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domicil they have taken possession, in the manner of the Ichneumons. 
Certain species are apterous. One species deposits its ova in the 
pollen of the earliest of the wild Fig-trees. The modern Greeks, in 
pursuance of a method transmitted to them from antiquity, pierce 
several of these figs, and place them on their late bearing trees of the 
same genus; the Cynips soon leave their old dwelling and come out 
loaded with the fecundating dust, insinuate themselves into the eye 
of the fruit borne by the latter, fecundate its seeds, and accelerate the 
period of its maturity. This operation is termed caprification. 
Ipauia, Lat. I/lig.—Sacaris, Panz.—Bancuvs, Fab., 
Where the abdomen is strongly compressed in all its height, and is 
formed like the blade of a knife; the antenne are filiform. The 
radial cell is long and narrow; the two branchials are very distinct, 
and completely or entirely closed, and the two first cubitals are very 
small *, 
Fiaires, Lat. Jur., t 
Where the abdomen is ovoid, thickened and rounded superiorly, 
or simply compressed and trenchant beneath ; and where the antenne 
are granular and gradually enlarge. There is but one complete 
brachial cell, the radial is very distant from the extremity of the 
wing, and the second cubital is wanting f. 
Cynips, Lin.—Dipvoeris, Geo ff., 
Or Cynips proper, where the abdomen is similar, but the antenne 
are filiform and not granular. There is also but one complete cell at 
the base of the superior wings; there are three cubitals, the first of 
which is proportionally larger than in the Ibaliz ; the radial is 
equally elongated. 
C. galle tinctoria; Diplolepis galle tinctoria, Oliv., Voy. en 
Turq. Very pale fulvous; covered with a silky and whitish 
down, with a blackish-brown and glossy spot on the abdomen. 
In the round, hard, and tuberculous gall found on a species of 
Oak in the Levant, which is employedincommerce. By break- 
ing this gall we may frequently obtain the perfect insect. 
C. quercus pendunculi, L.; Reaum., Insect., IIT, xl, 1—6. 
Grey, with a linear cross on the wings. It pierces the blossoms 
of the male flowers of the Oak, producing round tumours which 
resemble little bunches of fruit. 
C. rose, L.; Reaum., Insect., III, xlvi. 5—8; and xlvii, 1—4, 
Black; legs and abdomen, the extremity of the latter excepted, 
red f. 
* Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., 1V, p. 17. The maxillary palpi, according to my 
former observations on this genus, have but five joints, whilst those of the Figites 
and Cynips have but four. 
+ Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV. p. 19, and Jurine. 
} For the other species, see Linnzeus; Oliv., Encye. Méthod., article Diplolépe; 
Lat., Hist. Gen. des Crust. et des Insect., XIII., p. 206, and Gen. Crust. et Insect., 
IV. p. 18; Jurine and Panzer on the Hymenoptera. 
Dr. Virey has published some new observations on the galls produced by these 
Insects, from a MS, memoir of the late M. Olivier, 
