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and Mr. Hope some specimens of Essex sea-weeds. It was announced 
that an Entomological Cabinet of thirty drawers had been purchased 
for the Museum. 
The following were elected members of the ClubMessrs. C. M. 
Bayfield, G. Biddell, Frank Evershed, F.I.C., D. Radford Sharpe, F.M.S., 
F. H. Spiller, and A. Godfrey Wells. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Francis Darwin, returning the 
thanks of Mrs. Darwin and family for the vote of sympathy and con¬ 
dolence upon the death of the late Charles Darwin passed by the Club 
on April 29th last. 
Mr. English exhibited specimens of a supposed gall which he had 
found about the middle of September in the seed-pods of the Common 
Broom ( Cytisus scoparius) growing in Epping Forest. The normally 
black ripe pods presented a somewhat remarkable appearance, inasmuch 
as they were partly coloured—some half black and half green, and 
some wholly green. On examination he found that the green portions 
of the pods enclosed what he took to be an elongated gall, each con¬ 
taining a larva. In some cases the perfect insect had emerged, leaving 
part of the pupa-case protruding. [Judging from an examination of 
the dried specimens exhibited by Mr. English, we are disposed to think 
that they are really galls, caused by the larva of one of the Cecidomyida, 
Aspliondylia sarothamni, Lw. In a paper on “ The Asphondylice of the 
Glasgow district” (Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, vol. iii., p. Ill), Mr. 
F. G. Binnie describes three forms of this gall as occurring on the 
Common Broom, viz., two axillary, and one on the pod. He thus 
refers to the galled pod:—“The part affected becomes inflated, is oval 
or round in shape, circular in transverse section, and projecting equally 
on both sides of the pod. It is thin-walled, forming an internal cavity 
which contains a single larva, and the galled portion retains its green 
colour aftei the rest of the pod has become black. The perfect insect 
emerges by a hole in the side. The gall is found during the summer, 
and the present species (A. sarothamni, Lw.) has been bred from it by 
Mr. Traill. I have only seen it in one locality, near Milngavie, and 
have failed to find it elsewhere.” Some of the largest species of the 
Family Cecidomyid* are, according to Mr. Binnie, found in the genus 
Aspliondylia, and the pup* are provided with two projecting tooth-like 
processes at the anterior end, to assist them in forcing their way 
through the tissues of the enclosing galls when about to assume the 
perfect state. All this accords well with Mr. English’s observations. 
One of the axillary galls of A. sarothamni, “ usually crowded together 
on the apical portions of the twigs,” is mentioned in Mr. Fitch’s “ Galls 
of Essex” (Trans., vol. ii., 123), but the galled pod of the Broom does 
not appear in his list. —Ed.] 
Mr. W. Cole said that while on the subject of galls he might mention 
one which Mr. A. Lockyer and himself had found early in June in the 
Forest, during the explorations at the Loughton Camp. Young leaves 
