THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CLASSIFICAllON OF THE FOSSORIAL, PREUACEOUS AND 



PARASITIC WASPS, OR THE SUPEKFAMILY 



VP:SPOinEA. 



BV WILLIAM H. ASHMEAlJ, M. A., D. SC, ASSISTANT CURATOR, U. S. 



NATIONAL MUSF.UM. 



(Paper No. i8. — Continued from Vol. XXXV., p. 332.^ — Conclusion.) 



Subfamily II. — Ephulinje. 



This subfamily is readily separated from the Mntillime by tiie 

 difference in the abdomen, both sexes having the first segment much 

 narrowed, or petioliform, and separated from the second by a more or less 

 distinct constriction or furrow ; it is never broadly sessile with the second 

 as in the MutillituB. 



The group is based upon the genus Ephuta, Say, as I have restricted 

 it, bat not as defined by Andre'. Say, in his original brief description, 

 designated no type for the genus, but placed under it three species, 

 namely, Mictilla erjihrina, Klug ; M. scrupea, Say, and AT. gibbosa, Say. 

 When I recognized the genus I designated as the type E. scntpea, Say, 

 the only species I knew in both sexes. As I was the first to designate a 

 type for it, my views should prevail ; in fact, must prevail under the rules 

 of zoological nomenclature. 



The genus Rkoptromuiilla, Andre, is Ephuta, Say, as I defined it 

 under a new name. 



Of my genus Allomutilla Mr. Andre says : " Ce genre a ete fonde 

 par Ashmead sur le ^ de D. melicerta, a Smith, qui d'apres I'auteur cite, 

 presenterait cette particularite d'avoir les deux nervures recurrentes 

 recues par la seconde cellule cubitale, or cette assertion est errone'e, car 

 chez le $ en question dont j'ai pa examiner plusier examplaires, les 

 nervures recurrentes sont recues comme d'ordinaire, par le 2e et 3e 

 cellules cubitales." 



My definition is correct, and Andre''s several examples of M. 

 melicerta. Smith, probably represent some other species. Radoszkowski, 

 in Horee Soc. Ent., Rossicae, Vol. VI., 1869, PI. 10, Fig. 4, gives a good 

 figure of M. melicerta, Smith, and if Mons. Andre will consult this figure 

 he will see that the second cubital cell receives both recurrent nervures, as 

 I have stated. Another species figured by Radoszkowski, Mutilla 

 egregia, Klug, also has the same venation and will fall into Allomutilla, 

 Ashmead. 



