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Types. — Holotype, female, 1814.1 ; allotype, male, 1814.2 ; paratype, 

 1814.3, 1 female : Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Host — Catopsilia eubule (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). 



Distribution. — Georgia: Bainbridge, July 15, 1919, J. C. Bradley, 

 1 female; DeWitt, July 22, 1912, M. D. Leonard, 1 female. 



Cuba : 134, ex Catopsilia eubule, 2 females, 1 male (types) ; Guan- 

 tanamo, 1 male. 



Haiti : July 5, 1931, M. Kjslink, 1 female. 



Puerto Rico : Aibonito, July 14, 1914; 1 female; Arecibo, March 13, 

 1934, Anderson and Mills, 1 male; Ponce, August 19, 1932, Bofill and 

 Oakley, 1 male ; Santa Rita, 1915, 2 females. 



SPILOCHALCIS DORSATA (Cresson) 



FiQUBEs 8, ;■; 10, e; 12, c 



Smicra dorsata Ceesson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, pp. 37, 49, 192, 1872. — 

 Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. 5, p. 34, 1885. — Cresson, Synopsis of 

 the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico, 

 p. 233, 1887. — Dalla Toebb, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 376, 

 1898. — ScHMiEDEKNECHT, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 34, 1909. — Ceesson, 

 The Cresson types of Hymenoptera, p. 74, 1916. 



Spilochalois missouriensis Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. 5, pp. 6, 35, 

 1885. — Dalla Torre, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 385, 1898. — 

 SCHMIEDEKNECHT, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 40, 1909. 



Smicra missouriensis (Howard) Cresson, Synopsis of the families and genera 

 of the Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico, p. 234, 1887. 



This yellow, or red, and black species is most easily recognized by 

 its large compound eyes, the widely spaced apical projections of 

 the mesoscutellum, and the semiglobose metafemora with only four 

 outer ventral teeth, the basal one minute. 



Description. — Yellow or red with black markings ; mesopraescutum 

 except lateral and posterior margins, mesal margins of lobes of 

 mesoscutum, mesal halves of axillae, anterior margin of mesoscu- 

 tellum, apices of metacoxae, three small marks on outer side of meta- 

 femora, most or all of propodeum, and usually petiole, black; 

 markings of mesopraescutum vary considerably. 



Female: 5-6 mm. Apex of antennal scape not quite reaching 

 level of ventral margin of anterior ocellus; pedicel two-fifths and 

 ring segment one-fifth length of segment 4, 5 slightly shorter than 4 ; 

 segments 5 to 10 equal, 11 slightly shorter, 12 shorter than 11, 13 

 equal to 11; scrobe cavity deep, marginal carina vague except ven- 

 trally; interantennal projection provided with a thin anterior 

 lamina ; lateral carinae usually completely encircling compound eyes, 

 sometimes interrupted on vertex; frons scatteringly punctured ex- 

 cept dorsad of clypeus; frontal tentorial pits located at margins of 

 compound eyes at level of antennal bases; width of malar space 



