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of Försters collections, describes amongst others the genus 
Brachista, which is found in the collection in well pre- 
served specimens. Mayr, however, changes the name 
into Brachystira, as, according in his opinion, it is impos- 
sible to distinguish the two genera Asynacta,. and Bra- 
chysticha in Forsters collection by means of Walker’s de- 
scription. 
As Forster, however, distinctly states that he has cal- 
led the genus which has the long ovipositor Brachysticha 
and the other without ovipositor produced Asynacta, and 
even Mayr himself in his description states exactly the 
same, it would appear that the point was for once defi- 
nitely settled, and thus there was no reasons whatever for 
Mayr to make any alteration, since he quite agrees with 
Forster as to which is which. 
In my opinion there has been no cause whatever 
either for Förster or Mayr to make any alteration, and 
therefore I have taken the liberty to bring the name 
again in its original form, Brachista. 
According to Mayr’s description and my own obser- 
vations I can describe the genus as follows. 
Head short, width hardly visible if seen from above. 
Head wider than thorax, body short compressed, strong, 
with spread strong hairs, one and a half times as long 
as thorax and head together. Legs long, abundantly pro- 
vided with hairs on tarsi, very large claws, spurs on inter- 
mediate and posterior tibie very strong. 
Anterior wings long and broad longer than body, 
closely covered with long strong hairs almost over the 
whole surface, subcosta short, marginal vein long, radius 
short, stigma on basal half of wing, fringe short, longest 
at apical margin. The hairs on the surface of the wings 
distributed over the whole without any sign of regularity. 
Antenne seven jointed: scape, pedicellus, one anellus, 
one funiculus and three jointed club, 
