CATALOGUE OF BRITISH PLANT-GALLS 233 
Pedicularis sylvatica Linn. 112. Red Rattle. 
Acari Leaf margin incurved, tinted with red, covered on the 
inferior surface with a felt of simple, more or less filiform 
hairs intermingled with some star-like hairs. 
Phyllocoptes pedicularis Nal. 735 
Trail, 1885. Houard, No. 5133. 
Rhinanthus Crista-galli Linn. 112. Common Yellow 
Rattle. 
Fungi Elongated blackish gouty swellings on the basal part 
of the stem, or on the root, appearing in autumn. 
Ephelina radicalis Massee 736 
Syn. Ephelis rhinanthi Phil. 
Massee, Brit. Fung. Flora, iv., p. 75. 
Homop- 
tera 
PLANTAGINACEAE 
Plantago major Linn. 112. Greater Plantain. 
Leaf margins crinkled and folded. Aphis bright green, 
body pilose and slightly tufted with bristles. 
Aphis myosotidis Koch 737 
Houard, No. 5163. 
Plantago media Linn. 82. Hoary Plantain. 
Coleop- Elongated swelling on the floral axis, with a cavity con- 
tera taining a blackish larva. (Plate VI. 2.) 
Mecinus PYRASTER Herbst. 738 
Mosley, Brit. Galls, Nat. Journ., March, 1898, p. 56. 
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Plantago lanceolata Linn. 112. Ribwort Plantain. 
On the floral axis, rarely on the petiole. An elongated 
swelling about 8 mm. long, containing a blackish 
larva. M. G. 
Mecinus pyraster Herbst. 739 
Connold, Plant Galls, p. 197. Houard, No. 5151. 
Lopidop- 
tera 
Flower spike swollen and bent, often branching, con¬ 
taining about six larvae, which pupate therein. May to 
June. 
Tortrix paleana Herb. 740 
Connold, Plant Galls, fig. 244. 
Nematoda Stem swollen and distorted. 
Tylenchus devastatrix Kuhn 741 
Bd. Agric. Leaflet, No. 46. 
