THE TRIBE CHALCIDIXI — BURKS 351 



axillae with a few long setae; metacoxae long, outer dorsal surface 

 glabrous, elsewhere minutely shagreened; metafemora (fig. 12, n), 

 elongate, not flattened on outer surface, densely covered with short, 

 white pubescence, ventral margin with 15 to 17 teeth, inner tooth 

 Avanting; metatibia with long, acute apical spine. 



Propodeum almost smooth, vague mesal and apical carinae present, 

 no lateral projections present, spiracular openings vertical; petiole 

 four-fifths the length of metacoxa, glabrous, slightly larger at apex 

 than at base, basal lamina narrower on dorsal than ventral side; 

 gaster slightly shorter than metafemur; cerci oval, large, located 

 slightly nearer posterior than anterior margin of epipygium. 



Male : 3 mm. Antennal scape (fig. 9, 6-) broad only at apex; meta- 

 femur without an inner tooth, outer ventral margin Avith 12 or 13 

 teeth; petiole five-sixths the length of metacoxa; gaster equal in 

 length to metafemur. 



Type locality. — Cuba. 



Types.— Rolotyi^e, female, 1795.1; allotype, male, 1795.2: Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Host.—Meteonis sp. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). 



Distrihutwn.—T^^AS : Brownsville, ex Meteorus sp., E. G. Smyth, 

 3 males, June 23, 1914, ex Meteorus sp., K. A. Vickery, 1 female, 

 December 17, 1910, 2 females ; Cameron County, August 3, 1928, K. H. 

 Beamer, 1 female. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Sniicra ylyantca Ashmead, Can. Eut., vol. 13, p. 90, 1881.-Dalla Torre, Cata- 

 logus liymenopteroruin, vol. 5, p. 372, 1898. 

 This species is a synonym of Phasgonophora svlcafa West wood; 

 the type is in the U. S. National Museum. 



ClxaJcis wyrifex (Stjlzer), Abgek. Gesch. Ins., vol. 1. p. 191, 1776.-Wai>ker, 



Notes on Clialcidiae, p. 52, 1871.— Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, 



p. 55, 1872.— Dalla Torre, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 380, 1898. 



Walker, Cresson, and Dalla Torre list this European species as 



occurring in North America, but material of this species from 



Europe proves to be different from all our species. 



UNPLACED SPECIES 



Smicra himaculata Streckek, Appendix SS to Report of the Chief of Army Engi- 

 neers for 1878, p. 1848, 1879.— Bradley, Ent. News, vol. 14, p. 26, 1903. 



I have not succeeded in locating the type of this species; it is not 

 in the Strecker collection at the Field Museum, in Chicago, 111. This 

 species may either be a member of the genus Ghalcis or belong to the 

 scantliostigma group of SpUochalcis. 



