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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
CYN1PID.E. 
Marshall (Ent. M. Mag, iv^.) cliaracterizes the following genera of this 
family, and describes their British species : — Biorhiza (Westw.), p. 171 j 
Ithoditis (Hart.), p. 172 j Diaatrophiis (Hart.), p. 223 ; Spatheyaster (Hart.), 
p. 224 j Trigonaspis (Hart.), p. 271; and Aulax (Hart.), p. 273. He re- 
marks that the generic name Ter as was preoccupied in Lepidoptera, and 
suggests the substitution of Diplolepis for Teras (Hart.), p. 171. 
Giraud (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, pp. li-lv) hotices the galls of the 
following species : — Cynips callidoma (Gir.) on the oak; C. majalis, sp. n., 
on which Synergiis facialis (Hart.) is parasitic ; Spathegaster tricolor (Hart.) 
on the oak; S. Jlosculi (Gir.) on the oak; and Andricus injlator (Hart.), 
chiefly on Quercus pedunculata. 
Giraud notices the gall of Cynips fecundatrix (Hart.). He has obtained 
from this gall a new species of Aidax and a new Cecidomyia. Bull. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 1868, pp. cix-cxii. Also as parasites Meyastigmus dorsalis (Fab.), Calli- 
mome inconstans (Walk.), Decatoma quercieola (Forst.). 
Lucas notices some galls on a branch of Ilymencea courharily from French 
Guyana. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, pp. xxxiii, xxxiv. 
Lees records that pheasants will feed on the “button-galls” of the oak- 
leaf produced by Neurohius reaumurii. Entomologist, iv. p. 28. 
Aulax fevundatru', sp. ii., Giraud, Bull. Soc. Ent, Fr. 1868, p. cxi, from 
the artichoke-gall of Cynips fecundatrix. 
IJROCERIDiE. 
L. VON Heyden describes the male of Xyloterus fuscicornis (Fab.), and 
notices the synonymy of the species and the authors who have referred to it. 
He proposes to name the genus Xyloccematium^ Xyloterus having been em- 
ployed by Erichson for a genus of Coleoptera one year before Hartig applied 
it to the above-mentioned species. The genus includes the following 
species : — X. 'magus (Fab.), fuscicornis (Fab.), and columba (Fab.) ^penn~ 
sylvanica (He G.). (Berl. ent. ^eitschr. 1868, pp. 227-230.) 
Xiphydria camelus. Frauenfeld (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. 
p. 886) describes the larva of this species, which was foimd to have de- 
stroyed a young birch tree, 
Urocerus areolatus, sp. n., Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 375, New 
Mexico. 
Sii'ex varipes^ sp. n., Walker, Lord’s Naturalist in Vancouver’s Island &c. 
ii. p. 842, Vancouver’s Island. 
TENTIIREDINIDiE. 
Boisduval (Ent. Hortic. pp. 389-425) indicates the general natural his- 
tory of the insects of this group, and refers especially to the habits of those 
species which are injurious in gardens, several of which are figm-ed by hiiiF 
with their larvm. 
C. Healy publishes (Entomologist, iv. pp. 138-141) life-histories of BkyU 
lotoma melanopyga and P. tormentillce. Also of P. microcephala (Klug), 1. c. 
pp, 170-178. 
Nematus ventricosus. On the importation of this species into the United 
States and its natural history, see Walsh (Pract. Entom. i. pp. 117-125), 
