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Ichneumonidas of Belgium (Tent amen enumeratiouis critical Ichueumonum 

 Belgii), which that learned body intend to publish. (Bull. Acad. Brux. ii, 

 61, 146.) 



[Ctelimus niger, Nees (Alysia id., Oliv., Al. olivieri, Guer.), is a common 

 parasite of Chlorops lineata and tscniopus. (Curtis, B,. Agr. Soc. Jouru. v. 

 496=) 



Curtis (ib. 499) has observed that Sigafyphw caudatus, Nees (ib. pi. L, 

 f. 39), is a parasite of Oscinis vastator (see below). He couples with this 

 the observation of Her pin, that an Ichneumon with a long borer deposits its 

 egg in that of the fly.] 



PROCTOTKUPII. De Bomand (Rev. Zool. 97) has given a synopsis of 

 the known species of the genus Pelecinus, ten in number. 



Ceraphron formiceti and inquilunts, Er. (Germ. Zeitschr. v, 265), are two 

 new species discovered by Markel in the nests of Formica rufa, parasites, 

 it is probable, of some of the Coleoptera that frequent them. 



[Ratzeburg (Ichneum. Forstins) has described two new species of 

 Ceraphron, C. tortricum, bred out of caterpillars of Tortrices, and C. ancylo- 

 neuras, out of the larvae of Syrphi, (both of these have been found in 

 England also) ; one of Platygaster, contorticornis, and five of Teleas, under 

 which name he comprehends the small parasites of insect eggs, to which 

 Ichn. ovulorum of Liuuseus (erroneously cited, by the writer of this notice, for 

 Polynema flavipes, Ent. Mag. i, 348) belongs. But as the type of Teleas 

 was T. clavicornis, Latr. (Prosacantha id., Nees), the name Telenomus is 

 to be preferred for the present group. (See Walker, But. Mag. i, 

 345.) 



CYNIPSERA. Curtis (Gard. Chron. 212) has represented a many-cham- 

 bered gall of the oak (Quercus pubesceus), which resembles the fruit of the 

 chesnut, and by the peasantry of Tuscany, where it is common, is supposed 

 to be the product of a hybrid impregnation by the latter. It is, in fact, 

 produced by the tynips luclda, Hart. (C. qitercus castanea, Curt. ibid. f. 3.) 

 The gall has been figured before by Malpighi. (PI. 15, fig. 52.)] 



PTEROMALINA. Ratzeburg (ibid.) has enumerated the species bred out of 

 wood insects, and has described a number of new species. The genera cha- 

 racterized as new are 1. Copidosoma, an Eucyrtus with the abdomen elon- 

 gated and compressed cultivate ; C. loucheanum, which he bred out of Tinea 

 (Hyponomeuta) euonymella, [is not, as Erichson in the text has inadver- 

 tently suggested, TLncyrtus (Cercolelus) jugaus, Walk. (Entomologist, pi. N, 

 f. 1), wliich has nine joints only in the feelers, and a depressed abdomen 

 with a very imperfectly formed ovipositor, but rather appeai-s related to the 

 group of Eupelmus.] 



2. Trichoceras (name abeady in use for a genus of Diptera), with four- 

 joiuted feet, and nine joints to the lash (flagellmn) of the feelers, the joints 



