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three genera described by Dr. Mayr in the Perilampidae which 

 are gall makers and are entirely omitted. 



"It has been stated above that only a few of the genera de- 

 scribed since the appearance of Dr. Asbmead's tables have 

 been included. Since some of the genera described in 1907 are 

 included, it seems fair to assume that the work was not con- 

 cluded until that year. Taking for a basis the Zoological 

 Record, which is probably the most accessible of works which 

 give a list of the genera and species described during the year, 

 one finds that in 1904 there are 14 new genera, of which Dr. 

 Schmiedeknecht includes 10; in 1905 the Record gives 10 

 genera, and 5 are included; in 1906, 15 genera are given and 

 none of them are included; in 1907, 16 are given and 8 in- 

 cluded. This makes a total of 23 genera included out of 55 

 given in the Zoological Record. 



"From this it would appear that the literature since the time 

 of Dr. Ashmead's tables was largely unknown territory to the 

 author, and this belief is further strengthened by the omis- 

 sion of the various corrections to Dr. Ashmead's tables, which 

 were published soon after the appearance of his work. 



"Some of the generic names proposed by Dr. Ashmead in 

 his work on the work on the Chalcidoidea were preoccupied 

 and in the same year he gave new names to 6 of these genera, 

 but the corrections are not in Dr. Schmiedeknecht's work. The 

 genus Sericops is still retained in the Perilampidce, although 

 Dr. Mayr, in the Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien for 1905, trans- 

 ferred it to the Eurytomiui. In the same periodical for the 

 following year Dr. Mayr reduced his genus Colyostichns to a 

 synonym of Heterandrinm and also transferred Aepoccfus 

 Mayr to the Torymidse; neither of these changes has been in- 

 dicated. 



"In 1906 Dr. W. A. Schulz published in his Spolia Hymen- 

 opteralogica many corrections and additions to Delia Torre's 

 catalogue of the Hymenoptera, among them being a number 

 of species of Chalcididse described by Ashmead in 1888, and 

 these have not been included. This brings one to the consider- 

 ation of the list of species given by Schmiedeknecht. My card 

 catalogue of species of chalcids described since Delia Torre's 

 catalogue is arranged with the genera alphabetically, and 

 of the first 200 species in this list described between the date 

 of closing of Delia Torre's catalogue and the end of the year 

 1907, Dr. Schmiedeknecht has given only 103, which is gro- 

 tesquely incomplete. 



