156 FAMILY EVANIID.E. 



Shuekanl leaves no doubt as to the generic place of his species, a 

 true Hyptla. The simplest course to adopt in treating it is to 

 establish that henceforth, until Shuckard's type be examined, it is a 

 synonym and likewise a homonym of Blanchard's thoracica, and 

 therefore has no standing. Therefore, when Shuckard's type can 

 be examined, if it proves to be the same as the species that I have 

 described, no further change need be made; if different, it will re- 

 main a homonym, though no longer a synonym, and a new name 

 will have to be given it. On the ground that Blanchard's name 

 thoracica had been previously used, Westwood in 1851 proposed the 

 name dorsalis to re{ilace it. But thoracica had not been previously 

 used other than in manuscript, hence dorsalis Westwood has no 

 standing whatsoever, except to invalidate as a homonym dorsalis 

 Cameron, proposed for a Central American species and replaced by 

 cameroui Schletterer. The name dorsalis has been used without 

 shadow of reason by collectors for Evaniella semoioda. 



Now further confusion arises from Schletterer who indicates the 

 possibility of synonymy as follows : he refers thoracica Blauchard, 

 thoracica Guerin, and dorsalis Westwood to the Mexican azteka 

 Schletterer; thoracica Guerin again to the Asiatic dimidiata Fabr. ; 

 thoracica Shuckard to ocellaria Schletterer from Mexico and the 

 Antilles. In every case except in the reference oi' thoracica Guerin 

 to dimidiata he refers them with an interrogation niai-k ; dimidiata 

 and thoracica Guerin he makes definitely identical, and we would 

 have to consider this as determining the positicni of the species until 

 the type be rediscovered, were it not for the })alpable absurdity of 

 identifying it with an Asiatic species without any cause. Identifi- 

 cation of thoracica Guerin with dimidiata Fabricius would also 

 necessarily include thoracica Blanchard and dorsalis Westwood. 

 So we shall have to leave Schletterer out of consideration in this 

 case for he is very evidently in error. 



Hyptia floridaiia Ashmead. 

 1901. Hyptia floridana Asliniead, Cau. Eiit., xxxiii, p. 302. 

 190'2. Brachygaster floridanus Kieffer, Gen. In.sec, ii, p. 5. 



9 . — Dull black. Sparingly clothed with short white hairs. Head seen from 

 above transverse, subquadrate, angles rounded, the eves occupying almost the 

 entire width; posterior edge tunicate; anterior edge between the eyes convex. 

 not noticeably emarginate niesally. Profile elliptical, soniewliat jiointed above; 

 eyes oblique; forehead flat; temples quite narrow above, three or more times as 

 wide below; malar space (.22 mm.) oue-half as long as the eyes (.48 mm.); 



