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perir la larve du cinips: peut-etre aussi ces deux insectes etant armes 
de semblables aiguillons, peuvent-ils Fun & Fautre deposer leurs oeufs 
sur les feuilles du chene & occasionner des galles semblables. 
Translation : A dark colored Diplolepis from a globular, naked, and 
hard gall on the leaves of the oak. [References.] This insect is en- 
tirely brown and rather shining. Its antennae are as long as its body. 
It is large, with a body that is compacted as with others of the genus. 
Its wings are transparent, more than twice the length of the body [cor- 
rected to “less than twice the length” in 1799 edit.], having a brown 
spot on each anterior margin. The wings are ordinarily carried flat, 
one on top of the other, on the insect’s body. 
The insect originates in galls that are rounded, hard, and shining 
and occurring on the under surfaces of the leaves of the oak. These 
same galls produce a Cynips \i.e. a parasite!] which we have already 
considered. It is still to be determined whether it is the Cynips or the 
Diplolepis that is the rightful inhabitant of the gall; and that is not 
easy to determine; for it may be that the Cynips, in laying its eggs, 
gives rise to the gall, and that the Diplolepis then lays its eggs in the 
developing gall and thus causes the death of the larva of the Cynips; 
or it may be that the two insects have similar ovipositors which allows 
either one to produce this sort of gall when it oviposits on the leaves 
of the oak. 
Of scutellaris. Olivier, 1791, Enc. Meth. 6: 282. Diplolepis scutel- 
laris. 
Diplolepis niger, scutello rufescente, alis puncto nigro. 
II a environ deux lignes & demie de long. Les antennes & le corps 
sont legerement velus & d’un brun noir. L’abdomen est noir & luisant. 
L’ecusson est rougeatre. Les ailes sont un peu plus longues que l’ab- 
domen; les nervures sont noires sur la partie exterieure, & forment, 
par leur reunion, une petite tache noire au milieu de l’aile. 
La galle que produit cet insecte, vient sur le revers des feuilles du 
Chene, & ressemble parfaitement au fruit de l’Arbousier: est rougeatre, 
globuleuse, & entierement couverte de petites tuberosites. 
II se trouve a Manosque, ou il a ete observe par M. Danthoine. 
Translation. A black Diplolepis with a reddish scutellum, each 
wing with a black spot. The insect is about 5 mm. long. The antennae 
and the body are finely pubescent and brownish black. The abdomen 
is shining black. The scutellum is reddish. The wings extend a little 
beyond the abdomen; the wing veins are dark toward the anterior 
margin, forming by their fusion a small, dark spot [areolet] in the 
middle of the wing. The gall which gives this insect occurs on the 
undersides of the leaves of the oak, closely resembling the fruit of the 
strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). It is red, globose, and well covered 
with small tuberosities. It occurs at Manosque where it has been ob- 
served by D’Anthoine. 
TYPES. — Not designated for either folii, quercus, or scutellaris, 
and probably not in existence. The Linnean material of folii possibly 
from Sweden, possibly from more Central Europe; the Geoffroy mate- 
