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years later Francis Walker, in his " List of the Chalcidise in the 

 British Museum," brings the genera together and gives to the 

 group the family name Eucharidce, wrongly associating with 

 them the genera Perilampus and Caratomus, neither of which 

 belong here, although the former exhibits some affinities. 



Subsequent to this publication new species and genera con 

 tinued to be discovered. Westwood, who had announced his in 

 tention of monographing the group, in 1835 erected his genus 

 Schizaspidia^ for a form discovered in India, while in 1868 

 he described his genus Eucharissa^ from the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



In 1856 Forster recognized the group as a distinct family mxler 

 the name Eucharoidce. 



Between this time and 1884 there was a long period of rest, so 

 far as the establishment of genera, although new species con 

 tinued to be described, especially by Francis Walker. In this 

 year, however, Mr. Peter Cameron, 3 in working up the Mexican 

 and Central American Chalcidid&, found it necessary to charac 

 terize four new genera, viz., Orascma, Lophyrocera, Lirata, 

 and Kapala. He gave a good table for recognizing the new 

 genera, and they were incorporated by Dr. Howard in his table 

 of the Eucharincc, prepared for Cresson's Synopsis of the North 

 American Hymenoptera. 



Two years later, however, or in 1886, the group received an 

 excellent generic revision at the hands of Mr. W. F. Kirby, 4 As 

 sistant in the Zoological Department in the British Museum. 



This revision was based upon types and the extensive material 

 in the British Museum, and is entitled "A Synopsis of the Genera 

 of the Chalcididae, Subfamily Eucharincc, with Descriptions of 

 Several New Genera and Species." 



Brief but fairly good diagnoses of all the known genera are 

 given, and in every case the type of the genus is mentioned. The 

 following new genera were characterized : Tricoryna, Metagea, 

 Chalcura, Rhipipallus, Tetramelia^ Uromelia, and Saccha- 

 rissa . 



Mr. Kirby terminates his paper with a table of the genera, in 

 which 12 genera are tabulated. He has, however, not included 

 Eucharissa and Saccharissa ', these he considers represent a new 

 subfamily, which he calls Eucharissince, but does not define. In 

 this separation I cannot follow him. 



Mr. Kirby settled definitely the types of the various genera, and 

 since the publication of his S3'iiopsis it has been possible for the 

 student to pursue intelligently further studies in the group. His 



J WesLwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835, p. 69. 



2 Id., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 36. 



3 Cameron, Biol. Centr.-Am. Hym., i, p. 101 cl scq. 



4 Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., xx, pp. 28 37. 



