THE TRIBE CHALCIDINI — BURKS 283 



SPILOCHALCIS LANIERI (Gnerin) 

 FiQUBE 12, g 



Chalcis lasnierii Gxjerin, Iconographie du Regne animal de G. Cuvier . . ., vol. 



1, p. 412, 1845.— Cresson, Proe. Eiit. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 1, p. 228, 1862. 

 Chalcis lanieri Guerin, in de la Sagra's Historia fisica, politica y natural de 



la isla de Cuba, vol. 7, p. 735, 1857. — Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. 



Bull. 5, p. 36, 1885. 

 Smicra lanieri (Gu6rin) Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 4, p. 91, 



1865. — Walker, Notes on Chalcidiae, p. 51, 1871. — Cresson, Trans. Amer. 



Ent. Soc, vol. 4, pp. 37, 48, 1878. — Dalla Torre, Catalogus hymenopterorum, 



vol. 5, p. 378, 1898.— AsHMEAD, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol. 48, p. 337, 1900.— 



Schmiedeknecht, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 35, 1909. 

 Spilochalcis lanieri (Guerin) Gahan, Mem. Soc. Poey, Univ. Habaua, vol. 8, p. 



131, 1984. 



This species may be recognized at once by its dark brown wings, 

 which retain a quite complete representation of the venation, and the 

 entirely black metafemora. Structurally this species is almost inden- 

 tical with Spilochalcis nigHcornis (Fabricius). 



Description. — Black, with bright scarlet markings; forelegs and 

 mesolegs, mandibles, narrow stripe surrounding compound eyes, meso- 

 dorsal area and anterolateral margins of pronotum, lateral margins 

 of mesopraescutum, entire mesoscutellum, metatibia, and basal seg- 

 ments of gaster, scarlet. 



Female: 8 mm. Apex of antennal scape not quite reaching level 

 of dorsal margin of anterior ocellus, pedicel one-fourth and ring seg- 

 ment one-sixth length of segment 4, segments 4 to 8 equal in length, 

 9 to 10 slightly shorter, last three combined slightly longer than seg- 

 ment 4; width of malar space one-third height of compound eye; 

 f rontogenal suture slightly curved ; left mandible with two teeth, right 

 with three; combined widths of compound eyes slightly less than 

 width of interocular space at level of antennal bases; diameter of 

 posterior ocellus five-ninths interocellar space; a carina extending 

 completely around posterior margin of head. 



Dorsum of thorax deeply punctured, narrow area at anterior margin 

 of metepisternum not punctured, but minutely reticulated; setae 

 long, coarse; anterolateral angles of pronotum acutely produced, 

 toothlike, carina of anterior dorsal margin interrupted on mesal one- 

 half; prepectus not quite reaching tegula; hind wings with five 

 hamuli; mesoscutellum with a slight longitudinal mesal depression 

 near base, apex with a minute lamina ; metepisternum not punctured 

 at posterior margin, ventral margin provided with a row of large, 

 contiguous punctures, rest of area covered with smaller punctures, 

 spaces between them glabrous; metacoxae glabrous; metafemora 

 glabrous, outer surface sparsely covered by long setae, teeth of ventral 

 margin quite variable: one to four minute basal teeth, followed by 



