A MONOGRAPH 



OP THE 



BBITTSH 



PHYTOPHAGOUS HYMENOPTERA. 



VOL. IV. 



CYNIPHXE. 



Tribe CYNIPINA. 



(The taxonomic characters of this tribe have been 

 detailed in vol. iii, p. 157.) 



The Egg. 



The egg is elongated, rounded at the top, becoming 

 gradually narrower until it terminates in a long pe- 

 duncle, which may be hardly longer than the egg itself, 

 or seven or eight times longer than it. This peduncle 

 is not peculiar to the eggs of the Cynipidas, it being 

 found to exist in certain groups of Ichneumonidse 

 (e. g. Tryphon) and Ghalcididse (e. g. Leucaspis) ; but in 

 the Oynipidae, according to Adler,* it differs in this 

 respect from the others, that with them the peduncle 

 is at the anterior, in Tryphon, &c, at the posterior 

 pole of the egg. The use of the peduncle is somewhat 



* Zeits. f. wissen. Zool., xxxv, 223. 

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