6 [June, 
the section was founded) has 7 joints(erroneously stated 6), whereas 
Mesovelia has only 4 true joints ; consequently, the characters of 
Hebeina must be amended in this particular to "4 or 7-jointed." 
Mulsaut and Eey appear to have mistaken the basal portion of 
the curious scutellum for a posterior process of the pronotum (which 
it certainly is not), but any one, without microscopic examination, might 
be deceived by the anomalous structure. In their description of the 
elytra, they say the nerves and their ramifications form 5 cells, bnt in 
these they evidently include the claviis, which they do not distinguish 
from the corium by name. 
Fieber is the only other author that has noticed the insect, and he 
does not appear to have seen it, for he only quotes the description of 
Mulsant and Eey ; but, although he puts it next to Velia in his Family 
Hydroess^, he says, with his usual sagacity that it " belongs, perhaps, 
more rightly to HEBEiDiE," which is, undoubtedly, a right conclusion. 
(To he continued.) 
ON SOME BEITISH CYNIPIDJE. 
BY THE EEY. T. A. MARSHALL, MA. 
A. First segment of the abdomen longer than the rest. 
Cynipides, Hartig. 
I. Radial cell much longer than its greatest width ; 2nd cubital 
cell (areolet) nearer to the costa than to the centre of the 
wing, 
a. Joints of the antennae unequal, the 7 — 8 apical joints 
shorter and broader. 
a. Scutellum hemispherical. 
i. Thorax villose. Maxillary palpi 5-, labial 3-articulate. 
Gen. Cynips, Hartig. 
Gynips folii, Lin. 
Black ; covered with greyish hairs, except on the abdomen, which 
is shining and like ebony. Orbits of the eyes, sides of the thorax, and 
the scutellum, often reddish. Legs, especially the joints, varied with 
reddish. Wings hyaline, with pitchy nervures, the areolet externally, 
and the base of the radial, incrassated, blackish. 5 . 
Long. 2 ; alar. exp. G lin. 
C. folii, Hart., in Germ. Zeits., 2, p. 187 ; Curt., in Gardener's 
Chronicle, 1845, p. 208, fig. (with gall). 
