140 L. MASNER 



Platygaster vestinus Walker, 1835 

 Platygaster vestinus Walker, 1835. Ent. Mag. 3 : 260. 



Platygaster vestinus Wk. ; Stood under this name in old B.M. Collection (Re- 

 arranged 1928, J.W.) ; Vestinus Wk. ; BMNH type-label. ($, BMNH). 



Unique. 



Platygaster xenarchus Walker, 1839 ~ see Synopeas Forst. 



Platygaster zethus Walker, 1839 

 Platygaster zethus Walker, 1839. Monogr. Chalcid. 2 : 78. 



BMNH type-label ; 1314a ; Brazil, Bahia, C. Darwin ; Platygaster zethus Walker 

 Type lost (J.F.P. VI. 1937) ; Zethus. (<J, BMNH). 



Type lost. Unique. 



SACTOGASTER Forster, 1856 



Sactogaster ventralis (Westwood, 1833) 

 Epimeces ventralis Westwood, 1833. Mag. nat. Hist. 6 : 421. 



Ventralis W. ; Epimeces. ($, OUM). 

 Unique. Flagellum broken off. 



SYNOPEAS Forster, 1856 



( = ECTADIUS Forster, 1856 ; POLYMECUS Forster, 1856) 



Synopeas abaris (Walker, 1835) 



Platygaster abaris W'alker, 1835. Ent. Mag. 3 : 230. 



Platygaster abaris Wk. ; Stood under this name in old B.M. Collection (Re- 

 arranged 1928, J.W.) ; Abaris Wk. ; BMNH type-label. {<$, BMNH). 

 Unique. 



Synopeas athenaeus (Walker, 1839) comb. n. 

 Platygaster athenaeus Walker, 1839. Monogr. Chalcid. 2 : 77. 



BMNH type-label ; 1315a ; Brazil, Bahia, C. Darwin ; Platygaster athenaeus 

 Walker Type lost (J.F.P., VI. 1937). ($, BMNH). 



Type lost from the label but most probably belonging to Synopeas Forst. 



Synopeas bifoveatus (Kieffer, 1912) 

 Amblyaspis bifoveatus Kieffer, 1912. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 15 : 79. 



88 ; Mahe, '08 Seychelles Exp. ; Amblyaspis bifoveatus J. J. Kieffer Type ; 

 blue label "Type" ; BMNH type-label ; Seychelles Islands, Percy Sladen Trust 

 Expedition 1913-170. ($, BMNH). 



Unique. 



