Note 473 — LETTER IX.
Reading edition
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.