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scribed in Blastophaga Sycomori, and is in no manner connected 
with the maxillae or labium, which parts are destitute of appen- 
dages, except a minute spur in the place of the maxillary palpi. 
The singular form of the antennae, and of the anterior and pos- 
terior legs, is also quite unlike that of any other insects with which 
I am acquainted. 
I am indebted to Dr. Klug for specimens of another curious 
insect, “ ex jicubus AUgypti,” which in several respects agrees with 
Blastophaga Sycomori, although in several of its more particular 
characters it cannot be associated therewith. I have therefore 
formed a new genus for its reception. The specimens are all 
females. 
Sycophaga. Genus novum. 
{ps.vx.oi , ficus , et edo .) 
Caput thoracis latitudine, postice latius, antice subattenuatum, 
fossula longitudinali dorsali. Antennae versus partem ante- 
riorem fossulae insertae, capite paulo longiores, 1 4-articulatae ; 
articulo lmo elongato maximo, subcylindrico ; 2do minori, 
duobus proximis minimis, annuliformibus ; articulis 6 proximis 
longitudine fere aequalibus, at gradatim crassioribus, ultimis 
4 clavam ovalem formantibus. Mandibulce magnae, acutae, ad 
apicem subfalcatae, subtriangulares, in medio externe emargi- 
natae et ciliatae, intus edentatae. Maxillae minutae, membra- 
naceae, lobo apicali angustiori, interne ciliato, spina minuta 
loco palporum. Mentum elongatum, basi attenuatum ; la- 
bium setis elongatis rigidis instructum, palpis biarticulatis. 
Oculi mediocres, laterales ; ocelli baud distincti. 
Thorax elongato-quadratus, collari magno antice attenuato. Aloe 
magnitudine mediocres, nervis ut in Blastophaga, at nervo 
deflexo fere recto. 
Pedes ut in Blastophagd. 
Abdomen depression, obovatum, versus basin angustius ; oviduc- 
tus trisetosus, setis aequalibus, abdomine duplo longioribus 
et valde incurvatis. 
Sycophaga crassipes. (Plate XX. Fig. 5.) 
Piceo-nigra, thorace depresso, aeneo submicqnti; pedibus magis 
subrufescentibus, femoribus supra obscurioribus, tarsis palli- 
dioribus; oviductu rufo, vaginis pallide luteis, apice nigris, 
pilosis ; antennis nigro-piceis. 
