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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Mexico: (Trigonura) P. crassicauda, l.c. p. 377, pi. 10. fig. 1,. Mexico : 
(Allocera) a. hicolor, 1. c. p. 379, Algeria : (Phasg. smicrip.) P. varie- 
gata, 1. c. p. 381, Brazil. 
Conura. The amended characters of this genus given hy Bichel (Z. c. 
p. 386) are indicated in the above table ; his former error arose from his not 
perceiving the separation between the first and second segments of the abdo- 
men, and thus supposing that the fifth segment formed part of the caudal 
prolongation of the abdomen. The known species referred to this genus by 
Sichel are Conura Jlavicans (Spin.), C. hicolor (Brull(5), Chalcis imnctata 
(Fab.), and Smicra annulipes (Spin.). 
Conura scutellarisj sp. n., Sichel, 1. c. p. 388, and C. dimidiata, sp. n., Sich* 
1. c, p. 390, Mexico. 
Laesthia Utigiosa, sp. n., Kondani, Arch. Canestr. iv. p. 101, pi. 7. figs. 7, 8, 
parasitic in Cecidomyia frumentaria in Italy. 
PllOCTOTRUPIDAJ. 
A list of species of this family found in Russia, principally in Courland, is 
furnished by Kawall, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxviii. pt. 2. pp. 372-377. 
( Isostasius punctiger (Fdrst.) is described and figured by B. Wagner (Stett. 
ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 178, taf. 3. figs. 23-26), as also Leptacis tipulce (Kirby) (/. c, 
p. 180, taf. 3. figs. 26, 27), as parasites upon the Wheat-midges (DZpZosZs triticij 
Kirby, and D. aurantiacaj B. Wagn.). 
F. Low notices the parasitism of Diapria picipes (Gray.) upon a species of 
Stratiomys. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. p. 952. 
Epimeces canestnnii) sp. n.,Rondani, Arch. Canestr. iv. p. 191, pi. 7. figs. 1-3, 
parasitic on Cecid. frumentaria y in Italy. 
Platygaster' generaliiy sp. n., Rondani, I, c. p. 191, pi. 7. figs. 4-6, parasitic on 
Cecid. frumentariaj in Italy. 
Cynipid^. 
The German genera and species of this family are analyzed at 
considerable length by Taschenberg (Hym. Deutschl. pp. 121- 
144) 
The author admits 24 gener% of which he gives the synonymy, namely : — 
1. Ibalia'y 2. Sarothrus (JA. 2 i.iA.)^Amphithectes (Hart.) = Afe/am-ps, pars (Gi- 
raud); 3. Amhlynotus (Hart.) j 4. ^gilips (Hal.)=Xya/aspZs (Hart.) j 5. 
Anacharis (JdaXm.) ^ Megapelmus (Hart.); 6. Figites = Psilogaster 
(Hart.) ; 7. Onychia (Hal.) = Callaspidia (Hart.) and Xyalaspis, pars. (Hart.) ; 
8. Omqlaspis (Gir.) ; 9. Aspicera (Dahlb.) = Onychia (Dahlb., Gir.) ; 10. Fu- 
co«7a(Westw.) = Cothonaspis (Hart.); 11. Allotria (Westw.)==ATysZMs (Hart.); 
12. Synergits (Hart.); 13. 4wZa.r (Hart.) ; 14. Ceroptres (Hart.); 15. 
Diastrophm (Hart.); 10. Synophrus (Hart.); 17. Phodites (Hart.); 18. 
Trigonaspis (Hart.) ; 19. Spathegaster (Hart) ; 20. Biorhiza (Westw.) ; 21. 
Ter'as (Hart.) ; 22. Neuroterus (Hart.) ; 23. Andricus (Hart.) ; and 24. Cy- 
nips (Linn.). 
A list of Russian species of this family is given by Kawall, Bull. Soc. Nat. 
Mosc. xxxviii. pt. 2. pp. 377-380. 
Newman publishes (Entomologist, iii. pp. 169-173) a semipopular essay 
on galls, recommending the study of these excrescences, and of the insects 
which produce them. He seems to imply that he was the first discoverer of 
