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VIII. Notes upon some remarkable parasitic insects from 
North Queensland. By F. P. Dopp, F.ES.; with 
an Appendix containing descriptions of New 
Species, by COLONEL CHARLES T. BINGHAM, 
F.Z.8., and Dr. BENNO WANDOLLECK. ' 
[Read March 7th, 1906.] 
HYMENOPTERA PARASITICA. 
(THE material upon which the following interesting observ- 
ations have been made has been kindly placed in my 
hands by the author, with the desire that I should make 
it available for the use of naturalists. Inasmuch as it 
mainly bears upon those bionomic questions which are so 
much studied at Oxford, the great majority of the 
specimens have been placed in the Hope Department ; but 
wherever possible, co-types of the new species have been 
deposited in the British Museum of Natural History. The 
type of the interesting Cyrtid fly, Ogcodes doddt, has been 
added to Dr. Wandolleck’s famous collection of this group 
at Dresden. 
Mr. Dodd is to be congratulated upon these carefully- 
recorded observations throwing so much new light upon 
many of the North Australian Hymenoptera Parasitica. 
The hosts of the extraordinary Chalcid genus Schizaspidea 
have been hitherto unknown; we here find that S. doddz is 
parasitic upon ants. In other cases, such as the Chalcidid 
genus Rhipipallus and the Cyrtid fly, the general group to 
which the host belongs is already known, but Mr. Dodd 
furnishes us with exact data of the utmost value and interest. 
Many observations here recorded show a remarkable and 
long-persistent vitality in larve attacked by Braconid 
parasites. It is probable that in hot latitudes, where a 
dead insect would quickly dry up and in other ways 
deteriorate as food, the attacks of parasites have been 
specially adapted to prolong the victim’s life to its very 
utmost. The adaptation of course always exists, but here 
we probably see it at its highest level. 
It is unnecessary to specify any localities, inasmuch as 
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