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SYNONYM ICAL NOTES ON ŒDIONYCHIS 



BY F. C. BOWDITCH, BROOKLINE, MASS. 



In the rearrangement of my Oedionychis material I note the 

 following: 



In the Biologia, p. 418, speaking of ociilata Fabr., Mr. Jacoby 

 mentioned a figure of a species taken by himself. This figure is 

 now before me, and agrees exactly with a specimen I have from 

 Cayenne (typical locality). I think additional material will prove 

 that the Central American form is distinct. 



The name illigeri (Jac.) Proc. Zool. Soc.,1905, p. 441, for a Trini- 

 dad species was previously used in the Biologia, p. 421, for a Panama 

 insect, so I would suggest for the later form the name trinidadensis. 



The name inconspicua (Jac.) I.e., p. 424, for an Amazon form, 

 was previously used in the Biologia, p. 417, for a Mexican species, 

 so I would suggest for the later form the name amazona. 



The name colomhiana (Jac.) I.e., p. 445, was previously used in 

 the same paper, p. 427, evidently some uncorrected error, for the 

 species described on p. 445. I suggest the name confusa. 



The name rtistica (Jac.) I.e., p. 433, for an Argentine form, was 

 peviously used by Von Harold, Deut, Ent. Zeit. XXI, p. 434, for a 

 species from Bahia. For the Jacoby species I suggest the name 

 similis. 



The name intersignata (Jac.) I.e., p. 433, for a species from 

 Espirito Santo, Brazil, was previously used (P. Z. S., 1894, p. 617) ^ 

 for a form from Surinam. I suggest the name santoensis for the 

 Brazilian form. 



Asphaera femorata (Jac.) seems to me the same as cJiontalensis 

 (Jac). 



In explanation I would add that the late Mr. Jacoby 

 in his working current catalogue (since 1885), for some reason or 

 other, had not entered such of the ''Biologia species" as were 

 published after the date of Duvivier's list, so that all the names he 

 used in the Biologia were not before him when he wrote in 1905. 



NOTES ON SYNTOMASPIS DRU PA RUM BOH. 

 AND ICHNEUMON NIGRICORNIS BERGER 



BY C. R. CROSBY. ITHACA, N.Y. 



In Bulletin 265 of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station,, 

 April, 1909, 1 gave an account of the habits of the Apple-seed Chalcis, 

 {Syntomaspis drupariim Boh.), and a resume of the literature known 

 to me at that time. Since then three more important papers have, 

 come to my notice. 



December, 1912 



