HYMENOPTERA. 
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ihe agamic reproduction of certain Cynipidm^ and, ignoring the important 
papers of Walsh and Reinhard, says that he has not the slightest evi- 
dence ” that his statement on the subject ^Hias ever elicited oven the most 
cursory investigation.” The latter observation, however, may be literally 
correct. 
Goureau indicates the occurrence of galls upon the prostrate branches of 
Astragalus glyciphylloSf containing larvse which may bo those either of a 
Cynips or an Apion. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tome vi. p. 171. 
Giraud (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tome vi. pp. 197-200) publishes some 
remarks on the natural history of the Cynipidce of the oak. He describes 
the characters of the galls produced by Cxjnips corticalis (Hart.), corticis 
(Linn.), and rhizomee (Hart.), indicates that galls may be classified in ac- 
cordance with the season at which their growth takes place, states that the 
Cynipidm hatched from galls in his breeding-cages would not deposit their 
eggs in fresh branches of the trees on which they are parasitic, although, in 
accordance with his observation that oviposition takes place very soon after 
exclusion, they discharged their eggs in small masses, and remarks upon the 
causes of the formation of galls and distribution of the same excrescences 
upon different species of trees. See also remarks by Laboulbene and Giraud, 
7. c. Bull. 1866, p. xxxvi. 
Manderstjernia, g. n., Radochkolfsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix. 1. p. 304. 
Allied to Cynips \ antennae (5) 14-jointed; abdomen large, much com- 
pressed, segment 1 larger than 2-4, 6 as large as 1, semicircular, bearing two 
upright rods above at its junction with the other segments [? the sheaths of 
the ovipositor, which is very long and passes quite round the periphery of the 
semicircular plate formed by the 6th segment]. Sp. M. paradoxa, sp. n., 
Radochk. 1. c. p. 306, pi. 9. fig. 4 (with details), on the trunk of an old oak 
near St. Petersburg. 
UROCERIDiE. 
Taschenberg (Hymen. Deutschl.) admits four genera of this 
family, which he unites with the Tenthredinidse ; the genera 
are CephuSj OryssuSj Xiphydria, and SireXj the latter including 
Xyloterus (Hart.). 
Cephas compressus. On the habits of this species, see F. Low, Verb, 
zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien. xvi. p. 953. — It is figured by Damianitsch, Verb, 
zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xiv. pi. 21. fig. 3. 
Cephas hrachypterus^ sp. n., Damianitsch, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, 
xvi. p. 993, pi. 21. figs. 1 & 6, Corfu j and C. erherij sp. n.. Dam. 1. c. p. 994, 
pi. 21. fig. 2, Syra. 
Tenthredinid.®. 
_The classification of this family adopted by Taschenberg 
(Hym. Deutschl.) is manifestly founded upon that of Hartig, 
and includes most of the suhgeneraof the latter raised to generic 
rank. Exclusive of the Uroceridee, which are placed in this 
family by Taschenberg, the number of genera admitted is 20, 
namely : — 
1. Cimhex (subg. Cimhex and Abia) j 2. Blasticotoma ; 3. Ilylotoma \ 
4. Schizocera) 5. Athalia\ 6. Allantus) 7. Macrophya (subg. Macrophya, 
