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Nasonia ftrmcorms Johnston, Sci. and Industry, Melbourno, vol. 2, 1920, p. 310. 

 Nasonia brevicornis Johnston and Bancroft, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queens!., vol. 32, 



1921, p. 24. 

 Nasonia brevicornis Johnston and Tiegs, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., vol. 33, 



1921, pp. 99-102, 104, 111-118, and 126, pi. 10, figs. 20-22. 

 Nasonia brevicornis Austen and Hegh, Pub. Imp. Bureau Ent., 1922, p. 134. 

 Nasonia brevicornis Johnston, Trans, and Proc. Roy. Soc. So. Australia, vol. 47, 



1923, p. 205. 

 Mormoniella brevicornis Gahan and Fagan, Bull. 124, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1923, p. 



91 and 93. 

 Mormoniella brevicornis Parker, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., vol. 93, 1924, p. 309, fig. 



142. 

 Mormoniella brevicornis Timberlake, Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, vol. 5, 1924, p. 421. 

 Mormoniella, species Hardy, Queensl. Agric. Jour., 1924, p. 349; 1925, p. 347. 



Brues in 1910 and Kurdjumov in 1913 pointed out that Nasonia 

 Ashmead and Mormoniella Ashmead were synonyms with the same 

 species as genotype. The type species has usually been referred to 

 as Nasonia brevicornis Ashmead and has been recorded from many 

 parts of the world and much written about its habits and biology. 



T. Harvey Johnston in 1923 doubtfully suggested that N. brevicornis 

 Ashmead and Pteroraalus abnormis Boheman were the same species. 

 A recent letter from G. H. Hardy of the University of Queensland, 

 Brisbane, Australia, requested an opinion from the writer regarding 

 this synonymy. A careful comparison of specimens with Boheman's 

 description and figures was accordingly made with the result that 

 they were found to agree veiy well. Boheman originally recorded 

 his species from Europe as probably parasitic upon the puparium of 

 a sarcophagid. Nasonia brevicornis has been recorded from Europe 

 and specimens reared by H. L. Parker from puparia of Sarcophaga, 

 species at Hyeres, France, have been compared with Ashmead's types 

 by the writer and found to agree in every way. In view of this 

 agreement as to host and general habitat as well as description, the 

 writer became convinced that brevicornis Ashmead and abnormis 

 Boheman were the same species. 



This fact was mentioned in a letter to my good friend Dr. James 

 Waterston, of the British Museum, who informed me of his agree- 

 ment with the conclusion in so far as it went, but who added the 

 interesting information that Pieromalus abnormis was not the oldest 

 name for the species since Pieromalus vitripennis Walker, the type of 

 which was still in good condition in the British Museum, was identical. 

 Waterston further stated that he had determined the species from 

 specimens in the Bagnall collection reared from a puparium of 

 Stenopteryx found in a house martin's nest in England and that he 

 had seejj specimens of the species from various points in Europe, 

 South Africa, Australia, Palestine, and Korea. ^ Timberlake has 



' Doctor Waterston's records and conclusions as to synonymj' nre published here at his own sugsestion. 



