GASTERUPTIIDAE 285 



rufitarsis (Cresson). Alaska. 



Genus AULACUS Jurine, pp. 659-660 

 dispilus Townes. Host : Reared from Celtis laevigata. 

 lovei (Ashmead). Host: Xiphydria tibialis Say. 



Family GASTERUPTIIDAE 



(^=zCasteruptiinae of Catalog) 



Revisions: Pasteels, 1956. Mus. Congo Beige, Ann., Sci. Zool., (Ser, 8) 

 50: [l]-94 (No. Africa) .—Pasteels, 1957. Inst. Roy. des Sci. Nat. 

 de Belg. Mem. (ser. 2) 56: [1]-125 (Australia).— Pasteels, 1957. 

 Soc. Roy. d'Ent. Belg., Bui. et Ann. 93 (5-6) : 173-176 (New Zea- 

 land) .—Pasteels, 1958. Op. cit. supra 94 (7-8) : 169-213. 



Taxonomy: Short, 1959. Ent. Monthly Mag. 95 (1145) : 219. 



Genus GASTERUPTION Latreille, p. 660 

 assectator assectator (Linnaeus). Alaska. 

 kirbii kirbii (Westwood) . Mich. 

 kirbii russeum Townes. Host: Hoplitis sambuci Titus. 



Genus RHYDINOFOENUS Bradley, p. 661 



barnstoni bamstoni (Westwood). Alaska. 



floridanus bradleyi Townes. Hosts: Hylaeus cressoni (Ckll.) ; Trypoxylon 

 frigidum Smith. 



pattersonae (Melander and Brues). Host: Dianthidium curvatum sayi Ckll. 



tarsatorius tarsatorius (Say). N. C. 



*Superfamily PELECINOIDEA 



Insert in Catalog before Proctotrupoidea, p. 655. 



Taxonomy: Handlirsch, 1933. Handbuch der Zoologie, v. 4 (2), Insecta 

 2, p. 981. 



Family PELECINIDAE 



Remove from Proctotrupoidea, pp. 661-662 and place in superfamily 

 Pelecinoidea before Proctotrupoidea, p. 655. 



Superfamily PROCTOTRUPOIDEA 



The families Evaniidae and Gasteruptiidae are removed to the superfa- 

 mily *Evanioidea and the family Pelecinidae to the superfamily *PeIecinoi- 

 dea. 



Morphology: Pschorn-Walcher, 1955. Schweiz. Ent. Gesell. Mitt. 28: 



214-219. 

 Phylogeny: Bradley, 1955. Soc. Roy Ent. de Belg. Mem. 27: 129-131.— 



Bradley, 1958 (1956). Tenth Internatl. Congr. Ent. Proc. 1: 267. 



Family VANHORNIIDAE 



Genus VANHORNIA Crawford, p. 662 

 eucnemidarum Crawford. Maine, N. H., Conn. 



