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long ovipositors, some what resembling the Ichneumon 

 manifestator in miniature." * 



The early entomologists of this, as well as of 

 other countries, were greatly puzzled to account for 

 the generation of these minute parasites. Joannes 

 Goedarti, in allusion to the Microgaster glomoratus, 

 and another species, speaks of them as being " won- 

 derful things, nay, scarcely credible or before heard 

 of; " and, in reference to the second, he says, " These 

 things I have myself found by experience, and 

 observed not without astonishment ; because it seems 

 beside, nay, contrary to, the usual course of Nature, 

 that, from one and the same animal, an offspring of a 

 different species should be generated ; and that one 

 and the same creature should procreate in three 

 different ways, which yet is manifestly the case with 

 these caterpillars, from what I have briefly related. "-}- 

 Goedartus alludes to the two species of Ichneumon 

 and the Cabbage Butterfly, being all produced, as he 

 supposed, from the pupae of these insects. 



* LOUDON'S Magazine of Nat. Hist. v. p. 106. For an 

 interesting account of these parasite insects, see Insect Trans- 

 formations, p. 55, 58. 



f GEODARTII, Metamorphosis Exper. xl. f . 



