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Contributions to the classification of the Chalciditcs, by Haliday (Trans. 

 Eut. Soc. Loud, iii, p. 295), contain, first, the institution of a peculiar group, 

 the Pireniani, with 5-jointed feet, simple legs, 10-jointed antennae ; in- 

 serted at the mouth ; the metacarpus of the wing extremely short, almost 

 wanting ; included in this group are three genera : Calypso (1 species), with 

 4-jointed palpi, and remote eyes ; Macroylenes (3 species), with 4-jointed 

 palpi, and, in the $ approximated eyes ; and Pirene (4 species), with 

 2-jointed palpi. Then follows the group of the Eulophini, thus arranged : 

 I. Tarsi, 4-jointed. Antennae, 7-11-jointed. (A) The subcostal nerve, 

 inflected to the costa with a gentle curve. (1) Elasmm, Westw. (2) 

 Epiclerm, Hal., Ant. 11 art. ; mesothoracis parapsides discrete, scutellurn 

 integrum, transverse impressum; abdomen petiolatum; metacarpus pro- 

 ductus, radius brevis. (Entedon Papri/as, Walk.) (3) Eiiplectrus Westw. 

 (4) Elacliestus, Spin. (5) Lopliocomns, Hal.; Aut. 10 art., uodosse, verti- 

 cillatfE ; ? 9 art., ulna mediocris, radius lougus (Cirrospil. Anaitis, Walk.) 

 (6) Eulophus, Geoffr. (7) Cirrospilus, Westw. 



(B) The subcostal nerve suddenly thickened, and as it were broken, 

 inflected obliquely to the costa : (8) Tetrastichus, Hal; Aut. $ 9 art., 

 ? 8 art. ; mesothoracis parapsides discretse, postice incisae; scutelluni con- 

 vexuni, liueis 4 elougatis parallelis exsculptuni ; abdomen subsessile ; radius 

 ab alae apice quam longissime remotus; metacarpus evauescens. (Cirrosp. 

 Attains, Walk.). (9) Euderus, Hal.; Ant. ? 9 art., capitulo 3 art. rnesothor. 

 paraps. discretae, postice acute incisae; scutell. integrum; metacarp. pro- 

 ductus ; radius brevissiuius ; alee subglabrae ; abdomen subsessile. (Ent. 

 Amphis, Walk.). (10) Entedon, Dalm. (E. Amamis, Walk.). (11) Pterop- 

 (,-i.r, Westw. II. Tarsi, 3-jointed. Trichogramma, Westw. Besides these, 

 other new genera are described : Acjamerion (Miscogaster Gelo, Walk.), and 

 Oplielimm (Euloph. Ursidius, Sabella, Cirrosp. Fannius, Walk.) ; three species 

 of Lelaps (vid. supr.); and, lastly, a new Eulophus. 



Loew has given most interesting notices respecting the Caprification of the 

 Fig. (Entom. Zeit. s. 06.) His observations were made at Leros. Natural 

 caprificatiou in the cultivated Eig-trees does not take place at all, or in but 

 very few individuals ; to these consequently are suspended caprificd Eigs, col- 

 lected from the wild Eig-trees, and which are known by the patulous opening 

 of the fruit. This is clone in June, when the naturally caprified Eigs con- 

 tain the insect, already in a state of complete development. The author is of 

 opinion, and probably very correctly, that in the natural course of development 

 the insect remains within the fruit till September, but that in consequence 

 of the desiccation of the wild Fig, after it is plucked, its egress and propaga- 

 tion are hastened, and thus a caprificatiou of the cultivated Eigs is cft'ected 

 artificially. The insect was Blastophaga ffrossontm, Grav., which Westwood, 

 according to the Liuiiacau Collection, had taken to be Cy/ups Sycomori, Lin. ; 



