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thorax, transversely orbiculatc, closely punctured. The thorax narrower than 
the elytra, longer ihan broad, rather narrowed behitid ; with straight sides, the 
anterior angles almost acute, the posterior rounded, and a polished medial longi- 
tudinal lino. The elytra shorter than the thorax, and, with the soutellum, 
exceedingly closely punctured. The abdomen thickly and delicately punctured. 
The legs pitchy-black, with the tarsi and the tips of the tibiso rather testaceous. 
Hab. Peterhead, Northern Scotland. 
No comparison of either of these species with any other of those previously 
known in their respective genera is made by M. Reiche ; and, seeing how closely 
the Patrobi known to us are allied, I confess I do not imagine any one is very 
likely to find M. Reiche's first description of much avail. The species stands in De 
Marseul's Cat. between excavatus and assimilis (clavipes Thoms.) In the same 
Cat. the Ocijpusia located between inorio and compressus. — E. C. Rye, 7, Park Field, 
Putney, S.W., February, 1S68. 
Notes on the gall of Spvrcea, ulmaria. — Dui'ing the months of summer, the 
leaves of Spiraea ulmaria (common Meadow Sweet), are often thickly beset with 
a minute gall. On the upper-side of the leaf it is hemispherical, nearly smooth, 
pinkish in hue, and about the size of half a miistard seed. Under the leaf they 
are quite diiFerent, being prodnced into a short snout-like cone. This is very 
pubescent, and its apex is slightly dilated, as in the gall of the cornel leaf. On 
opening the gall with care, and inspecting it with a lens, a minute urn-shaped case 
exactly the form of a cone shell may be seen. Its texture is papery ; its colour 
yellowish-piuk. The larva within this case is of an orange colour when the gall is 
in an advanced stage. The sharp point of the base of the cases often, if not always, 
projects from the dilated end of the snout-like development mentioned above. 
The larvsB sometimes quit their galls, but whether this is usual, or only takes place 
when the galls are gathered, I do not know. In 1865 I obtained galls on July 25th. 
The first gnats emerged on August 29th. Galls obtained on August 1st, 1866, 
produced gnats on the 10th, 13th, and 16th of the same month. About this date 
the galls disappeared, but on October 13th I obtained a good supply. These I take 
to be a second brood of gnats. The body of this lively little Cecidomyia is a light 
reddish hue, nearly approaching that of the leaf stalk of the Meadow Sweet. — 
H. W. KiDD, Godalming, February, 1868. 
*^* These little galls are the work of Cecidomyia ulmariw, Bremi. Vide Bremi, 
" Beitriige zu einer Monographie der Gallmiicken" (1847), p. 52, 9; Winnertz, 
" Beitr-ag zu einer Monographie der Gallmiicken," in the Linnasa Entomologica 
1853, p. 240, 27 ; &c. — R.McLachlan. ^ 
The larva of Stathmopoda pedella at Stettin. — On a dry part of the fortifications 
at Stettin there is a plantation of grey alders (Alnus incana), a species of tree 
which, as far as I know, does not grow wild there. At the end of last September 
I sought here, in company with Dr. Schleich, for the larvaa of Stathmopoda pedella, 
in the alder berries. We soon ascertained that the brown or black spots which 
were distinctly visible in the gathered berries, were caused by the larva which 
