330 Mr. Newport on the Natural History 



The Strepsiptera *. 

 The whole of the Strepsiptera yet discovered, like Meloe and most of its affi- 

 nities, are parasitic on the Hymenoptera. They are all of diminutive size. One 



* Bibliography of Strepsiptera. 



Rossi. — Fauna Etrusca, Mantissa, Append, p. 114. (Xenos vesparum.) 



Kirby. — Monographia Apum Angliae, vol. i. tab. 14. fig. 11. p. 257 ; vol. ii. p. 112, 1802. {Stylops 



Melittte.) 

 Kirby. — Sowerby's British Miscellany, No. ix. pi. 45. fig. 94. 



Jurine. — Mem. Acad. Turin, torn, xxiii., Observ. sur Xenos vesparum, 1805 ? (X. Rossii, Jur.) 

 Peck. — Kirby's Monog. oi Strepsiptera, Linn. Trans, vol.xi. Sept. 1809-11. (Xenos.) 

 King. — Magazin der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, p. 266, 1810. (Supposed 



parasites of Stylops.) (Strepsiptera.) 

 Kirby. — Monograph oi Strepsiptera, Linn. Trans, vol. xi. 1811-15. (Xenos Peckii.) 

 Latreille. — In Cuvier's Rfegne Animal. (Rhipiptera.) 

 Kirby. — Linn. Trans, vol. xi. p. 233, Feb. 16, 1813. (Stylops tenuicornis.) 

 Leach. — Zoological Miscellany, vol. iii. 1814? (Stylops Kirbii.) 

 Curtis.— British Entomology, folio 226, Aug. 1828. (Stylops Dalii.) 



Stephens. — Nomenclature of British Insects, p. 37 (MS. name), 1829. (Stylops Hatoorthii} MS.) 

 Curtis. — British Entomology, folio 385, Dec. 1831. (Elenchus Walkeri.) 

 Dale. — Curtis's British Entomology, foUo 433, Dec. 1832. (Halictophagus Curtisii.) 

 Jurine. — Isis, taf . xiii. 1832. 

 G.R. Gray.— Griffith's Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. vol. xv. (Ins. vol. ii. pi. 59. p. 633, 1832.) (Stylops 



Childreni.) 

 Stephens.— Tiajia. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. i. pt. 3 (Proceed, p. Ixv.), Aug. 1835. (Elenchus (Stylops) tenui- 

 cornis.) 



Van Heyden.—Congveta of Germ. Naturalists, Bonn, Sept. 1835, vivdvoce. (Supposed acari (larvs) 

 of Xenos.) 



Van Heyden.— Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (Proceed, p. Ixxiii.), Oct. 1835, vol. i. part 3. (Id.) 

 Pickering. — Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol.i. part 3. p. 163, Jan. 1835-1836. (Stylops Spencii.) 



Du/our. — Annales des Sci. Nat. tome vii. p. 19, Jan. 1837. (Xenos sphecidarum.) 



Newport. — Art. Insecta, in Cyclop. Anat. and Physiol, pt. xvii. vol. ii. 1838. 



Westwood. — Observations on Strepsiptera, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. i. paTt 3. p. 169, 1835-1836. 



Westwood. — Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol.i. part 3, 1835-1836. (Elenchus Templetonii.) 



Westwood. — Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. ii. p. 3, 1836-39. (Supposed parasites of Stylops.) 



Siebold. — Ueber Xenos sphecidarum und dessen Schmarotzer, in Beitriige zur Naturgeschichte der 

 Wirbellosen Thiere. Danzig (September), 1839. (Xenos sphecidarum, supposed parasites, larva, 

 pupa, imago.) 



Westwood. — Introduction, part xiv. p. 302, Nov. 1839. (Supposed parasites of Stylops.) 



Guerin S( Percheron. — Insectes. (Rhipiptera.) 



Thwaites. — Notes on Stylops, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. iii. pt. 1. p. 67. (Proceedings, June 1838-41.) 



Thwaites, — In Westwood's Introduction, p. 300. part xiv., Nov. 1839. 



