of Apocrypta and Stjcoj'haga, §'c. 315 



wlicrcin he believed tliey undergo tlieir metamoipliosis.* 

 Hasselquist, also, in his " Iter Pala?stinum" (edited by 

 Linneeus in 1757), says of his Ci/nips Ficus, "germina 

 excavata ab illo reperi, et in quovis fere germine unum 

 reconditum." The like habit applies to Sijcophaga, as 

 shown by some of the specimens now exhibited, where 

 several are seen emerging from the seeds of the syca- 

 more fig. 



The Ci/nips Caric<2 of Hasselqnist, found in the same 

 figs with his C. Ficus, was considered by him as possibly 

 the other sex of the latter (an prajcedens ex altero sexu ? 

 An diversa species? Iter, p. 425); although he minutely 

 describes the nviduct of each ; the comparative length of 

 Avhich (given in the C. Caricce. only) is stated to be " cor- 

 pore duplo longior." These were subsequently united by 

 LinnjBus in his lOtli edition of the " Systema Naturfe" 

 (1758), Avherein he refers to Hasselquist's Nos. Ill and 

 112, under the name of Cynips Psenes. 



Hasselquist's specimens were obtained near Smyrna, 

 from the "Ficus Caricre orienfalis'^ (Linn. loc. cit.) ; but 

 those of Gravenhorst, all females, were derived from the 

 Ficus Carica3 of the Tyrol ; and, in describing his Blasfo- 

 plim/a grossorum, $ , from that locality, he expresses his 

 inability to pronounce an opinion as to its generic identity 

 with the aforesaid, having never seen Hasselquist's speci- 

 mens, nor found a sufficiently accurate description thei'eof. 



Professor Westwood has since shown (loc. cit.) that 

 the Cynips Sycomori, 2 , of Egypt (ticketed as such 

 in the Linn^an cabinet with Hasselquist's JSo. 113 by 

 Linnfeus himself), is a true Blasto])haga. But in the 

 B. grossorum the oviduct is described as "longitudiiic 

 dimidiffi aut tertiffi partis abdominis," and in B. Sycomori 

 as "abdominis dimidii fere longitudine ;" that of Cynips 

 Caricce, Hasselq., being, as aforesaid, twice the length of 

 the body : his C. Ficus is stated to be entirely red (corpus 

 totum rufum), all the examjjles of C. Psenes in the Lin- 

 njean cabinet being rufescent, with an elongate oviduct; 

 whereas, in the European species, the females, as de- 

 scribed by Gravenhorst, and as exemplified in specimens 

 from Montpellier, received from M. Jules Lichtenstein, 

 are glossy-black (nigroa?nius, Gr.). Thus, the B. gros- 



* " Disquisitio de Cynipe Psene Auctorum, et Descriptio DlastophagcB 

 novi Ilymenopterorum generis." Beitrdge zur Entvmologic ; Breslau; 

 Part 1. 'L82i). 



