no. 237S. ASHMEAD'S PARASITIC CYNJPlDAfl WELD. 437 



described a Fiyitodes atricornis 4 , which, being the first included 

 species, must be the genotype. His subsequent designation in 1903, D 

 accepted by Rohwer and Fagan, of Figites quinquelineata Say as the 

 type is therefore erroneous. 



Examination of the type specimen of atricornis in the United Stales 

 National Museum (Cat. No. 23069) shows it to be a Trischiza as was 

 stated by Dalla Torre and Kieffer in 1902. 6 Figibodes Ashmead thus 

 becomes a synonym of TriscMza Foerster. 



Subfamily EUCOILINAE Dalla Torre. 

 Genus ZAMISCHUS Ashmead. 



Zamischus Ashmead, Froc. Ent., Soc. Wash., vol. 5, 1903, p. 221; Psyche, vol. 10, 

 pp. 60, 68. — Dalla Torre and Kieffer, Das Tierreieh, Lief. 24, 1910, pp. 101, 

 891.— Rohwer and Fagan. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, 1917, p. 378. 



Genotype. — Zamischus brasiliensis Ashmead. Monobasic. 



Propodeum produced posteriorly into a long tapering neck as long 

 as hind coxae and the abdomen attached to this by an abnormally 

 long slender petiole making a remarkably long' and slender body. 

 Petiole as long as rest of abdomen which is laterally compressed, 

 without ring of hair at base, ovipositor exserted. Antennae of fe- 

 male nearly as long as body, third segment smooth, slightly bent, 

 shorter than fourth, distal half of flagellum gradually broadened and 

 laterally compressed as in genus Peras Westwood instead of being 

 "gradually thickened toward apex " as stated by Ashmead. Venation 

 of fore wing reduced to basal and one longitudinal vein, costal and 

 margined cells confluent, areolet absent, surface sparsely pubescent, 

 margin ciliate. 



This remarkable genus is easily recognized in both the Ashmead 

 and Tierreieh keys. The origin of the abdomen and flattened anten- 

 nae relate it to certain of the Liopterinae. 



ZAMISCHUS BRASILIENSIS Ashmead. 



Zamischus brasiliensis Ashmead, Froc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 5, 1903, p. 221 (sine 

 desc.); Psyche, vol. 10, 1903, p. 60 (sino desc). — Dalla Torre and Kieffer 

 Das Tierreieh, Lief. 24, 1910, p. 101. 



Female. — Black; legs, except hind coxae, flagellum and base of 

 second tergite brownish. Head smooth and polished with scattered 

 setigerous punctures, cheeks not margined, broader than thorax; 

 seen from above elliptical, axial line three-fourths the transfacial; 

 seen from in front facial and transfacial about equal; interocular 

 space 0.44 transfacial and area 0.73 times as broad as high, malar 

 space 0.4 eye and with fine groove, antennae arising above middle 



« Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 23, p. 182. 



• Psyche, vol. 10, p. 11. 



• Wytsman's (.ien. Ins. Cynipidae, p. 8, footnote. 



