1867.) 147 
antennfo, and a smaller and more linear abdomen. Ecspecting the 
hitherto unnoticed gall of this species Mr. Parfitt writes as follows : — 
" I see you mention in last Ent. Mag. that N.Jumipennis has not 
" been bred, or rather that its gall is not known : I am happy to say I 
" can supply that deficiency, as I bred several last year. The species is 
" bred from galls about the size of peas, attached to the under-side of 
'• oak leaves ; they are attached generally to the veinlets, and are hairy, 
" or covered with longish white filaments. The walls of the gall are 
"thin, green, with generally a rosy hue. The larva is very small for 
" the size of the gall, and the comparatively large interior ; so that the 
" creature rolls freely about when the leaf is shaken. The gall is of a 
" succulent character, similar to the currant-gall on the male flowers of 
"the oak, only the walls are not so thick. I gathered the galls 
" July 15th, and the insects came out soon afterwards." 
These galls are exceedingly common near London, where I have 
often taken them, but have failed in obtaining from them the imago. 
They have been reared by Mr. H. Waring Kidd, of Godalming, as well 
as by Mr. Parfitt ; for I find a bred specimen (cj) in a box belonging 
to the former gentleman, ticketed " Hairy pea-gall, oak leaf." 
Among Mr. Parfitt's insect is a specimen of 
Neuroterus Meaumurii, Hart. 
Black ; antennae shorter than in Malpigldl, with the second* joint 
and the base of the third testaceous. Legs testaceous ; coxa3, base of 
femora, and apex of hind tibiae, blackish. Wings hyaline, nervures 
dark brown, partly incrassated as in Malpigliii, but not suffused at the 
edges. All the nervures are distinctly visible, while in Malpiffhii they 
are very pale, almost decolorous, except the base of the radial cell, the 
outer side of the areolet, and the basal transverse vein (see p. 124). 
In other respects the species are very similar. $ . 
Long. 1 ; alar. exp. 3| lin. 
If. Reaumurii, Hart., in Grerm. Zeits., 3, p. 339. 
Stated by Mr. Parfitt to have been " bred from silky button-galls 
on oak leaves." Hartig (/. c.) says that " these very elegant little red 
galls, of which 30 — 40 are found upon a single leaf, exactly resemble 
small shirt buttons covered over with silk." 
h. Scutellum depressed. 
Genus Teeas, Hartig. 
Palpi as in Neuroterus. Body glabrous. Antennae ^ 15-, ? sub- 
* Or, according to the other way of reckoning, adopted by Hartig, the 3rd joint and the base of 
. the 1th. 
