CHALCIDIDjK. 
Ins. 143 
Iloclc. (?) figurutor, Walk. (== nigricola, Walk.), II. (?) nyssa , Walk. (== 
2 )roxenus, Walk.) ; Chalcis cujdccce, Hope (= lasus , inclinatoi ", and obscur- 
ator, Walk.), jinator , Walk. (= mansueta, Walk.), amenocles , Walk. (= 
polyctor , Walk., 1862, wee 1841, and varipes , Walk.), fiavipes , Fabr. (wee 
Panz., but = ovata , Say, annulipes , Walk., ? Integra , Hald., incerta , Cress., 
and panamensis, Holmgr.), and 0. (?) vicaria , Walk. (= eurytomoides , 
Walk.) ; 0. concreia and concitata, Walk., are probably sexes. 
Saunders, [Sir] S. S. Descriptions of 3 New Genera and Species of Fig 
Insects allied to Blastophaga , from Calcutta, Australia, and Mada- 
gascar, with notes on their parasites and on the affinities of the 
respective races. Tr. E. Soc. 1883, pp. 1-27, pis. i.-iii., and P. E. Soc. 
1883, pp. v. & vi. 
Includes very important notes on structure and habits. The writer 
divides the Cynipidai into Sycophagides , Cecidopliagides , and Hetero- 
phagides, or aphidivorous Cynipidai ; and divides the Sycophagides into 
Prionastomata\_Prionost - ] (including^the genera Blastophaga , Grav., 
Dalm., Sycocrypta, Coq., Eupristina , Plistodontes , and Kradibia, Saund.), 
and Aploa&tomata \_IIaplost-~\ (including Sycophaga , Wostw., and 4po- 
crypta , Coq.). 
. On the Cynips caricce of Hasselquist, and other Fig Insects allied 
thereto, with description of a new species from Australia. L. c. 
pp. 383-392, pi. xviii. 
Cynips caricai , Hasselq., proves to be an Idarnella [probably = ficarius , 
Mayer, and Sycoscaptclla (?) 4 -setosa, Westw.] ; the insect and details are 
represented, figs. 1 & la, b. 
Westwood, J. 0. Further Descriptions of Insects Infesting Figs. Tr. 
E. Soc. 1883, pp. 29-47, pis. iv.-x. 
Includes remarks on papers by Walker & Mayer ; and descriptions of 
new genera and species of Ilymenoptera infesting Ficus indica , religiosa, 
and asperrima in India and Ceylon. 
. Further Notice concerning the Fig Insects of Ceylon. L. c. 
pp. 375-380. 
Discusses Sycocaptella (?) 4 -sclosa, Westw. (probably = ficarius 
Mayer), figs. 1 & 1 a-/., and Apocrypta perplexa, Coq., figs. 2 & 2 a-g. 
Note on the structure of the abdomen in the Chalcididai ; Andr6, P. E. 
Soc. 1883, p. xxiii. 
Review of Mayer’s paper on Fig Insects ; F. Muller, Kosmos, xii. 
pp. 310-314. 
Notes on caprification ; Hemsley, Nature, xxvii. pp. 584 & 586, and 
Saunders, P. E. Soc. 1883, pp. xxxi. & xxxii. 
Lcucospis mexicana , Walk., noticed and figured ; Cameron, Biol. Centr. 
Am. Hym. p. 76, pi. iv. figs. 11 & 11 a-c. 
Chalets ovata, Say, noticed ; Lintner, Rep. Ins. N. York, i. p. 86. 
Sycobia bethyloides, Walk. Genus and species redescribed at length ; 
Westwood, Tr. E. Soc, 1883, pp. 31 & 32, pi. iv. figs. 1-8. 
Perilampus violaceus, Dalm., redescribed ; Lintner, Rep. Ins. N. York, 
i. pp. 146 & 147. 
