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StiidioN on file \orlli Ainerioaii C'lIAIXIDID-K, with rte- 

 Mfi-iptioiiM of now spt'oios, chiefly from Florida. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



Jacksonville, Fla. 



In the following pages 1 continue my studies on this ftunily, give 

 synonymical and other notes on various species, describe the new 

 forms brought to my notice and correct many errors made in my 

 earlier papers on the subject, all of which I hope will be found of 

 interest and value to the student. 



Subfamily Chalcidin^. 

 $!»MICRA Spinola. 



1. Sniiora fiavopicta Cress. 



Two s|)ecimens of this si)ecies, which was originally described from 

 Cuba, were taken on oak shrubs last summer ; it is therefore to be 

 added to our fauTui. 



2. Sniicra ineudica Cress. 



This Mexican species was also taken here last summer and should 

 therefore be added to our fauna. 



3. Sniicra inoiif ana n. sp.— '^ Length .25 inch. This species agrees in 

 color and markings exactly with Smicra ambigua Cress., a Mexican species, ex- 

 cepting as follows: In place of "nunierons minute black teeth" there are but six, 

 the four middle ones being very long and large ; the petiole of abdomen is black ; 

 the first abdominal segment and second, excepting along the basal suture, and 

 oblong lateral blotches at tip of third, fourth and nearly the whole of the fifth 

 segments, lemon-yellow. On the metatliorax there are two deep, transverse 

 fovese separated only by a carina. The sculpture is very coar.se. 



iJ,,^._A^heville, N. C. 



This interesting species was captured early one morning in October, 

 while looking for cynipidous galls, resting on a leaf of the white 

 oak; it had evidently been numbed by the frost the night previous, 

 for I ca[)turcd it in my fingers. 



L Sniicra Carolina n. sp.— % Length .:?.'> inch. Head lemonyellow. an- 

 tcnnal groove and vertex, and space back of head, antennse, excepting scape at 

 base and a stripe beneath, and tips of mandibles, black. Collar, excepting hu- 

 meral angles posteriorly, along i)arapsidal sutures, triangular blotch at base of 

 wings, base of scapula\ three small spots beneath wings, anterior edge of meso- 

 pleune, metapleune, spot on metatliorax on eacli side of petiole, scutellum, ex- 



