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Hosts. — Strymon melinus (Hiibner), Strymon cecrops (Fabricius), 

 Thecla sp. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). 



Distribution. — Arizona, Arkansas, California, District of Columbia, 

 Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennes- 

 see, Texas, Virginia. 



Guatemala, Nicaragua, Trinidad, B. W. I. 



Genus SPILOCHALCIS Thomson 



Chalcis Fabricius, Mantissa insectorum . . ., vol. 1, p. 272, 1787 (in part). — 

 Westwood, An introduction to the modern classification of insects, p. 65, 

 1840.— Packard, Guide to tlie study of insects . . ., p. 203, 1872. 



Smiera Spinola, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., vol. 17, p. 147, 1811 (in part). — Walkeb, 

 Ent. Mag., vol. 2, p. 20, 1835. 



Smiera Spinola, Mag. Zool., vol. 7, p. 180, 1837 (in part). — Walkee, Notes on 

 Chalcidiae, p. 40, 1871.— Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 35, 1872; 

 Biologia Ceutrali-Americana, Hymenoptera, vol. 1, p. 78, 1883. 



Conura, "Conut-ae smicriformes," "Conurae chalcidiformes" * Sichel, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. France, ser. 4, vol. 5, p. 347, 1865. 



Phasganophora ''Phasganopliorae smicriformes"^ Sichel, Hid. p. 348. 



Spilochalds Thomson, Hymenoptera Scandinaviae, vol. 4, p. 15, 1875. — Kieby, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., vol. 17, p. 55, 1883. — Howard, U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. 5, p. 3, 1885 ; Ent. Amer., vol. 1, p. 215, 1886.— Cbesson, 

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

 of Mexico, p. 67, 1887. — Ashmead, Ent. Amer., vol. 4, p. 87, 1888. — Dat.la 

 Torre, Catalogus hymenopterorum, vol. 5, p. 384, 1898. — Ashmead, Mem. 

 Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 250, 1904. — Schmiedeknecht, Genera insectorum, 

 fasc. 97, p. 30, 1909.— Viereck, Connecticut Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 

 22, p. 527, 1916.— Gahan and Fagan, U. S. Nat. Mus. BuU. 124, p. 135, 1923.— 

 Mani, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 37, p. 251, 1935. (Genotype, Chalcis xantho- 

 stigma Dalman.) 



Spilosmicra Cameron, Trans. Amer. Ent. S-oc, vol. 35, p. 422, 1910. 



Diplodontia Ashmead, Ent. Amer., vol. 4, p. 87, 1888. — Dalla Torre, Catalogus 

 hymenopterorum, vol 5, p. 394, 1898. — Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 

 1, p. 252, 1904. — Schmiedeknecht, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 32, 1909. — 

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



Eustypiura Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 251, 1904. — Schmiede- 

 knecht, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 30, 1909. — Gahan and Fagan, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 124, p. 64, 1923. 



Enneasmicra Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 252, 1904. — Schmiede- 

 knecht, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 31, 1909. — Gahan and Fagan, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. BuU. 124, p. 51, 1923. 



Octosmiera Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 252, 1904. — Schmiede- 

 knecht, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 31, 1909. — Gahan and Fagan, U. S. 

 Nat Mus. Bull. 124, p. 98, 1923. 



Heptasmiera Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 252, 1904. — Schmiede- 

 knecht, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 31, 1909. — Gahan and Fagan, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 124, p. 70, 1923. 



Hexasmiera Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 252, 1904. — Schmiedb- 

 KNECHT, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 32, 1909. — Gahan and Fagan, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 124, p. 71, 1923. 



• These names have priority over Spilochalcis but are not binomial. 



