[473] Latreille denominates this family, as he calls it, Pupivora: if by this he alludes to their devouring the young of insects, from the classical meaning of the word pupa, the term is very proper; but this should be borne in mind, as the majority of readers would imagine it to refer to the pupa state of insects, in which they are not so generally devoured by their parasites.

[474] Not having had it in my power to consult Dalman's work on the Chalcidites of Latreille, referred to by that learned Entomologist in his Familles Naturelles du Règne Animal, I am not able to refer them to their proper genera.

[475] Plate [XVI.] Fig. 1.

[476] Marsham in Linn. Trans. iii. 26.

[477] See above, p. [169]-[170].

[478] Alysia Manducator; and another species allied to Alomyia Debellator, which I have named A. Stercorator.

[479] De Geer, ii. 863.

[480] Ibid. 851-5.

[481] Reaum. ii. 419.

[482] De Geer, i. 196. vi. 14. 24.