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Vol. 92 Washington: 1942 No. 3137 
DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW SPECIES OF CHALCIDOI- 
DEA, WITH NOTES ON A FEW DESCRIBED SPECIES 
(HYMENOPTERA) 
By A. B. Gawan 
Tuis paper contains descriptions of three new species of Brachy- 
meria (one from Panama, one from Mexico, and one from Java), a 
new species of Blepyrus from Louisiana, and a new species of Ooencyr- 
tus from Wyoming. All are described from reared material. The 
host record for the Ooencyrtus is especially interesting, since the 
species is parasitic in eggs of the Mormon cricket. Synonymical 
and distributional notes for a few described species also are included. 
Family CHALCIDIDAE 
Genus BRACHYMERIA Westwood 
BRACHYMERIA JAMBOLANA, new species 
Tumidicoxoides jambolana (Girault, MS.) RAMAKRISHNA AYyAR, Proc. 3d Ent. 
meeting Pusa, p. 328, 1919 (1920). 
Tumidicoxoides n. sp. (Girault) RAMAKRISHNA Ayyar, Spolia Zeylanica, vol. 18, 
part 2, p. 254, 1925. 
T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar published the Girault manuscript name 
Tumidicouoides jambolana without description, listing the species as 
a parasite of Carea subtilis at Coimbatore, India. Subsequently he 
republished the parasite record, this time listing the parasite as 
Tumidicoxoides n. sp. Girault. So far as known the name has never 
been validated. The specimens that formed the basis for the Girault 
manuscript name are in the United States National Museum and 
represent part of the material used for the present description. The 
genus Tumidicowoides was reduced to synonymy with Chalcis by 
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