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Tribe Mecinini Desbrochers (1893). 



Gymnetrides Lacordaire, 1SG6, Gen. Col., vol. 7, p. (i. 

 Gynmetrinae Pascoe, 1S70, Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. 10, p. 437. 

 Mecinini, Desbrochers des Loges, 1893, Le Frelon, vols. 2, 3. 

 Gymnetrinae Bovie, 1909, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 92. 

 Type genus. -Mecinus Germar, 1S21, Mag. der Ent., vol. 4, p. 

 315. 



Type pyraster Herbst, designated by Schonherr (1X2(0, in 

 Cure. Disp. Meth. 



This tribe has been placed by most writers in the Apostasi- 

 merida, associating Mecinus, Gymnaetron and Miarus. These 

 genera differ radically in coxal character. There has been much 

 difference of opinion as to the proper position of all three genera. 

 Judging from Bovie's figure of the pupa of Miarus campanulae I 

 consider that genus to really belong in the Apostasimerida. On 

 the other hand the pupae in my possession of Gymnaetron teter 

 prove beyond a doubt that it is Anthonomine in its essential 

 characteristics. Lacordaire acknowledged that Gymnetron had 

 the Anthonomine characters but he preferred to associate it with 

 Miarus. 



This tribe was generically monographed under the name 

 Gymnetrinae by Bovie (1909) in Genera Insectorum, fasc. 92, and 

 included only three genera, Mecinus, Gymnetron, and Miarus. 

 The genus Mecinus does not occur in this country. I am now 

 excluding Miarus from the tribe and leaving it in the Apostasi- 

 merid series, Orobitidae. 



Genus Gymnaetron Schonherr. 



Gymnaetron Schonherr, 1826, Cure. Disp. Meth., p. 319. 

 Type beccabungae Linnaeus, by original designation. 



Gymnetron Schonherr, 1X37, Gen. et Sp. Cure. vol. 4, pp. 743- 

 776. Monograph. 



Gymnetron Brisout de Barneville, 1X62, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 4, 



vol. 2, pp. 62.V668. Revision of genus. 

 Gymnetron Desbrochers, 1X93, Le Frelon, vol. 2, No. 10 11, pp. 



1-18. Revision of genus. 



Gymnetron Reitter, 1907, Bestimmungs Tab. o9. Yerh. Xatur- 

 forsch. Yer. Bninn, vol. <>."), separate pp. 1.") 43. Revision of 

 genus. 



Gymnetron Bovie, 1909, Gen. Insectorum (Wytsman's), fasc. 

 92, pp. 8-16, 2 plates. List of species in genus. 



