Denmark. 
One female taken near 
the little pond West of 
Fuglesangsøen in  Dyre- 
haven. 
Date: °/, 1906. 
Type in Zoological Mu- 
seum, København. 
I take it for granted that 
Brachista pallida Ashmead 
(Some Hym. Parasites from 
Dragon fly Eggs. (Ento- 
mol. News. Philad. XI. 
1900. p. 616) reared from 
eggs of Lestes sp. Lake 
Eorest, hs US! “A. By 

Fig. 20. Brachista similis Kryger. 
A Forewing. B Foreleg C. Middleley. 
D Hindleg. E Antenna. 
Professor James G. Needham) can in no ways belong 
to the genus Brachista Haliday if one is to judge from 
Ashmead’s description only. But these lines might per- 
haps cause a closer comparison to be undertaken between 
Ashmead’s types and the description of the European 
species, so that it could be decided whether it is necessary 
to found a new genus for the non-European species. 
Asynacta Forster. 
1834. Eulophus. Nees. Hym. Ichn. aff. Mon. II. p. 183. 
1856. Asynacta Förster. Hym. Stud. II. p. 87. 
1897. = Aurivillius. Ent. Tidsskrift. p. 251. 
1898. — Dalla Torre. Cat. Hym. V. p. 4. 
1904. — Ashmead. Classification p. 359. 
1904. = Mayr. Verh. Zool. bot. Gesell. Wien. 54 B. p. 589 — 92. 
1909. — Schmiedeknecht. Gen. Insect. fasc. 97. 
Nor seems this genus to have been found again after 
its having been described. At any rate none of the later 
authors are mentioning the species more closely. They 
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