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HYMENOPTERA. 
Solms-Laubacii, H. [Graf zu]. Die Herkunffc, Domestication und 
Verbreitung des gewohnliclien Feigenbaums ( Ficus car lea, L.). Abh. 
Ges. Gotting. xxviii. 2, pp. 106. \_Cf. F. & H. Muller, Kosmos, xi. 
pp. 306-315, 342-348, and Biol. Centralbl. ii. pp. 193-197. 
Includes a full accouut of caprifioation as practised in various coun- 
tries, and remarks on the habits of Cynips psenes, L. (= Blastophaga 
grossorum , Grav.), and Cynips sycomori, Hasselq. (==. Sycophaga crassipes , 
Westw.). 
Westwood, J. O. Descriptions of the Insects infesting the seeds of 
Ficus sycoinorus and cariccc. Tr. E. Soc. 1882, pp. 47-60, pis. ii.-v. 
Delates almost entirely to the structure and transformations of Syco- 
phaga crassipes, Westw. (pp. 51-55, pis. ii. & iii.), and Blastophaga psenes, 
Linn. ( = sycomori, Linn. Mus., pt. ; Westw., and grossorum, Grav.), 
pp. 55-58, pis. iv. & v. The writer regards them as true Chalcidiclte, 
having some affinity to Callimome. 
• . On the supposed abnormal habits of certain species of Euryto- 
mides, a group of the Hymenopterous family Chalcididce. Tr.E. Soc. 
1882, pp. 307-328, pis. xiii. & xiv. Supplementary note, P. E. Soc. 
1882, pp. xxviii. & xxix. 
Includes an abstract of the observations of various authors, from 
Walker and Noes von Esenbeck to the prosout time, on tho habits of the 
Eurytomides , with special reference to Isosoma liordei, Harr., and other 
species reputed to attack corn. The paper also contains an account of 
one or two undetermined species of Isosoma observed by T. Whitmarsh, 
and details of Isosoma sp., and J. hordei, Harr., and descriptions and 
figures of 2 now species of Eurytomides , and a new Bracon. \Cf. also 
P. E. Soc. 1882, p. ix., where Fitch disputes the alleged phytophagous 
habits of Eurytoma hordei, &c.] 
Notes on economy of Chalcididce ; Fitch, Eut. xv. pp. 93 & 94. 
On the pupation of various Chalcididce ; Howard, Am. Nat. xvi. 
pp. 60-62 & 149-151. 
Large numbers of a small Chalcid bred from a larva of an Acidalia ; 
Milliere, Rev. d’Eut. i. p. 165. 
Smicra, Spin. Synopsis and synonymy of European species ; W. F. 
Kirby, Eut. xv. pp. 241-244, woodcut. 
Chalcis ( sispes ) biguttatu, Spin., noticed ; Costa, Atti Acc. Nap, ix. (6) 
p. 44. 
Eupristina masoni and Plistodontes imperialis , Saund., noticed ; 
Saunders, Ent. M. M. xix. pp. 163 & 164. 
Eurytoma , sp. noticed ; Gard. Chron. (2) xvi. [1881] p. 576. 
Copidosoma terebrator, Mayr, and flagellare, Dalm. Males described ; 
Wachtl, Wien. ent. Z. i. pp. 296-298. 
Eupelmus bifasciatus, Forst., $ described ; id. 1. c. p. 296. 
Antigaster mirabilis, Walsh. The ovipositor is not exserted ; French, 
Canad. Ent. xiv. p. 35. 
New species : — 
Leucaspis torquata , Costa, Atti Acc. Nap. ix. (11) p. 37, Sardinia. 
