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pubescens Ashmead. Transf . to Synopeas Foerster. 

 punctata Ashmead. Transf. to Synopeas Foerster. 

 rufiscapus (Ashmead). Transf. to Synopeas Foerster. 

 rugosiceps Kieffer. Transf. to Synopeas Foerster. 

 striatifrons Ashmead. Transf. to Synopeas Foerster. 

 texana Fouts. Transf. to Synopeas Foerster. 



Superfamily BETHYLOIDEA 

 Family CHRYSIDIDAE 



Biology: Krombein, 1958. Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 84: 141-168, 2 pis. 

 (spp. of coastal N. C). 



Genus OMALUS Panzer, pp. 718-719 



*Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1870. Soc. Linn. Lyon Ann. 26, sup.: 26. 



Type: Holopyga (Philoctetes) cicatrix Abeille de Perrin. De- 



sig. by Ashmead, 1902. 



Diplorrhos Aaron, 1885. Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 12: 216. 



Type: Diplorrhos plicatus Aaron. By monotypy. 



*EUampus subg. Dictenulus Semenov, 1932. Soc. Ent. Ross. Hor. 42: 6. 



Type: EUampus (Dictenulus) specularis Semenov. Orig desig. 



Revision: Bohart and Campos, 1960. Ent. Soc. Amer. Ann. 53: 235-250, 

 30 figs. 



*aeneus (Fabricius). Canada and U. S. south to Ga., N. Mex. and Ariz., 

 chiefly in Canadian and Transition Zones, occasionally Upper 

 Austral; Europe. Hosts: Pemphredon sp. and Passaloecus sp. in 

 U. S.; Stigmus, Passaloecus and Pemphredon in Europe. 

 (Onialus) 



Chrysis aeneus Fabricius, 1787. Mant. Ins. 1: 284. 



Onialus laeviventris Cresson (syn. by Bohart and Campos, 1960, loc. cit. 

 supra, p. 238). 



Omalus diversus Aaron (syn. by Bohart and Campos, 1960, loc. cit. 

 supra, p. 238). 



*auratus (Linnaeus). N. Y. south to S. C, Ohio, Ind. Hosts: Pemphredon 

 (Cemonus) I. lethifer (Shuck.) and Passaloecus turiomim Dahlb. 

 in U. S.; in Europe Pemphredon (P.) lugubris F., Pemphredon 

 (Cemonus) unicolor F., Trypoxylon figulum F. and T. attenuatum 

 Sm. — the latter two records are very dubious. (Pseudomalus) 



Sphex aurata Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 572. 



Onialus sinuosus (Say) (syn. by Bohart and Campos, 1960, loc. cit. 

 supra, p. 241. Note that O. janus is removed from syn. and revali- 

 dated with O. corruscans (Norton) and O. purpuratus (Pro- 

 vancher) as syns.). 



Taxonomy: Krombein, 1959. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Bui. 54: 95-96. 



Biology: Thomas, 1962. Ent. News 73: 217-218. 



*butleri Bohart and Campos. Ariz., N. Mex., Utah, Colo., B. C, Ind., N. Y. 

 (Omalus) 

 Omalus (Omalus) butleri Bohart and Campos, 1960. Ent. Soc. Amer. 

 Ann. 53: 240, figs. 6, 17. $, $. 



cressoni (Aaron). Oreg., Calif., Ariz., Colo., Utah, Mont., Nebr. Hosts: Xy- 

 locelia occidentalis (Fox), Pemphredon giffardi (Roh.), Stigmus 

 inordinatus Fox. (Diplorrhos) 

 Biology: Powell, 1964. Wasmann Jour. Biol. 21: 172-173, 



diversus Aaron. Syn. of aeneus (Fabricius). In orig. citation for diversus, 

 change § to 5. 



