.1. CHKSTKH BRADl.KY. 185 



The humeral angles are rounded ; the anterior, lateral and parapsidal grooves 

 well marked ; the mesonotum, scutelluni and propodeuni above the petiole 

 smooth and polished, with few moderate sized scattered punctures; the nieso- 

 pleurai smooth and shining; the anterior swelling peppered with exceedingly 

 minute punctulations ; the metapleurse and propodeum reticulate, the area 

 between them concave, with transverse cross-bars; the furcula has very short 

 divergent tynes. 



Wings dusky at the apex. Longer tibial spur one-half as long as the metatar- 

 sus; this as long as the remaining joints together; claws small, bifid, tiie inner 

 ray longer and stronger than the outer. 



Petiole sparingly punctuied. Abdomen round. Length 4 n)m. 



I take pleasure in dedicating this species to Professor E. Taschen- 

 berg, one of the few contributors in recent years to our knowledge 

 of this family. 



Hah. — Bartica, British Guiana, collected by R. J. Crew, May 

 17, 1901. 



Tijpe. — In the author's collection. 



SEN^ODOGA^iTER n. nora. 



(Figs. 30, 3L53and 84.) 

 Brnchygaster Stephens, preoc, Syst. Cat. Brit. Insec, 1, p. 343. 



The name Brachyguster has usually been dated from Leach, 1817, 

 Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, but tlie name as there employed is a 

 iiomen nudum and without standing. At the place cited, in an 

 article on entomology, Leach under the genus Evania mentions 

 Evania mimdus. As synonymous with this, he parenthetically 

 mentions Brachyguster minutus Leach jNISS. That is Leach's only 

 reference to the name in print. The first person to properly use the 

 name in Hymenoptera was Stephens in 1829. But in 1826 Meigen 

 had used it in Diptera, and it has since been used in Crustacea and 

 Coleoptera. So it is necessary to change it. 



The oidy described species is the European viinuta 01., which 

 Kieffer* maintains is different from the viuiida of Schletterer. 



HYPTIA lUiger. 



Type. — Evania petiolata Fabricius. 



The species petiolata of Fabricius is unrecognizable, and until its 

 identity be ascertained, Evania thoraciea Blanchard, as identified in 

 the first part of this paper, shall stand as type of the genus. 



For description of the genus, see the first part of this paper. It 

 is confined to the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. 



* Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixvli, p. 816. 



TEANS. AM. KNT. SOC, XXXIV. (24) JUNE, 1908. 



