12 Mr. J. O. Westwood on the Chalcididee. 



miscalled parasitic Cynipes were raised to the rank of genera, amongst 

 which was adopted that of Pteromalus of Swederus, restricted, however, 

 to the Pter. Gallarum and its congeners; the name of Cynips being also 

 generically restricted to the splendid species with an elongated and ex- 

 serted ovipositor in the females, (C. Bedeguaris, &c.) 



In the Insecta Liguriee, Spinola has entirely adopted the nomenclature 

 of Fabricius, dividing, however, the parasitic Diplolepes of that author 

 into divers sections and subsections; but in the 17th volume of the 

 " Annales du Museum," in his " Essai d'une nouvelle Classification des 

 Diplolepaires," after stating the priority of the establishment by Linnseus 

 of the genus Cynips, the erroneous nomenclature of Geoffroy, the correct 

 reference by Fabricius of the Gall Fhes to the generic name of Cynips, 

 and his conviction that Fabricius ought to have given a new name to the 

 parasitic insects which he had miscalled Diplolepis, as above mentioned, 

 he adds, that he himself would not attempt the innovation, but suggested 

 that the parasitic family named by him Diplolepariae (answering to the 

 Cynipsera of Latreille) might with propriety be altered to Chalcidites, 

 more especially as Jurine had placed all the insects of the family in the 

 genus Chalcis, and had restricted the genus Cynips to the true Gall Flies. 

 In the same paper Spinola also suggested that the generic name Cynips, as 

 above restricted by Latreille in the Genera Crustaceorum &c., ought con- 

 sequently to be set aside, proposing in its stead that of Callimone. 



In the Swedish Transactions for 1820, Dalman, who does not appear 

 to have been acquainted with the above Essai by Spinola, or the alterations- 

 adopted by Latreille in the Regne Animal stated below, has published 

 an excellent paper on the Chalcididae, to which (following his country- 

 man Swederus) he gives the family name of Pteromalini ; but as Fabricius 

 had proposed the genus Chalcis previously to the proposal of Pteromalus 

 by Swederus, the family name ought to be founded upon the former generic 

 name, more especially since the true Chalcides appear to be the typical 

 species of the family. In this paper, the species having females with an 

 elongated exserted ovipositor (Cynips of Latreille, Gen. Crust., Callimone 

 of Spinola) are formed into the genus Torymus ; Latreille himself, how- 

 ever, convinced of the impropriety of terming them Cynips, had previ- 

 ously, in the . Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., given them the new name of 

 Misocampus, but both these names must fall, since they are subsequent 



