298 HYMENOPTERA OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO 



Type: Idris flavicornis Foerster. By monotypy. 

 Acoloides Howard, 1890. Insect Life 2: 269. Syn. by Masner, 1961. Acta 



Soc. Ent. Cechosl. 58: 163. 

 *Megacolus Priesner, 1951. Inst. Fouad I du Desert Bui. 1: 121. 



Type: Megacolus desertoruin Priesner. By monotypy and 

 orig. desig. 

 *Philoplane8 Muesebeck and Walkley, 1956. U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 105: 



384. N. name for Megacolus Priesner, preocc. 

 Taxonomy: Masner, 1961, loc. cit. supra, pp. 163-166. 



saitidis (Howard). Pa., Ariz. Host: Phidippus opifex (McCook). 



seminiger (Ashmead). Nebr. 



Genus THORON Haliday, p. 696 



*inetallicus Haliday. Europe; Mass. 



Thoron metallicus Haliday, 1830. Ent. Mag. 1: 272. ?. 



pallipes Ashmead. Transf . to Paridris Kieffer, p. 704. 



Genus SCELIO Latreille, pp. 702-703 



Taxonomy: Nixon, 1958. Roy. Ent. Soc, London Trans. 110: 303-318 



(revision of African species). 

 Biology: Greathead, 1963. Roy. Ent. Soc, London Trans. 114: 439-442. 



bisulcus (Ashmead). Hosts: Melanoplus sip., M. differ entialis (Thomas). 



Scelio striaticollis Brues, 1906. N. syn. (teste C. F. W. Muesebeck on 



comparison of types) . 

 Biology: Lanham and Evans, 1958. Pan-Pacific Ent. 34: 213-214.— Lan- 



ham and Evans, 1960. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Bui. 55: 84-86 (pho- 



resy) . 



striaticollis Bvues. Syn. of bisulcus (Ashmead). 



Genus OPISTHACANTHA Ashmead, p. 703 



Protrimorus Kieffer, 1908. Transf. from Telenominae and made syn. of 

 Opisthacantha by Masner, 1964. Acta Soc. Ent. Cechosl. 61: 140. 



americana (Ashmead). Transf. from Protrimorus Kieffer, p. 690, by Masner, 



1964. Acta Soc Ent. Cechosl. 61: 141. 



Genus PARIDRIS KiefFer, p. 704 



brevipennis Fouts. Calif. 



pallipes (Ashmead), n. comb. Transf. from Thoron Haliday, p. 696 (teste L. 

 Masner). 



*Genus CALOTELEA Westwood 



( = Cerafofe/e/a Kieffer, p. 705) 



Calotelea Westwood, 1837. In Hope, Ent. Soc. London Trans. 2: 55. 



Type: Calotelea aurantea Hope. By monotypy. 

 *Caloteleia Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bui. 45: 209, 210, 212. 



Emendation. 

 Ceratoteleia Kieffer, 1908. Syn. by Masner, 1965. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Bui., Ent. Sup. 1: 69. 

 Prosanteris Kieffer, 1908. Syn. with Ceratoteleia by Muesebeck, 1958, 



Sup. 1, p. 93. 

 *l>leuroteleia Kieffer, 1910. Ent. Soc. France Bui. 1910: 293. Syn. by 



Masner, 1965, loc. cit. supra, p. 69. 



Type: Npuroteleia rujfa Kieffer. By orig. desig. 

 *Lamproteleia Kieffer, 1910, loc. cit. supra, p. 293. Syn. by Masner, 



1965, loc. cit. supra, p. 69. 



Type: Lamproteleia fasciatipennis Kieffer. By orig. desig. 



Transf. here the species listed under Ceratoteleia Kieffer in the Catalog, 

 p. 705, and in Sup. 1, p. 93. 



