. Synopsis of American wasps [microform] : solitary wasps. Wasps; Wasps; Hymenoptera; Guèpes; Guèpes; Hyménoptères. HYMENOPTEHA OF AMERICA. [part I. Oen. TRIMERIA Sadss.' Ay^tennie clubbed, lenglhened ; the last articles very indistinct. Lip not extensile, tongue shaped, billd. Labial palpi composed of three articles; maxillary apparently of none. Mandibles tolerably sharp. Abdominal segments constricted at their base ; not retractile. 1. T. americaiia Sauss. Eriniiys americatid Sadss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 3(1 ser. I, Bull, xx, 1853.â Trimeria americana Sacss. Vespides, III, 1854, 81, PI. iv
. Synopsis of American wasps [microform] : solitary wasps. Wasps; Wasps; Hymenoptera; Guèpes; Guèpes; Hyménoptères. HYMENOPTEHA OF AMERICA. [part I. Oen. TRIMERIA Sadss.' Ay^tennie clubbed, lenglhened ; the last articles very indistinct. Lip not extensile, tongue shaped, billd. Labial palpi composed of three articles; maxillary apparently of none. Mandibles tolerably sharp. Abdominal segments constricted at their base ; not retractile. 1. T. americaiia Sauss. Eriniiys americatid Sadss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 3(1 ser. I, Bull, xx, 1853.â Trimeria americana Sacss. Vespides, III, 1854, 81, PI. iv, fig. 2, $. Hab. Brazil. Gen. MASARIS Fab. A7itennae of % long, of 9 short, composed of twelve articles, of which the five last are soldered into a single bare mass (leaving but eight articles appitrcn y. Articles 4-7 long in the males, short in the females, and incompletely soldered; the terminal mass (8th article) forming an oval club in the male, variable among the females. Lij) extensile; the tongue bifid, inclosed in a contractile sheath, in the form of a lamina, placed edgewise: labial palpi .; Jaics short; maxillary palpi rudimentary. 3Iandibles short, arcuate, bidentate. Clypeus notched like the arc of a circle. Metathorax flattened behind (bispinose). Abdomen flattened beneath, the segments contracted at the base, the third and following not retractile into the second; the abdomen equally wide and rounded at tip ia I'.ic 9; lengthened in the %, attenuated toward the end, bifid ( ' v, â .ams, and seg- ments 2-3 armed beneath with a salient process. ' I at first named tliis genus En'nnj/s in commemoration of a discussion upon the antennfe of Musaris which for a long time occupied the Entomo- logical Society of France (see toe. cit.); but finding this name already employed, I chanced it to Trimeria, wliich seems scarcely hotter, as there are already two genera Trimera. Nevertheless I think it better to retain the new name, since it is not identical w
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