Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 877 



violacea Ashmead. N. C, Fla. 



Omsenia violacea Ashmead, 1888. Ent. Amer. 3: 187. 6. 

 viridis Ashmead. N. C, N. Mex., Ariz.; Me.xico. 



Orasema viridis Ashmead, 1895. Calif. Acad. Sci., Proc. (2) 5: 553. 



Biology: Smith, 1912. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Tech. Ser. 19: 57-59. 



Morphology: Parker, 1924. Soc. Ent. de France, Ann. 93: 270 (larva). 

 wheeleri Wheeler. Tex., Colo. Host: Plieidole ceres Whir., P. sciopbila Whir., P. tepicana 

 Pergande. 

 Orasema wheeleri Wheeler, 1907. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 23: 14. 9. 



Subfamily EUCHARITINAE 



Genus PSEDOCHALCURA Ashmead 



Pneudochalcura Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 268, 269, 468. 

 Type-species: Eitcharis gibbosa Provancher. Orig. desig. 

 arizonensis (Crawford). Ariz. 



Chalcura arizoneunia Crawford, 1914. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 16: 29. 9. 



Biology: Pierce and Morrill, 1914. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 16: 22. —Clausen, 1940. Wash. Acad. 



Sci., Jour. 30: 505-509. 

 californica (Ashmead). Oreg., Calif. 



Chalcura califortiica Ashmead, 1892. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 2: 356. 6. 

 gibbosa (Provancher). Que., N. H., Mich. Host: Camponotus novaeboracensis (Fitch). 



Eucharis gibbosa Provancher, 1881. Nat. Canad. 12: 292. 9. 



Taxonomy: Burks, 1964 (1963). Canad. Ent. 95: 1258. 

 Biology: Wheeler, 1907. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 23: 16. 



Genus STILBULA Spinola 



Stilbula Spinola, 1811. Paris Mus. Hist. Nat., Ann. 17: 150. 



Type-species: Ichneumon cyniformis Rossi. Monotypic. 

 floridana (Ashmead). Fla. 



Lophyrocera floridana Ashmead, 1888. Ent. Amer. 3: 187. 6. 



Taxonomy: Gahan, 1940. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 88: 435-436. 



montana Ashmead. Colo. 



Stilbula montana Ashmead, 1890. Colo. Biol. Assoc, Bui. 1: 24, 45. 9. 



septentrionalis (Brues). Ariz. 



Schizaspidia septeiitrionalis Brues, 1907. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bui. 5: 104. 9. 



Genus LOPHYROCERA Cameron 



Lophyrocera Cameron, 1884. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Hym. 1, pp. 101, 103. 



Type-species: Lophyrocera stramineipes Cameron. Desig. by Ashmead, 1904. 



apicalis Ashmead. CaHf. 



Lophyrocera apicalis Ashmead, 1892. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 2: 357. 9. 

 nigromaculata Cameron. Ariz.; Cent. Amer. 



Lophyrocera nigromaculata Cameron, 1884. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Hym. 1, p. 104. 



Genus KAPALA Cameron 



Kapala Cameron, 1884. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Hym. 1, p. 102. 



Type-species: Eucharis furcata Fabricius. Monotypic. 

 Capala Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., p. 150. Emend. 

 floridana (Ashmead). Fla. 



Thoracantha floridana Ashmead, 1885. Ent. Amer. 1: 96. i. 



Taxonomy: Ashmead, 1885. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 12: Proc. p. xi. 



