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SOME NEW GENERA IN THE CYN1POIDEA. 



By WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



Family FIGITID^. 



Subfamily 



Kiefferiella, n. n. (= Kiejferia Ashm., preoc. in Diptera). 



This genus comes next to Figites Latreille, but is quite dis 

 tinct in having the head and thorax coarsely rugosely punctate, 

 by the antennae being filiform, the joints cylindrical, the third 

 shorter than the fourth, and by the abdomen being compressed, 

 the second segment being as long as 3 and 4 united. 



Type: K. rugosa Ashm., taken in the Santa Cruz Mts., 

 California. 



The genus is dedicated to Abbe J. J. Kieffer, Professor at 

 Bitche, Deutsch-Lothringen, who has so ably monographed the 

 European Cynipidae. 



Subfamily EUC OILING. 



Zamischus Ashmead. 



The type of this genus, Z. brasiliensis, was taken by Mr. 

 Herbert H. Smith in Brazil, and is the most striking form yet 

 discovered in this group, being unique and quite unlike any other 

 known Eucoiline. The metathorax is produced posteriorly into 

 a long neck, the length of the hind coxae, while the abdomen is 

 attached to this by an abnormally long, slender and smooth 

 petiole the length of the body ; the antennae and the venation of 

 the front wings are also peculiar, the former being very long, 

 gradually thickened towards apex, while the costal and marginal 

 cells are confluent, the marginal cell being only partially formed, 

 entirely open all along the front margin, much as in Onychia 

 Haliday. It shows some affinity with the Liopterinae. 



Type: Z. brasiliensis Ashm. (Chapada, Brazil.) 



Tropideucoila Ashmead. 



This genus is allied to Disorygma Forster, but is easily separ 

 ated by having 5 longitudinal carinae on the mesonotum, and by 

 the scutellum being bidentate. The antennae are i3-jointed, 

 filiform. 



Type: T. rufipes Ashm. (Chapada, Brazil.) 



Promiomera Ashmead. 



Allied to Miomera Forster but easily separated by the antennae, 

 which, in the $, are n-jointed, filiform, tapering off at apex; in 

 3% long, i3-jointed, the third joint very much shorter than the 

 fourth . 



Type: P. filicornis Ashm. (Chapada, Brazil.) 



