LETTER XI.

FLJeI4 TO CONST4NCZ. Shrubbery,

DEAR SIST,

TI-lE further I advance in the study of Entomology, the more I am charmed with the variety of form., embellishments, habits, and contrivances, bestowed upon the different tribes of insects, of which the fifth order, Ih-i I'N OPT ERA, will furnish several examples. Remember, that its cl1a!cteristicts are, four wings, generally membranaceous; tail of the female armed with a sting.

The insects of the first genus, Cjnips, or Gall4ly, are concealed in the little, smooth, round, hard galls, found under the oak leaves, and those of other trees, generally fastened to the fibres. Those of the c.ucrcus folii, have a single one iii each gall. These galls are of a woody substance, formed like the nest, by the exuding of the sap of the leaf, occasioned by the puncture of the female, when she deposits her eggs..

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