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three larger ones (fig. 12, g), apical one vaguely divided; inner tooth 

 large, acute. 



Propodeum with a pair of large lateral teeth (as in fig. 13, a), spi- 

 racular openings vertical; petiole glabrous, two and one-quarter 

 times as long as wide, lateral carinae wanting; gaster strongly flat- 

 tened, all segments of gaster with sparse lateral setae; spiracular 

 opening of eighth tergite rounded, but anterior margin straight; 

 cerci oval, located near anterior margin of epipygium; ovipositor 

 sheaths densely covered with short, stiff setae. 



Male, — ^Unknown. 



Type locality. — Cuba. 



Type. — I have not located the type of this species, and it may be 

 lost. As this type may, however, yet be found, it seems best not to 

 designate a neotype. I have followed Cresson's determination ^' for 

 the species. 



Host. — ^Unknown. 



Distribution. — Florida : Palm Beach, C. F. Baker, 1 female. 



Cuba : 2 females. 



SPILOCHALCIS COXALIS (Cresson) 



Smicra coxalis Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, pp. 36, 45, 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 Torre, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 375, 1898. — 

 ScHMiEDEKNEcHT, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 34, 1909. — Cresson, The 

 Cresson types of Hymenoptera, p. 74, 1916. 



Spilochalcis virens Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. 5, pp. 6, 36, 1885. — 

 Daixa Torre, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 385, 1898. — Schmiede- 

 KNECHT, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 41, 1909. 



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

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



This large, compact species is most easily recognized by the densely 

 pubescent propodeum without lateral teeth, the compressed abdomen, 

 and the metafemora with the ventral margin provided with several 

 minute, widely spaced teeth; both mandibles have three teeth. 



Description. — Yellow or red with black markings; vertex, all but 

 lateral margins of mesopraescutum, all but lateral margins of lobes 

 of mesoscutum, mesal two-thirds of axillae, broad longitudinal mark 

 on mesoscutellum, usually wide inner and outer stripes on metacoxae, 

 oblique stripe on outer surface of metafemur near base, transverse 

 band at base of propodeum, most of petiole, and transverse dorsal 

 marks on gaster, black. 



Female: 7.5-9 mm. Apex of antennal scape exceeding level of 

 posterior ocelli, pedicel two-fifths and ring segment one-eighth length 

 of segment 4, segments 4 and 5 almost equal, 6 to 10 progressively 



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



