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colours. Of the first group there are two species", one of 

 them is peculiar to oak-apples, though its oviduct is not 

 longer than of some species of Callimome which divide 

 their attention between the oak-apple and a small kind of 

 gall; perhaps the "law of inheritance" is stronger in it. 

 The other species inhabits South Europe. I have seen it 

 emerge from galls, for which I was indebted very many 

 years ago to the kindness of the Rev. F. W. Hope. Five 

 other Hymenopterous insects also came forth from these 

 galls : a Cynips (the first possessor of them), Torymus 

 calcaratus, a Fcenus, an Osmia ?, and another aculeate 

 species; and thus there is much yet to learn in the natural 

 history of these galls. Glyphoujerus stigma represents 

 another genus of Torymidoe; it and a Porizon exercise a 

 limilatory control over Rhodites Rosae, the inhabitant of 

 the bedeguar, or pincushion-gall of the wild-rose. Two 

 other genera of Torymidae have no connection with galls : 

 one of them is Monodontoraonus, which, with Cirrospilus 

 Acasta, another Chalcid, lives at the expense of Antho- 

 phora, a genus of bees; the other is Podagrion, which, and 

 the eggs of Mantis, appear to have been created for each 

 other ; it may be coextensive with Mantis, and has been 

 observed in Australia, Asia, Africa, South Europe, and 

 North America. There are a few other genera of Torymidae, 

 which need not be mentioned, as their economy is unknown ; 

 but one of them, Metamorpha, may be noticed as exhibiting 

 transitional characters between Torymidae and Leucospidae, 

 and one species of the latter has been found in a gall. 



Life-hisiories of Sawjlies. Translated from the Dutch of 

 M. S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven, President of the 

 Entomological Society of the Netherlands. By J. W. 

 May, Esq. 



(Continued from p. 22.) 



Macrophya Albicincta, Schr. 



Imago. — Schrank, Enum. Insect. Austria, p. 329, No. 661. 



Geqfr. Ins. ii. p. 282, No. 23. King, Blaittv. in 



Magazin 8er Jahrg. p. 125, No. 94. Harlig, Blatt. 



u. Holzw. p. 295, No. 14. Lepeletier de St. Farg. 



Monogr. Tenth, p. 103, Nos. 290, 291. 

 Larva undescribed. 



