456 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Pentasmicra scisa (Walker). 



Smiera scisa Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), II., 1864, p. 192, c?. 



Smicra scisa Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 381. 



Brazil : Amazon. 



TETRASMICRA Ashmead, gen. nov. 



This genus is at once recognized by the hind femora being armed with four large 

 teeth and by the scutellum being emarginate or bidentate at apex. 



Tetrasmicea concitata (Walker). 



Smiera concitata Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), II., 1864, p. 183, 9. 

 Smicra concitata Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 375. 

 Brazil : Amazon region. 



Tetrasmicra croc at a (Walker). 

 (PlateXXXIL, Fig. 2.) 



Smiera crocata Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), II., 1864, p. 186^ 9. 

 Smicra crocata Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 375. 

 Brazil : Amazon region. 



Tetrasmicra destinata (Walker). 



Smiera destinata Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), II., 1864, p. 185, 9. 



Smicra destinata Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 376. 



Brazil. 



Tetrasmicra maculata (Fabricius). 



Chalcis maculata Fabricius, Mant. Ins., I., 1787, p. 273. — Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat., 

 Ed. 13% L, 1790, p. 274.— Ohver, Encyc. Method. Ins., V., 1790, p. 440.— 

 Fabricius, Ent. Syst., II., 1793, p. 198.— Fabricius, Syst. Piez., 1804, p. 162. 



Smiera maculata Walker, The Entom., I., 848, p. 287. 



Smicra maculata Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IV., 1872, p. 57. — Dalla Torre, C-at. 

 Hym., v., 1898, p. 378. 

 Brazil. 



TRISMICRA Ashmead, gen. nov. 



In this genus the hind femora are armed with three large, strong teeth ; other- 

 wise it is similar to Tetrasmicra. 



Trismicra contracta (Walker). 



Smiera contracta Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3), II., 1864, p. 184, d^. 

 Smicra contracta Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 375. 

 Brazil : Amazon region. 



