THE TRIBE CHALCIDINI — BURKS 297 



RicO'i types, 51871, U. S. National Museum, and three specimens in 

 the collection of the Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station 

 collection, Eio Piedras, P. R. 



The type of /S. syrphidis Wolcott differs only in sex from the type 

 of S. hirtifemora, (Ashmead). 



Hosts. — Mesogramina polita (Say), Mesogramma polygonastyla 

 (Metcalf), PlatycMrus sp. (Diptera, Syrphidae) ; Apanteles mar- 

 giniventris (Cresson), Apanteles sp. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). 



Distribution. — District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, 

 Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. 



Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico. 



SPILOCHALCIS FEMORATA (Fabricius) 



FiGTiEEs 7, f, j; 8, r; 12, i 



Crabro fetnoratus Fabricius, Systema entomologiae . . ., p. 375, 1775; Species 

 insectorum . . ., vol. 1, p. 472, 1781 ; Mantissa insectorum . . ., vol. 1, 

 p. 297, 1787. — Olivier, EncyclopMie m^thodique, vol. 6, p. 518, 1791. 



Vespa femorata (Fabricius) Gmelin, Systema naturae, ed. 13, vol. 1, p. 2765, 

 1790. 



Smicra femorata (Fabricius) Kuby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., vol. 17, 

 p. 86, 1S83. 



Spilochalcis femorata (Fabricius) Howard, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., 

 vol. 25, p. 79, 1894 ; vol. 26, p. 130, 1897.— Dalla Torre, Catalogus liymen- 

 opterorum, vol. 5, p. 384, 1898. — ^Ashmead, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol. 

 48, p. 336, 1900 ; Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 326, 1904. — Schmiedeknecht, 

 Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 39, 1909. — Gowdey, Rept. Govt. Ent. Jamaica 

 Dept. Agr. for 1920, p. 25, 1921.— Wilson, Rept. Ent. Virgin Islands Agr. 

 Exp. Stat, for 1920, p. 21, 1921; St. Croix Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 3, p. 15, 

 1923; Virgin Islands Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 3, p. 5, 1923.— Wolcott, Journ. 

 Dept Agr. Puerto Rico, vol. 7, p. 61, 1923. — Winbixrn and Paenter, Journ. 

 Kansas Ent. Soc, vol. 5, p. 7, 1923. — Luginbill, U. S. Dept. Agr. Techn. 

 Bull. 34, p. 74, 1928 — Wolcott, Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, vol. 20, p. 

 536, 1936. 



Sphex punctata FABRicrus, Species insectorum . . ., vol. 1, p. 446, 1781. 



Chalcis punctata (Fabricius) Fabricius, Mantissa insectorum . . ., vol. 1, p. 

 272, 1787.— Gmeun, Systema naturae, ed. 13, vol. 1, p. 2743, 1790.— Olivieb, 

 Encyclopedia methodique, vol. 5, p. 438, 1790. — Fabricius, Entomologia 

 systematica . . ., vol. 2, p. 196, 1793 ; Systema piezatorum . . ., p. 161, 1804. 



Conura punctata (Fabricius) Sichel, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 5, pp. 

 360, 392, 1865. 



Smicra punctata (Fabricius) Walker, Notes on Chalcidiae, p. 51, 1871. — 

 Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 57, 1872. — Cameron, Biologia 

 Centrali-Americana, Hymenoptera, vol. 1, p. 87, 1884. — Howard, U. S. Dept 

 Agr. Bur. Ent Bull. 5, p. 35, 1885. 



Smiera punctata (Fabricius) Wolcott, Journ. Dept. Agr. Puerto Rico, vol. 7, 

 p. 63, 1923 ; Journ. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, vol. 20, p. 537, 1936. 



Chalcis fasciata Olivier, EncyclopMie methodique, vol. 5, p. 439, 1790. 



Smiera subpunctata Walker, Ent. Mag., vol. 2, p. 25, 1834 ; vol. 5, p. 469, 1838. — 

 Cresson. Proc. Ent Soc Philadelphia, vol. 1, p. 38, 1862. 



