ALBERT

Description: For the pollination of their flowers, plants of the genus Ficus are absolutely dependent upon the activity of small insects, the ”fig wasps” (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, family Agaonidae). Consequently, no account of Ficus can be exhaustive without considering the entomological data. On the other hand, the fig wasps can only develop in the gall flowers of the fig receptacle. Consequently again, in the evaluation of the data on fig wasps, great stress should be laid on the botanical evidence. These statements may serve as ample justification for the appearance of an entomologists’ notes in this botanical bulletin. Since 1960 I am working through a large collection of Indo-malayan and Papuan fig wasps, mainly consisting of the collection made by Dr. J. van der Vecht at Bogor, and material sent by Dr. E.J.H. Corner from various parts of Malaya, Indonesia, Papua, and Melanesia. As the study of the fig wasps is still in its analytical stage, progress is slow, but the results are promising.

Description: Introduction of the new genus Deilagaon with descriptions of new species chrysolepidis (type-species) from the Philippines (type-locality Luzon, ex Ficus chrysolepis Miq.), Celebes, New Guinea (ex F. novoguineensis Corner), Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Isis.; and annulatae from Thailand, Malaya (ex F. depressa Bl.), Sumatra, Borneo (type-locality N. Borneo, ex F. annulata Bl.), Philippines. Included is also Ceratosolen megarhopalus Grandi (1923) from Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines (Balabac Isl.).

Description: The genus Eujacobsonia, with its type species E. mirabilis, was described by Grandi (1923, 1924) from three female specimens caught at light in Sumatra. Many more examples from the same locality, Fort de Kock ("Bukittinggi", ca. 100 km north of Padang), were recorded by Grandi in 1928.\nEujacobsonia was classified by Grandi in the tribe Sycophagini (Agaoninae), which, as was recently suggested (Wiebes, 1961), should be regarded as a subfamily in the Torymidae. Joseph (1964) accommodated the genus in the nominate tribe Sycophagini, but in the same year (Wiebes, 1964) it was referred to the Otitesellini.\nRecent material in the collections of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden (RMNH) was reared by Prof. E. J. H. Corner from the receptacles of Ficus depressa Bl. in Selangor, Malaya, and Ficus annulata Bl. in North Borneo. Several light catches from Thailand, North Borneo, and the southern islands of the Philippines were sent to me for identification by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu (BMH), the Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen (material collected by the Noona Dan Expedition 1961-1962 1); ZMC), and by the United States National Museum, Washington (USNM). Thanks are due to Prof. Corner, and to Drs. C. M. Yoshimoto, B. Petersen, and B. D. Burks, for their kind help in making this material available for my study.\nEujacobsonia Grandi Eujacobsonia Grandi, 1923, Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova 51: 105 (descr. 9 ; monobasic, type E. mirabilis Grandi) ; Grandi, 1924, Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici 18: 23-24 (redescr. \xe2\x99\x80 ) ; Grandi, 1963, Boll. 1st. Ent. Univ. Bologna 26: 362 (latest edition of catalogue) ; Joseph,

Description: Revision of Kradibia Saunders, with descriptions of new species hilli (type \xe2\x99\x80, Uganda, host Ficus urceolaris auctt. = F. stortophylla Warb.) and setigera (type \xe2\x99\x80, Borneo, host F. leptogramma Corner), and redescriptions of K. brownii Ashmead (Philippines, host F. ulmifolia Lam.) and K. cowani Saunders (Madagascar, host F. ? soroceoides Baker; R\xc3\xa9union, host F. morifolia Lam.). One species of Ceratosolen from a Sycidium-fig is described, viz., C. internatus (type \xe2\x99\x80, Java, host Ficus asperiuscula K. & \xd0\x92.).

Description: Recently, I received a sample of fig wasps from Uganda (East Africa), collected by Mrs. Ir. W. A. Rijks-Jongbloed in November, 1960. The fig, from which the insects were taken, was recognized by Dr. Gordon P. DeWolf as belonging to Ficus brachypoda Hutchinson1). The sample consisted of two species of Agaonidae, viz., Agaon paradoxum (Dalman) Grandi, and Seres armipes Waterston; moreover several species of Idarninae were represented. The Agaonid species were known from West Africa only2), where they seem to be rather constant in their characters. It is interesting to establish the fact that the species also occur in East Africa, where, however, they differ significantly from the West African forms. The East African forms are described here as separate subspecies. The material is preserved in the Leiden Museum.\nAGAON PARADOXUM MODESTUM nov. subspec. 4 \xe2\x99\x80\xe2\x99\x80, 1 \xe2\x99\x82, ex Ficus brachypoda Hutch., Kampala (Uganda), XI-1960; coll. no. 481; type, \xe2\x99\x82, slide no. 481a; allotype, \xe2\x99\x80, slide no. 481b.\nFigs. 1-6, Agaon paradoxum modestum nov. subsp.: 1, head of female, X 17; 2, antenna of female, external aspect, X 40; 3, antenna of male, dorsal aspect, X 72; 4, head, thorax, and propodeum of male, X 17; 5, femur, tibia, and tarsi II of male, external aspect, X 53; 6, abdominal segments and penis of male, dorsal aspect, X 53 (VII, VIII, IX, X, urites, p, penis, s, stigmata). \xe2\x99\x80. Head, fig. 1. Mandibular appendage with approximately thirty-five transverse rows of teeth. Maxillae I with four lateral setae, not counting the apicals. Antenna, fig. 2. First segment of tarsus I (fig. 9) with ten subventral, conical spines; second to fourth segments with one apical spine each. Projecting part of the ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen.

Description: After having given for publication my report on the West African Agaonidae (Wiebes, 1969b), I received on loan the type specimens of several species described by J. Risbec (1951a, b; 1954a, b). A few lines on the results of the study of these specimens could be incorporated in the proof of my paper previously mentioned. Formal type designations and some additional remarks on the Agaonidae described by Risbec (1955, 1956) from East Africa and Madagascar, are given in the present note. A summary is presented in table 1 (page 8).\nDuring a short visit to the Mus\xc3\xa9um National d\'Histoire naturelle at Paris (abbreviated MP in the text), I could study some more slides of the Agaonidae, and examples of the greater part of the Torymidae Sycophaginae described or recorded by Risbec (1951a, b; 1956, 1957). Preliminary notes and remarks upon these Torymidae conclude the present report.\nI acknowledge the assistance of Dr. J. R. Steffan, of the Paris Museum, who sent on loan most of the material recorded in this paper. Dr. R. M, Quentin (ORSTOM, Bondy, France) sent on loan specimens of the species from Madagascar; Dr. K. J. Joseph (Karnatak University, India) sent the type of Ceratosolen longicornis Joseph.\nAgaon paradoxum Dalman Agaon paradoxum; Risbec, 1954b : 1086 ( \xe2\x99\x80, Ivory Coast, Adiopodoum\xc3\xa9); Wiebes, 1968b: 354 (full bibliography); Wiebes, 1969b: 452 (\xe2\x99\x80, Ivory Coast, Bingerville and Divo, several data in 1962-1964, at light).\nBlastophaga Villiersi Risbec, 1954a: 538-540, fig. 3a-c (descr. \xe2\x99\x80, Senegal, Dakar, 29.vii.1952, at light); Wiebes, 1961: 237 (in Agaon Dalman); Wiebes, 1968b: 354 (catalogue); Wiebes, 1969b: 451 (synonym of Agaon paradoxum Dalman).

Description: Review of the Australian species of Pleistodontes Saunders (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae: fig insects), with description of new species Pleistodontes cuneatus (from Ficus leucotricha Miq.) and P. proximus (from F. platypoda A. Cunn. ex Miq.), both collected in E. Kimberley, W. Australia, and redescription of P. nigriventris Girault (from F. watkinsiana F. M. Bailey), collected at Sydney.

Description: This paper is a tribute to Prof. Dr. L. D. Brongersma, in remembrance of the years I served as his deputy in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie.\nThe genus Alfonsiella was described by Waterston (1920) for A. fimbriata, a series of females of which were collected at Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika.\nIn 1959, Joseph recorded females of A. fimbriata from Mt. Nimba, Guinea, and from the same locality he described A. longiscapa. Wiebes (1969) recorded A. fimbriata from Bingerville, Ivory Coast. More female specimens of both West African forms were caught at light by Dr. J. T. Medler at Ile-Ife, Nigeria; females and males of A. longiscapa were reared by him from the receptacles of Ficus cf. leprieuri.\nDr. D. S. Hill, when at Makerere University, Uganda, obtained males and females of Alfonsiella from three species of figs, viz., Ficus dekdeknena, F. natalensis, and Ficus spec. It is peculiar that several samples contained a species of Elisabethiella Grandi next to that of Alfonsiella. This simultaneous occurrence of two species of Agaonidae in one fig is well worth of further investigation. It is suggestive of the sort of relation described by Galil & Eisikowitch (1969) for Ceratosolen arabicus and C. galili in Ficus sycomorus.\nThere is a similar case with Ficus capensis, in the receptacles of which Ceratosolen capensis an\'d C. flabellatus occasionally are found together. Now that several of these instances have become known from Africa, the few from the Indo-Malayan region (see Wiebes, 1966) may warrant an explanation different from that suggested when they were found. Some instances of American Agaonidae reported from one species of fig were mentioned by Ramirez (1970): only that of Blastophaga mariae and B. carlosi in Ficus tuerckheimi would seem to be genuine, and may be corresponding with rela-

Description: In 1964, by awarding to me that year\'s proceeds of the "Pieter Langerhuizen Fonds", the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen enabled me to study figs and fig wasps in the Philippines. While several Philippine fig wasps are already known from the papers by Ashmead (1904, 1905), Brown (1906), Baker (1913), Williams (1921, 1928), Grandi (1927, 1930), Baltazar (1966), Wiebes (1963, 1966a, b, 1967a, b, and 1974) and Hill (1969), the collection made in 1964 and 1965 still contains much new material. In this and forthcoming reports I shall include data on the collection made by F. X. Williams, received in loan from the Hawaiian Sugar Planters\' Association, Honolulu (abbreviated HSPA), and on several lots of material sent for identification by: the American Museum of Natural History, New York (AMNH), the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu (BMH), the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (CAS), the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden (RMNH), the United States National Museum, Washington (USNM), and the Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen (ZMC; material from the Noona Dan Expedition, see Petersen, 1966).\nA short report on my trip to the Philippines was published in the Dutch language (Wiebes, 1965). All collecting localities are indicated on the map of fig. 1 of the present paper. Of the many colleagues who helped me in one way or another, I here only mention four, viz., Dra. Clare R. Baltazar, at the time of my visit Entomologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Manila; Dr. F. B. Calora, Head of the Department of Entomology, University of the Philippines\' College of Agriculture (UPCA); Prof. E. J. H.\nCorner, University of Cambridge; and Prof. J. V. Pancho, Botanist of the

Description: INTRODUCTION\nIn this catalogue \xe2\x80\x94 entitled "provisional" because our knowledge of the subject is still so evidently incomplete \xe2\x80\x94 all species of Ficus mentioned as hosts of fig wasps, are listed with the Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea reared from their receptacles.\nThe names used for the Agaonidae are in accordance with those in Grandi\'s (1963b) world catalogue of this Chalcidoid family, two items excepted for nomenclatorial reasons, viz. Blastophaga (B.) inopinata and B. (Eupristina) jacobsoni. Blastophaga (B.) puncticeps distinguenda Grandi (1916a: 129), if considered conspecific with B. (B.) inopinata Grandi (1926: 355), should be called B. (B.) d. distinguenda Grandi, while B. (B.) puncticeps sensu Grandi (1916a: 129) not Mayr (1906: 156), should be indicated as B. (B.) distinguenda inopinata Grandi. The name Eupristina jacobsoni Grandi (1926: 358) cannot be used now that Eupristina Saunders is reduced to a subgenus of Blastophaga Gravenhorst (Grandi, 1963b: 334), Grandes name being preoccupied by B. (Waterstoniella) jacobsoni Grandi (1916a: 126). I suggested the need for a replacement name to Prof. Grandi, who left the renaming to me. I propose Blastophaga (Eupristina) adempta nom. nov. for B. (E.) jacobsoni Grandi.\nThe Chalcidoidea of the family Torymidae, subfamily Sycophaginae, and most of the other inquilines, should be thoroughly revised before a critical list of their host preferences can be presented. Their nomenclature is not very stable as yet. The name Philotrypesis ornata Grandi (1930: 82), synonym P. unispinosa sensu Grandi (1921b: 128; 1926: 361) not Mayr (1906: 175) is preoccupied by P. unispinosa ornata Grandi (1921b: 137),