Transactions of the American Entomological Society Volume 34 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...more slender outer ray (Fig. 50). Petiole smooth and polished; ahdomen nearly round, the pygidinm not produced. One paratype has the apex of the petiole white. I take pleasure in dedicating this species to Dr. August Schletterer, who has done more to hring order out of chaos in this family than any other man. Hub.--Java. Type and two paratvpes in the collection of the Cornell University. One paratype in the author's collection. EV4NISCIS Szepligeti. (1903. Paettdevania Kieffer, misprint for Zeuxevania, Zeitschr. f. Hym. u. Dipt., iii, p. Ill, see corrigenda to volume.) 1903. Evanisau Szepligeti, Ann. Mus. Xat. Hung., i, pp. 375, 378. Type.--Evaniscus tibialis Szepligeti. In the Zeit. f. Hymen, u. Dipt., iii, p. Ill, Kieffer says that Evania trochanterata Cameron and E. marginata Cameron helong to Pseudevania (misprint for Zeuxevania, see Zeitsch. f. Hym. u. Dipt., vol. iii corrigenda). E. trochanterata Cameron is a true Evania, to which genus it must he returned forthwith., The wing venation as ftgured hy Cameron in the Biologia Centrali-Americana is that of Evania, and not of Zeuxevania or other genus. E. marginata is neither an Evania nor a Zeuxevania, hut is congeneric with the suhsequently descrihed Evaniscus tibialis of Szepligeti. Hence it should stand in the genus Evaniscm Szepligeti of which tibialis is the type. TABLE TO THE SPECIES OF EVANISCUS. 1. Propodeum coarsely reticulate (2). Propodeum rngosely punctured; furcula with parallel tynes. marginata Cameron, Guatemala. 2. Petiole curved, with six rather distinct longitndinal carina?, hetween these strongly aciculated; furcula with divergent tynes. tibialis Szepligeti, Veneznela. Petiole moderately tlender, finely and thickly pttuctured, on the sides somewhat aciculate rufithorax...