104 INSECTA. 
exit of the Insect. Several Insects of the following family are also 
sometimes found in it, but this has been by destroying the natural 
inhabitants, of whose 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 accele- 
rate the period of its maturity. This operation is termed caprifi- 
cation. 
Inaria, Lat. Illig.-—Sagaris, Panz.—Banchus, Fab. 
Where the abdomen is strongly compressed in all its height, and 
is formed like the blade of a knife; the antennze 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(1). 
Ficires, Lat. Jur. 
Where the abdomen is ovoid, thickened and rounded superiorly, 
or simply compressed and trenchant beneath; and where the antennz 
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(2). 
Cynies, Lin. —Diplolepis, Geoff. 
Or Cynips proper, where the abdomen is similar, but the antennez 
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 Ibalizs the radial is 
equally elongated. 
C. gall tinctoriz; Diplolepis galle tinctoriz, Oliv., Voy. en 
(1) 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. 
(2) Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV, p. 19, and Jurine. 
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