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BRACHISTINI. 
Brachista Haliday. 
1851. Brachista. Haliday (Walker.) Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) VII p. 
211; nop 8 
1856. Brachysticha. Förster. Hym. Stud. II. p. 88. 
1888. Trichogramma. Ashmead. Canad. Entom. XX p. 107 no. 19. 
1894. Brachysticha. Ashmead. Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. XVII p. 172. 
1897. Brachista. Aurivillius. Ent. Tidsskrift p. 251. 
1878. — DallasTorre> Cat. TIym. V. 5. 
1904. Brachystira. Mayr. Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesell. Wien. 54 B. p. 590. 
1904. Brachista. Ashmead. Classification p. 359. 
1909. — Schmiedeknecht. Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 97. p. 550. 
With regards this genus, great diversity of opinion 
appears to be found amongst the various authors. 
Förster states (1. c. p. 80) that the genus is Brachista 
- Walker, but his reasons for ascribing it to Walker are 
not given. Further he changes the name to Brachysticha, 
because Wesmael has formed another similar name Bra- 
chistes. Further according to Forster’s opinion, the genus 
is very easy to recognize. Schmiedeknecht does not at 
all mention it, however, in his book of 1907; Ashmead 
mentions the genus, but this is most probably because 
he knows the genus from America; under all circumstan- 
ecsuilersiatesim Wis table of genera: .... .. Brachista. 
Haliday. (Type unknown.) 
Wolff writes at last p. 563: Forsters Angaben tiber die 
(rein amerikanische) Gattung Brachysticha...... , thus 
does neither he regard it as belonging to Europe. 
No remarks can be made about Ashmead, but both 
Wolff and Schmiedeknecht should have known otherwise, 
because in 1904 Gustav Mayr published in Verh. Zool. 
bot. Gesell. Wien 54 B. p. 584 a description of the genus 
from Forsters own specimens. 
Mayr states here, that in 1856 Forster created several 
new genera, without mentioning anything about the 
species, for which reason Mayr, who is now in possession 
