell, and 
Scawfell, &c. It was on Green Gable, 
however, that I noticed the plant 
producing these galls. The galls 
are deep red; they usually occupy 
the whole leaf, little being left, in- 
deed, of the leaf but the peduncle 
that supported it. In the centre of 
the gall, feeding on its juices, is a 
small, dull, smoke-coloured larva, pit- 
ted over with dots, as is so often the 
case with hymenopterons larvce. 
Judging from analogy, I imagine 
that the metamorphosis must be 
subterranean. — Shall be much 
obliged to anyone who can assist 
me in developing the life-history of 
the insect. The plant was growing 
nearly 2800 feet above the sea 
level. — Peter Inchbald, ' Storthes, 
Hall, Huddersfield, August 31, 1863. 
Lepidoptera. 
Larentia JDidymata . — As I notice 
that the occurrence of a “ very pale 
variety ” of this little species is 
mentioned in to-day’s “ Entomolo- 
gist,” I may inform you that, at 
Harrogate, during the early' part 
of August, I found the very pale 
form occurring quite as commonly 
as the ordinary typical one. — W. A. 
Lewis, Harrow, N.W., Sept- 19. 
Paraponyx Stratiotalis. — I had 
more applications in answer to my 
notice (vol. 3, p. 24) than I expected. 
Some of the letters came from gen- 
tlemen who I had no idea would 
need it, and it is, therefore, not im- 
possible that some account of its 
habitat, &c., would be acceptable. 
The females ( which are larger 
than the males, and have the mark- 
ings less distinct) often deposit ova 
on the setting’ board. The eggs are 
of a bright yellow color, firmly at- 
tached together, of an oval shape, 
and considerably flattened. They 
have never hatched, and, as they 
uniformly dry up, I am led to sup- 
pose that, unless they are placed 
