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been bred from the common oak-spangle gall of N. lenticn- 

 laris ; and Kaltenbacb says it has been bred from Orchestes 

 Quercus, by Herr Reissig. We meet with great confusion in 

 trying to work out the records of parasitism in Chalcididae ; 

 the species themselves are perplexing, and the synonymy 

 more so; e.g. Ratzeburg, in 'Die Ichneumonen,' under 

 Torymus caudatus, iVeev, arranges specimens he had received 

 from correspondents bred from galls of A. terminalis, Rh. 

 Eglanteriae (a rose species), and from galls of Nematus 

 viminalis (a willow species) ; whilst under T. admirabilis and 

 T. crinicaudis, besides the oak-gall specimens, he includes 

 specimens bred from Tortrix sirobilana, thus having three 

 specific names for one species, and in one species including 

 four certainly distinct. But to return to Kaltenbach's 

 assertion that this species is parasitic in Coleopterous larvaj, 

 which is interesting, we have the following quotation occur- 

 ring in Mayr's excellent and most lucid monograph: — 



" In Von Heyden's collection there is a female with the 

 statement, — 'From beetle-larva under oak-bark, Bostrichus ?' 

 — which was named C. admirabilis by Dr. Forster. It is 

 three millimetres long; oviduct, five millimetres long; blue, 

 with a slight green shade; abdomen for the most part violet; 

 legs green, with yellow tarsi ; mesothorax very finely punc- 

 tate, almost smooth and shining. Although undoubtedly 

 this specimen does not differ from the species bred from 

 A. terminalis galls, it may be found to belong to another 

 species, when the above-quoted economy shall be proved to 

 be correct." 



Apart from dwelling in galls various species of Torymidae 

 are known to be parasitic on Hymenoplera and Lepidoptera ; 

 but these are the only two instances, as far as I know, of its 

 connection with the Coleoptera; and here, as in many other 

 cases of parasitism, further observation would be satisfactory. 



Callimome abdominalis. Boh. — Cingulatus, Nees (Walker's 

 list) and Cyniphidum, Ratz., are synonyms. This species, 

 which occurs in many other oak-galls, may be bred in June 

 and July of the same year. 



Callimome rec/ius, Nees, = C. inconalans, Wlk. (Walker's 

 list) = leucopierus, Wlk. (Walker's list) = lo)i<jic(indis, Rtz. 



Callimome aiiraltis, Fonsc. = viridissimns, 13oh. (Walker's 

 list) = f parellinus, Wlk. non Boh. (Walker's list) = con- 



