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thought to be new and was arranged with Ittys Girault. How- 

 ever, I am now convinced that it either belongs to Abbella 

 Girault, or else is generically new ; it agrees with Abbella 

 excepting in wing ciliation, the fore wings normally densely 

 ciliate with moderately long marginal cilia, and in the shape 

 of the body, the abdomen being long and pointed. For the 

 present I leave it with this genus but may transfer it to 

 another subfamily if in my opinion the present subfamilies 

 are good ; it will then form a new genus. 



The identity of this species did not become known to me 

 until several months after I had captured the first specimen 

 of it when I positively identified it with i^Trichogramma) 

 Brachysticha acuminata (Ashmead), the original specimens 

 of which, together with another, larger series, were found in 

 the National Museum collections. The species was errone- 

 ously described as a Trichogramma by Ashmead (1888) 

 exactly in this manner : 



" (19) Trichogramma acuminatum n. sp. 



Female, length .03 ; male, .02 inch. Honey-yellow ; eyes purplish- 

 brown ; legs pale or white. The abdomen in the female is acumi- 

 nate-ovate, about twice as long as the head and thorax combined, 

 with a lateral and a ventral row of five or six brown spots. In the 

 male the abdomen is obtuse behind, not longer than the head and 

 thorax combined. Antennae pilose. The wings are strongly ciliate, 

 the fore pair broadly rounded with a dusky blotch beneath the stigma, 

 the hind pair rather narrowed and pointed at apex. 



Described from two female and one male specimens, reared from a corn- 

 leaf, and probably parasitic on the eggs of some leaf miner." P. 107. 



In 1895 (Ashmead, 1894-1895), Ashmead referred the spe- 

 cies questionably to Brachysticha Foerster (= Brachista Hali- 

 day) when describing {Brachysticha) Lathromeris iidice (Ash- 

 mead); since, the species has remained in that genus but 

 does not belong there as has already been intimated. Some 

 years later Ashmead (1900) described a Brachista pallida 

 which I am nearly certain is the same species which we have 

 under consideration as the following account will show ; at 

 the least it is congeneric with ac2uninata and very similar to 

 it but there were some difficulties in accurately examining 

 the single tagmounted type oi pallida. 



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