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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW TROPICAL 

 PACHYGASTRINvE. 



By Charles W. Johnson, 

 Boston Society of Natural History. 



In describing a species of Psephiocera from Jamaica, my attention 

 was called to two apparently new species, representing one Psephi- 

 ocera and one Chalcidomorphina from British Guiana. The above 

 genera by Dr. Enderlein cover these forms, while a paper by Dr. 

 Kertesz enables us positively to determine Cynipimorpha. With 

 the limited material at hand, it is with some misgivings that I 

 offer this paper, but the difficulty of obtaining smaller species from 

 that region is so great that years slip by and they remain unde- 

 scribed. For instance, the specimens at hand have been in my 

 possession over eighteen years. It is to be hoped that the following 

 bibliography and table of species will aid future workers. 



Cynipimorpha bilimeki Brauer. Fig. 1. 



C. bilimeki Brauer, Denkschr. der K. Akad., Wien, XLIV, 75, 1882; 

 Kertesz, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung., VI, 343, Tab. 6, Figs. 1,2, 1908. 

 In the latter paper Dr. K. Kertesz has carefully redescribed 

 Brauer's type and figured the antenna, thus enabling one to readily 

 identify this species which otherwise would have continued to 

 cause confusion among the closely related genera and species. I 

 herewith reproduce the figure given by Kertesz. The genus has 

 been emended to Cijnipomorpha by Enderlein, but the original 

 spelling will have to stand. 



Psephiocera Enderlein. 



Zoologischer Anzeiger, 1914, Band 43, p. 300. Type P. flavipes 

 Enderlein. 



Table of Species. 



1 . Tomentum forming lines on the disc of the thorax 3 



Tomentum covering the entire thorax 2 



2. Scutellum and part of the pleura with light tomentum (Mexico) 



minuta Will. 



Scutellum with black tomentum, pleura shining black without 



tomentum (S. Brazil) flavipes Enderl. 



