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metacoxae uniformly shagreened, outer surface with shallow pits 

 and short pubescence ; outer surface of metaf emora lightly shagreened 

 and sparsely covered with short pubescence, ventral margin with 17 to 

 20 teeth, basal one slightly larger; small, blunt inner tooth present. 



Propodeum shagreened, strongly carinate only laterad, a minute 

 tooth present at each posterolateral angle, spiracles curved laterad; 

 petiole two to two and one-half times as long as wide, surface sha- 

 greened, lateral carinae vague or wanting entirely; gaster slightlj^ 

 longer than metafemur ; eighth tergite sparsely setose ; spiracles oval, 

 almost round; cerci circular or slightly oval, placed near apex of 

 ninth tergite; penis valve short and narrow (fig. 14, k). 



Type locality. — Texas. 



Type. — 1658, U. S. National Museum, female. 



Hosts. — {?) Prodenia eridania Cramer (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) ; 

 Exema conspersa (Mannerheim) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) . 



Distribution. — Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virginia. 



SPILOCHALCIS SIDE (Walker) 



FiGUBEs 9, m; 14, I 



Smiera side Walkkk, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 1, vol. 2, p. 145, 1843. — Cbes- 

 SON, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 1, p. 228, 1862. 



Smiera side (Walker) Waxker, Notes on Chalcidiae, p. 51, 1871. — Ckesson, 

 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 55, 1872.— Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. 

 Ent. Bull. 5, p. 36, 1885. — Gbesson, Synopsis of the families and genera of 

 the Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico, p. 234, 1887. — Daixa Torre, 

 Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 381, 1898. — Schmiedeknecht, Genera 

 Insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 36, 1909. 



Smiera torvina Ceesson, Trans. Amer. Ent, Soc, vol. 4, pp. 36, 40, 191, 1872. — 

 Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. 5, p. 36, 1885. — Ashmead, Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 125, 1886. — Cresson, Synopsis of the families and 

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

 Daula Torre, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, P- 383, 1898. — Smith, Ann. 

 Rep. New Jersey State Board Agr., vol. 27, suppl., p. 554, 1900. — Schmiede- 

 KNECHT, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 36, 1909. — Cresson, The Cresson 

 types of Hymenoptera, p. 76, 1916. — Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr. Dept. Bull. 

 914, p. 1, 1920.— Hough, Virginia Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 259, p. 18, 1927. 



Spiloohalcis torvina (Cresson) Titus, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent Bull. 54, p. 39, 

 1905.— ViERECK, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 32, pp. 184, 221, 227, 1906.— Snow, 

 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 20, p. 129, 1907. — Smith, Ann. Rep. New Jersey 

 State Mus. for 1909, p. 649, 1910.— Viebeck, Connecticut Geol. and Nat. Hist. 

 Surv. BuU. 22, p. 527, 1916.— Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr. Dept. Bull. 914, 

 p. 11, 1920.— GiEAULT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 192, 1920.— Vickebt, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 27, p. 139, 1925. — Peicu and Armstrong, 

 Ann. Rep. Quebec Soc. Prot. Plants, No. 18, p. 104, 1926. — Muesebeck and 

 Dohanian, U. S. Dept. Agr. Dept. Bull. 1478, p. 19, 1927.— Luginbiix, U. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Techn. Bull. 34, p. 77, 1928.— Vickeby, U. S. Dept. Agr. Techn. 

 Bull. 138, p. 21, 1929.— Gillespie, Maine For. Serv. Bull. 7, p. 15, 1932.— Keifeb 

 and Jones, California Dept. Agr. Monthly Bull. 22, p. 388, 1933.— Doner, Ann. 

 Ent. Soc Amer., vol. 29, p. 234, 1936. 



