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BRITISH GALLS 
Homop- 
tera 
Diptera 
Cole- 
optera 
Lepidop- 
tera 
Diptera 
Homop- 
tera 
Extremity of a shoot deformed, consisting of 8 to 16 
rounded, brown, confluent, pea-like masses. 
Adelges taxi Buckton 15 
Buckton, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 327. Houard, 
No. 152. 
Bud swollen, sometimes 8 mm. in diameter, remaining 
nearly or completely closed, tinted with yellow or red¬ 
dish brown. Attacked parts become fleshy and covered 
with minute granules or warts. (Plate XXI. 9.) 
Eriophyes psilaspis Nalepa 16 
Syn. Phytoptus taxi Murray. 
Connold, Veg. Galls, pi. 60; Plant Galls, fig. 329. 
Houard, No. 153. 
Pinus sylvestris Linn. 17. Scotch Pine. 
Needles stunted, thickened in the middle, edges oc¬ 
cluded, forming a cigar-shaped gall, the interior contain¬ 
ing a velvety whitish larva with a black head. M. G. 
Brachonyx pineti Payk. 17 
Houard, No. 77. 
Resinous swelling in the bark of a branch, with a gallery 
containing a greenish-yellow larva with a brown head. 
Laspeyresia cosmophorana Tr. 18 
Syn. Coccyx cosmophorana Entom. Syn. List. Asthenia 
cosmophorana Barrett. 
Meyrick, Handbook Brit. Lep., p. 513. 
Larva in a gallery beneath the bark of the branches, 
causing a lump of resinous exudation. 
Dioryctria splendidella H. S. 19 
Syn. Doryctria sylvestrella Rag. 
Meyrick, Handbook Brit. Lep., p. 369. 
A globular mass of resin about the size of a small walnut 
at the apex of a twig, in which the larva pupates. Larva 
deep yellow with light brown head. Normal leaves grow 
through the gall, and stunted ones above it. (Plate VII. 8.) 
Rhyacionia resinella Linn. 20 
Syn. Retinia resinella Linn., Evetria resinella Linn. 
Connold, Veg. Galls, pi. 37 ; Plant Galls, fig. 243. 
Houard, No. 75. 
Leaves short, thickened, and discoloured; a reddish 
larva concealed in the sheath. 
Thecodiplosis brachyntera Schwaegr. 21 
Syn. Diplosis pini De Geer (?) 
Connold, Plant Galls, p. 245. 
“ On the terminal shoots of this tree {Pinus sylvestris ), 
in the form of a small cone, much like the fruit of the tree 
in miniature, but with this difference, that the fruit 
