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Grandi (G.). Contributo alia Conoscenza degli Agaonini (Hymenoptera, 

 Chalcididae) dell' America. Agaonini di Costarica. [A Contribu- 

 tion to the Knowledge of the Agaoninae of America. Agaoninae of 

 Costa Rica. J — Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agrar. R. Scuola Sup. Agric.. 

 P&rtici xiii, 1919, pp. 15-56, 13 figs. 



In this first contribution relating to American Agaoninae, of which 

 only six species have been hitherto known, the following six new 

 species from Costa Rica are described and figured : Blastophaga agailari 

 from Ficus lapaihifolia ; B. estherae from F. costaricana ; B. tristani 

 and B. silvestrii from F. padifolia ; B. tonduzi from F. hemshyana ; 

 B. jimenezi from F. jimenezi. For the first-named the new sub-genus 

 Julianella has been erected, and the other five are placed in the new 

 sub-genus Valentinella. 



LuTZ (A.) & DA Costa Lima (A.). Contribuicao para Estudo das 



Tripaneidas (Moscas de Frutas) brazileiras. [A Contribution to 



the Study of Brazilian Trypetidae.] — Metn. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, 



Rio de Janeiro, x, no. 1, 1918, pp. 4-16, 2 plates. [With a 



summary in English.] [Received 12th June 1919.] 



The collections of fruit-flies in the Oswaldo Cruz Institute and in 



the Natural History Museum of S. Paulo are discussed and some new 



species and varieties are described. The most important is Anastrepha 



fraterculus, Wied., which occurs in Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Peru, 



Brazil and Paraguay. It is very injurious to guava and peach, and 



also attacks Passiflora quadrangular is and Diospyrus kaki. This 



species is very variable and several forms described as new species are 



thought to be probably only varieties of it, e.g. : -A. suspensa, Lw., 



A. ludens, Lw., A. hamata, Lw., A. integra, Lw., A. consobritui, Lw., 



A. pseado-parallda, Lw., A. obliqua, Macq., and perhaps A. peruviana, 



Towns., while even A. parallela, Wied., though apparently differing 



in size and venation, is connected by intermediate forms. The only 



specimen not connected with the others by intermediate forms is 



described under the name of A. fenestrata ; it is found in the Amazon 



region and may be either a new species or a rather aberrant variety. 



A. serpenthm, Wied., is another indigenous species ; it attacks 

 Mammea americana, Sapot-a achras, Lucuma cainito and ,Mimusops 

 coriacea. Of the genus Hexachaeta one species, H. eximia, Wied., was 

 observed near Rio de Janeiro. The genus Plugiotorua, Lw., is dis- 

 cussed, and a key is given to the two known Brazilian species, 

 P. obliqua, Lw., and P. biseriata, Lw., and to three others here described, 

 P. rudolphi, P. jonasi and P. trivittata. The early stages of the.se flies 

 are found in galls of Composites of the genus Vernonia. A list is given 

 of the genus Apyrgota Hendel (1913), sub-family Pyrgottmae, ynd 

 a new species, A. personata, that might be mistaken for a Trypela, is 

 described. A list of species of the genus Anastrepha with the 

 synonymy and literature is also appended. 



Bezzi (M.). Descoberta de uma nova Mosca das Fructas no Brazil. 



[Discovery of a new Fruit-fly in Brazil.] — Chacaras e Quintaes, S. 

 Paulo, xix, no. 5, May 1919,' pp. 372-374, 2 figs. 



The new Brazilian fruit-fly, .inastrepha bistrigatn [see this Review, 

 Ser. A, vii, p. 268] was taken from the fruits of " araca " [Psidium 



