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II. Further descriptions of insects infesting figs. 

 By J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



[Read October 4th, 1882.] 



Plates IV.— X. 



The insects described in the present communication 

 infest the fruit of Ficus Inclica in Hindostan, having 

 been found at Madras in the months of December, 1856, 

 -7, -8, and -9, by Sir Walter Elliott, who caused a series 

 of magnified figures of several of the species to be made 

 by his native artist, which drawings were placed in my 

 hands by the late Mr. Frederick Smith. The types of 

 these insects are now in. the British Museum, and 

 were described by Mr. F. Walker in his ' Notes on 

 Chalcidise.' Mr. J. Wood-Mason, at Calcutta, also 

 found a number of these parasites in the fruit of the 

 same species of Ficus, which he communicated to Sir 

 Sidney S. Saunders, who has placed most of them in my 

 hands for investigation and description, which I have 

 now the pleasure of presenting to the Entomological 

 Society by way of supplement to my two former memoirs 

 on fig-insects, and to those of Sir S. Saunders. 



A very unsatisfactory series of descriptions of other 

 fig-insects, by Mr. F. Walker, was published posthu- 

 mously in the ' Entomologist,' vol. viii., p. 15 ; 1875. 

 The paper is entitled "Descriptions of new Genera and 

 Species of Parasites belonging to the families Procto- 

 trupidce and Chalcididce, which attack insects destructive 

 to the fig in India," and contains descriptions of Pseudisa 

 (n. g., fam: Dryinoidcs ?) , P. smicroides ; Isanisa (n. g., 

 fam. Eurytomidce), I. decatomoides ; Agrianisa (n. g., 

 fam. Sycophagoidee), A. myrmecoides ; Micranisa, n. g. 

 (neither family nor species mentioned) ; Polanisa, n. g. 

 (allied to Idarnes), P. lutea ; Idarnes orientalis (with the 

 remark that "the only species hitherto described is a 

 native of the West Indies ") [I. Carme,] which shows 

 either that Mr. Walker wrote these descriptions before 

 1871, when he published the fourth part of his ' Notes 



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