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Family EURYTOMIDAE. 



BEPHRATA CUBENSIS Ashmead: Crawford, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 19! 1, 



p. 274. Infesting seeds of Anona in Cuba. 

 BEPHRATA PARAGUAYENSIS Crawford, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1911, 



p. 274. Reared from seeds of Anona sp. received from Paraguay. 

 BRUCHOPHAGUS FUNEBRIS (Howard): Webster, Bur. Ent. Circ. 69, 1906. 



Infests seeds of clover (Trifolium) spp. and alfalfa (Medicago safiva Linne.). 



Probably cosmopolitan. 

 BRUCHOPHAGUS MELLIPES Gahan, 1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, 1919, p. 



513; Eurytoma indi (Girault) Ramakrishna Ayyar, Rept. Proc. 3d Ent. 



Meeting, Pusa, 1919, Calcutta, 1920, p. 315. PI. 9, fig./. Said to live in 



the pods of dhaincha (Sesbania aegyptiaca), destroying the seeds. Also 



recorded from "red gram pods" (Cajamus indicus) and from "agathi pods" 



(Sesbania grandiflora). India. 

 DECATOMIDEA COOK.I Howard, Bur. Ent. Bull. Techn. ser. 2, 1896, p. 23. Reared 



from grape seeds collected at Lansing, Michigan. Four specimens from 



Vienna, Austria, reared from Iritis californica imported from California. 

 EURYTOMA ACACIAE Cameron, The Ent., vol. 43, 1910, p. 115. Infests seeds 



of Acacia decurrens in New Zealand. 

 EURYTOMA AMYGDALI Enderlein: Rodzianko, Kiev, 1913, 10 pp. (Rev. Appl. 



Ent., ser. A, vol. 2, 1914, p. 348); Lesne, Ann. Serv. Epiphyties, Paris, T. 



6, 1919, p. 228-241, 14 figs. Infests mature seeds of almond in Bulgaria 



and plums and apricots in Astrachan. 

 EURYTOMA JUNIPERINUS Marcovitch, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 8, 1915, 



pp. 166-68. Tunnels in fleshy part of fruits of Juniperus virginiana, at 



Ithaca, New York. 

 EURYTOMA LARICIS Yano, Rept. For. Bur. Tokyo, 1914, pp. 35-58. Infests 



seeds of Larix dahurica in Japan. 

 EURYTOMA LONGIPENNIS (Walker): Weijenbergh, Arch. Need. Sci. Exact., 



5, 1870, p. 420-7. Makes galls on Ammophila arundinacea (beach grass). 



Holland. 

 (Isosoma} EURYTOMA ORCHIDEARUM (Westwood), 2 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



1882, p. 323, f. 13. Larvae injure buds of Cattleya in Brazil and Mexico. 



Known to occur as a pest of orchids in the United States also. 



Specimens of this species were examined by Girault and given the manu- 

 script name, Eurytoma indi. This identification was returned to the Govern- 

 ment Entomologist of India, but so far as known no description of the species 

 has ever been published by Girault. A later sending of material from the same 

 source came into the hands of the writer, who was at the time unaware of 

 Girault's manuscript name, and were described in 1919 as Bruchophagits 

 mellipes. Subsequently Girault's type was discovered and found to be the same 

 species. The description of Rruchophagus mellipes antedates the note and figure 

 by Ramakrishna Ayyar. Hence, Eurytoma indi is a synonym of Rruchophagus 

 mellipes and the synonym should be credited to Ayyar and not to Girault. 



'-Specimens believed to be this species are in the National Collection reared 

 from orchids and are not Uarmolita ( = Isosoma) but belong more properly to 

 Eurytoma. 



