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The original description of S. coxalis Cresson erroneously states 

 that the species is described from a male ; the type is a female. The 

 type of S. mrens Howard differs neither in color nor in structure from 

 the type of S. coxalis Cresson. 



This species may prove to be a synonym of Spilochalcis conjungens 

 (Walker). JSmicra conjungens was described from a single female 

 specimen from Mexico one year previous to the publication of the 

 description of Smicra coxalis Cresson. A specimen I had compared 

 with the type of the latter species was sent to the Museum National 

 d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris for comparison with Walker's type. Dr. 

 Lucien Berland kindly made a detailed study of the specimens and 

 informed me that they differed slightly in the sculpturing of the 

 propodeum and the shape of the metafemoral teeth. Neither of these 

 characters is, in itself, sufficient for specific distinction in this group. 

 I have, however, decided to use, for the present, the name concerning 

 the correctness of which I have no doubt, rather than employ one that 

 is somewhat questionable. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Distrihution. — Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, New 

 Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Virginia. 



SPILOCHALCIS FLAMMEOLA (Cresson) 



Smicra flammeola Ceesson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, pp. 37, 48, 1872. — 

 Cameron, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Hymenoptera, vol. 1, p. 84, 1884. — 

 HowAED, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. 5, p. 34, 1885.— Dalla Toree, 

 Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 377, 1898. — Schmiedeknecht, Genera 

 insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 34, 1909. — Cresson, The Cresson types of Hymenop- 

 tera, p. 75, 1916. 



Smicra flammula Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., vol. 17, p. 66, 1883. 



This species is most easily recognized by its very coarsely pitted 

 thorax, the toothlike anterolateral angles of the pronotum, and the 

 metafemur with a long, acute, outer basal tooth and no inner tooth. 



Description. — Bright red, with frons, anterior and mesolegs, dorsal 

 spot at base of outer surface of metafemur, and usually petiole, yel- 

 low ; venter of thorax black. 



Female: 7 mm. Antennal flagellum slender; scrobe cavity shallow, 

 carinate at ventral margin; interantennal projection with a small 

 anterior carina, this carina extending up into scrobe cavity almost 

 to anterior ocellus; frons deeply punctured just ventrad and laterad 

 of ocelli, a few vague carinae extending ventrolaterad from margins 

 of scrobe cavity; frons slightly produced ventrad of antennal bases; 

 frontal tentorial pits located just laterad of and slightly ventrad of 

 antennal bases; width of malar space slightly more than one-third 

 height of compound eye ; f rontogenal suture straight ; widths of com- 

 pound eyes slightly less than width of interocular space at level of 



