Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 215. Gall Insect {Cynips Kollari). figure (fig. 215), magnified about 10 diameters. Wood recently forwarded to us for examinationspecimens of two insects reared from these galls,accompanied by the following note :— In Septem-ber, 1865,1 collected at Sydenham, near the Palace,about 150 of the galls that have of late been soplentiful on the oak. I put them in a glass-toppedbox, and in about a month from SO to 100 flies hadissued therefrom. These were all the ordinaryfemale
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 215. Gall Insect {Cynips Kollari). figure (fig. 215), magnified about 10 diameters. Wood recently forwarded to us for examinationspecimens of two insects reared from these galls,accompanied by the following note :— In Septem-ber, 1865,1 collected at Sydenham, near the Palace,about 150 of the galls that have of late been soplentiful on the oak. I put them in a glass-toppedbox, and in about a month from SO to 100 flies hadissued therefrom. These were all the ordinaryfemale insects. I took out the insects and theempty galls, and left the remainder until about the. Fig. 216. Gall Insect {Cynips sp.) middle of June of the present year, when I found afew more insects like those which had come outbefore, and also about a dozen others such as I hadnot seen before, which I at first took to be themales of the same species. They are smaller,dark brown, and regular little dandies. We submitted these latter insects to the most com-petent judge with whom we were in communication,and who has devoted considerable attention to thestudy of their allies. This gentleman states that heregrets his inability to name the Cynips (fig. 216),but that both the specimens are females, and thereare specimens of it in the British Museum. It issingular, he adds, that this species has not beenobserved before, as large numbers of the Devon-shire galls have been frequently kept for thepurpose of rearing the insects from them. Atpresent, therefore, we can give no further informa-tion about them. Dr. Xirchner states that Synergusfacialis, Hart., is a parasite of Cynips Kollari.,
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