HYMENOPTEROUS INSECTS. 
GALL INSECT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth armed with jaws; no proboscis. 
Sting spiral, and mostly concealed within the body. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Cynips Quercus F olii. C. nigra, thorace lineato, pedibus griseis, 
femoribus subtus nigris. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 2650. 
Of a black colour ; thorax marked with 
lines; feet gray; thighs black be- 
neath. 
Gall Insect. . . . Reaum. Ins. 3. pi. 39. f. 14 — 17. Roes . 
Ins. 3. App. pi. 52, 53. Shaiv Gen . 
Zool. 6. 2 67 . pi. 88. 
Those excrescences found upon the oak-leaf, and 
which are commonly called gall-nuts, are the pro- 
duce of this insect. The female cynips prefers the 
oak before all other trees for the purpose, and in 
the month of July pierces the leaves, depositing an 
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