172 ORDER V. Cynip*? 



manner under the galls of plants, caufed by the 

 infertion of the eggs by the females. 



The genus termed by the fame author Eulo- 

 lophus^ of which he only defcribes one fpecies, 

 feems, by his account of the larva, to be a Lin- 

 nasan Cynips, with branched or pectinated an- 

 tennae -, the fling, however, is extended from the 

 extremity of the abdomen, and not from under 

 that part. Linnseus has placed it in the laft fa- 

 mily of his Ichneumons, Vid. Linn. Syfi. Nat. 

 fag. 941, Icb. 1, No. yj. 



Schaeffer, who has not feparated Linnasus's 

 Cynipedes, obferves that their thorax is convex, 

 and their wings extended, without folds, and 

 that their tarfi have five articulations. 



The gall made ufe of in the compofition of 

 ink, is formed by an infect belonging to this 



genus. 



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