280 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL, MUSEUM vol.88 



Metadontia nigricornis (Fabricius) Ashmead, ibid. p. 453. 



Chalcis hracata Sanborn, Kept. Secy. Massachusetts Board Agr. for 1862, p. 

 172, 1863.— Paokakd, Guide to the study of insects .... p. 203, 1889. 



Smicra hracata (Sanborn) Ceesson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, pp. 37, 46, 

 1872.— Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. 5, p. 33, 1885.— Cresson, 

 Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America north 

 of Mexico, p. 233, 1887.— Smith, Geol. Surv. New Jersey, Catalogue of insects, 

 p. 37, 1890. — Daixa Toere, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 374, 1898. — 

 ScHMiEDEKNECHT, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 34, 1909. 



Spilochalcis bracata (Sanborn) Viereck, Connecticut Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. 

 Bull. 22, p. 527, 1916. 



Spilochalcis braccata Smith, Ann. Rept. New Jersey State Board Agr., vol. 27, 

 suppl., p. 553, 1900 ; Ann. Rept. New Jersey State Mus. for 1909, p. 649, 1910. 



Smicra bracata coaequalis Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, pp. 37, 46, 

 1872; Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America 

 north of Mexico, p. 233, 1887. — Dalla Toree, Catalogus hymenopterorum, 

 vol. 5, p. 374, 1898.— Cresson, The Cresson types of Hymenoptera, p. 74, 

 1916. 



Smicra Carolina Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, p. 183, 1887. — Daula 

 Torre, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 374, 1898. 



Diplodontia Carolina (Ashmead) Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 252, 

 1904. — Schmiedeknecht, Genera insectorum, fasc 97, p. 46, 1909. — Gahan 

 and Fagan, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 124, p. 47, 1923. 



Diplodontia secunda Girattlt, Descriptiones hymenopterorum chalcidoidicarum 

 variorum cum observationibus, No. 5, p. 10, 1917. — Leonakd, Cornell Univ. 

 Agr. Exp. Stat. Mem. 101, p. 976, 1928. 



Smicra maculata Walker (not Fabricius), Entomologist, vol. 1, p. 217, 1841. 



Chalcis maculata (Walker) Cresson, Proc Ent. Soc Philadelphia, vol. 1. p. 228, 

 1862. 



Smicra maculata (Walker) Walker, Notes on Chalcidiae, p. 51. 1871. — Cresson, 

 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 57, 1872.— Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. 

 Ent. Bull. 5, p. 35, 1885. — Cresson, Synopsis of the families and genera of 

 the Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico, p. 223, 1887. — Smith, Geol. 

 Surv. New Jersey, Catalogue of insects, p. 38, 1890. — Dalla Torre, Catalogus 

 hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 378, 1898. — Smith, Ann. Rept. New Jersey State 

 Board Agr.. vol. 27, suppl., p. 554, 1900; Ann. Rept. New Jersey State Mus. 

 for 1909, p. 649, 1910. 



This large yellow and black species is most easily recognized by its 

 densely pubescent propodeum with a pair of conspicuous lateral 

 projections, the acute anterodorsal angles of the pronotum, and the 

 metafemur having a few blunt, widely spaced teeth. 



Description. — Yellow with black marks; vertex, all of mesoprae- 

 scutum except lateral margins, mesal half or two-thirds of lobes of 

 mesoscutum, mesal angles of axillae, mesal longitudinal mark on 

 mesoscutellum, usually ventral half of metepisternum, all but outer 

 basal part of metacoxae, central and ventral spots on metafemur, 

 most or all of propodeum, petiole usually, and most of abdomen, 

 black. 



Female : 6-9 mm. Antennal scape stout, curved mesad near base, 

 slightly constricted near apex, apex reaching to level of dorsal margin 



