330 | Mr. Newport on the Natural History 
THE STREPSIPTERA *. 
The whole of the Strepsiptera yet discovered, like Meloé and most of its aff- 
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 Angliz, vol. i. tab. 14. fig. 11. p. 257; vol. ii. p. 112, 1802. (Stylops 
Melitte.) ; 
Kirby.—Sowerby’s British Miscellany, No. ix. pl. 45. fig. 94. 
Jurine.—Mem. Acad. Turin, tom. xxiii., Observ. sur Xenos vesparum, 1805 ? (X. Rossii, Jur.) 
Peck.—Kirby's Monog. of Strepsiptera, Linn. Trans. vol. xi. Sept. 1809-11. (Xenos.) 
Klug.—Magazin der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, p. 266, 1810. (Supposed 
parasites of Stylops.) (Strepsiptera.) 
Kirby.—Monograph of Strepsiptera, Linn. Trans. vol. xi. 1811-15. (Xenos Peckii.) 
Latreille.—In Cuvier's Règne 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 Haworthii? MS.) 
Curtis.—British Entomology, folio 385, Dec. 1831. (Elenchus Walkeri.) 
Dale.—Curtis’s British Entomology, folio 433, Dec. 1832. (Halictophagus Curtisii.) 
Jurine.— Isis, taf. xiii. 1832. 
G. R. Gray.—Griffith’s Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. vol. xv. (Ins. vol. ii. pl. 59. p. 633, 1832.) (Stylops 
Childreni.) 
Stephens.—Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. i. pt. 3 (Proceed. p. Ixv.), Aug. 1835. (Elenchus (Stylops) tenui- 
cornis.) 
Van Heyden.—Congress of Germ. Naturalists, Bonn, Sept. 1835, vivá voce. (Supposed acari (larve) - 
of Xenos.) 
Van Heyden.—Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (Proceed. p. Ixxiii.), Oct. 1835, vol. i. part 3. (4d.) 
Pickering.—Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. i. part 3. p. 163, Jan. 1835-1836. (Stylops Spencii.) 
Dufour.— Annales des Sci. Nat. tome vii. p. 19, Jan. 1837. (Xenos sphecidarum.) 
Newport.—Art. Insecra, in Cyclop. Anat. and Physiol. pt. xvii. vol. ii. 1838. 
Westwood.—Observations on Strepsiptera, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. i. part 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 Beiträge 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.) 
CH & 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. 
