THE 



TKANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



FOR THE YEAR 1883. 



I. Descriptions of three new genera and species of fig 

 insects allied to Blastophaga /row Calcutta, Australia, 

 and Madagascar ; with notes on their parasites and 

 on the affinities of the respective races. By Sir Sidney 

 S. Saunders, C.M.G. 



[Read September 6th, 1882.] 



Plates I. — III. 



Some time back Mr. Wood-Mason, on his return to India 

 from this country, forwarded to me a small bottle con- 

 taining about a dozen diminutive figs of Ficus Indica, 

 which he had gathered in the Botanical Gardens at 

 Calcutta on the 15th of May, accompanied by a glass 

 tube wherein he had also plunged numerous minute 

 insects which he had found in some of the same figs. 

 Many of these figs, as he observed, had a large hole at 

 the apex, made, as he conceived, by an obese grub, 

 whereof specimens were also sent, one of these being 

 found "in almost every receptacle." Such apertures, 

 however, are usually effected by the inmates as the 

 ordinary means of egress ; and the presence of these 



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