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microgaster Say. Ont., Pa., Md., Ga., Ohio, Mich., Wis., Ill, Minn., Kans., Okla., Tex. 



Chalcin ))iicrogaster Say, 1824. In Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., App. p. 326. 

 neptis Burks. Nebr., Colo., N. Hex., Idaho, Utah, Ariz., Wash., Oreg., Calif. 



Chalcis nepti.s Burks, 1940. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 88: 251. 9,6. 

 phoenicapoda Burks. Ga., Fla. 



S)nicra nifipes Kirby, 1883. Linn. Soc. London, Jour., Zool. 17: 70. Preocc. by Olivier, 1790. 



Clialcis phoenicapoda Burks, 1940. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 88: 257. N. name. 



Taxonomy: Peck, 1963. Canad. Ent., Sup. 30: 869 {nifipea Kirby valid name for sp.). 



Genus SPILOCHALCIS Thomson 



SpUocliakis Thomson, 1876 (1875). Hym. Scand., v. 4, p. 15. 



Type-species: Chalcis xa)i(liostig)na Dalman. Monotypic. 

 Diplodonfia Ashmead, 1888. Ent. Amer. 4: 87. 



Type-species: Sniicra Carolina Ashmead. Desig. by Ashmead, 1904. 

 Euntypium Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 251, 253, 412. 



Type-species: Eiistypium bicolor Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Enneasniicra Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 252, 253, 449. 



Type-species: Sniicm exinaniens Walker. Orig. desig. 

 Octosniicm Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 252, 253, 450. 



Type-species: Octosniicra laticeps Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 HeptaN))iicm Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 252, 253, 451. 



Type-species: Sniicra obliterans Walker. Orig. desig. 

 Hexasniicra Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 252, 254, 454. 



Type-species: Sniicra transversa Walker. Orig. desig. 

 Pentasinicra Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 252, 254, 455. 



Type-species: Pentasniicra brasiliensis Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Tetrastnicra Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 252, 254, 456. 



Type-species: Sniicra concitata Walker. Orig. desig. 

 Trisviicra Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 252, 254, 456. 



Type-species: Sniicra contracta Walker. Monotypic. 



Cameron in 1910 (Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 35: 422-425), under the heading Spilochalcis Thom- 

 son, made a mistake and spelled the generic name for two of his three new species Spilosinicra. 

 All authors have accepted this as a lapsus. In 1944 Graham (Ent. Soc. Ont., Ann. Rpt. 74: 49) 

 recorded the European species Spilochalcis xanthostigvia (Dalman) from Ontario (name spelled 

 zanthostigmata by error). In 1965 I was able to find and re-examine the specimen on which this 

 record was based; it was albifrons (Walsh). 



Revision: Burks, 1940. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 88: 243, 263-343. 



Species Group Transitiva 



dorsata (Cresson). N. C, Ga., Fla., 111., Mo., Kans., Tex.; Mexico. 



Sniicra dorsata Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 49. 9. 



Spilochalcis niissouriensis Howard, 1885. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 5: 6. 9. 

 eubule (Cresson). Ga., Fla.; West Indies. Host: Eurevia nicippe Cram., Phoebis sennae (L.). 



Sniiera Eubule Cresson, 1865. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 4: 93. 

 exornata (Cresson). Tex., Ariz., Calif.; Mexico, Cent. Amer., West Indies. Mimorista 

 Jlavidissinialis (Grote) listed questionably as a host. 



Sniicra exornata Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 50. cJ. 

 phoenica Burks. Tex., Ariz., Calif.; Mexico, Cent. Amer. Host: Chlosyne lacinia crocale (Edw.). 



Spilochalcis phoenica Burks, 1940. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 88: 278. 9, 6. 



Biology: Drummond et al., 1970. Lepidopterists Soc, Jour. 24: 140. 



transitiva (Walker). Ga., Fla.; West Indies. 



Sniiera transitira Walker, 1862. Ent. Soc London, Trans. (3) 1: 371. 9. 

 Sniiera pulchra Cresson, 1865. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 4: 94. 



Taxonomy: Burks, 1975. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. Bui. 32 (4): 165. 



