390 HYMENOPTERA OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO 



*mandibulari8 Williams. Replaced by prosopidis Williams. 



^masoni Williams. Calif, (Thousand Palms). 



Solierella masoni Williams, 1959. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 61: 74, 5 figs. 

 9, $. 



mirifica Pate. 



Taxonomy: Williams. 1962. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 64: 185-186 (9). 



plenoculoides plenoculoides (Fox). Ariz. Change fall to gall in rearing data. 



""prosopidis Williams. Calif. (San Bernardino Co.). On flowers of Prosopis. 

 *Solierella mamlibularis Williams, 1958. Pan-Pacific Ent. 34: 212, figs. 



4, 4a. 9. Preocc. 

 Solierella prosopidis Williams, 1959. Pan-Pacific Ent. 35: 116. N. name. 



"^semirugosa Williams. Calif. (San Diego, Riverside and Yolo Counties). On 

 flowers of Euphorbia polycarpa. 

 Solierella semirugosa Williams, 1958. Pan-Pacific Ent. 34: 210, figs. 

 3-3d. 9, $. 



vierecki (Rohwer). Ariz. 



Genus NITELOPTERUS Ashmead, p. 944 



californicus (Ashmead). Ariz. 



*evansi Krombein. Wyo., Wash. Prey: Dictyna sp. 



ISitelopterus evansi Krombein, 1963. Ent. News 74: 61. ?. 

 Biology: Evans, 1963. Ent. News 74: 234-236, figs. 1-2. 

 Taxonomy: Evans, 1964, loc. cit. supra, p. 283, figs. 88-92 (larva). 



slossonae barberi Krombein. Prey: small or immature Linyphiidae, Lycosidae 

 and Salticidae. 

 Biology: Krombein and Kurczewski, 1963. Biol. Soc. Wash. Proc. 76: 



140-143.— Krombein, 1964. Amer. Mus. Novitates 2201: 14-15. 

 Taxonomy: Evans, 1964, loc. cit. supra, pp. 283-284 (larva). 



slossonae slossonae Ashmead. Prey: small, mostly immature, Lycosidae, 

 Dictynidae, Salticidae and Linyphiidae. 

 Biology: Krombein and Kurczewski, 1963, loc. cit. supra, pp. 140-143. — 

 Krombein, 1964. Amer. Mus. Novitates 2201: 13-14. 



Genus NITELA Latreille, pp. 944-945 



virginiensis Rohwer. Mich. 



Taxonomy: Krombein, 1958. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 60: 60. $. 



TACHYTES subgenus TACHYTES Panzer, pp. 945-946 



Taxonomy: Bohart, 1962. Pan-Pacific Ent. 38: 117-129, 26 figs, (pepticus 

 group). 



aurulentus (Fabricius). Transf. to Tachytes subg. Tachyplena, p. 946, where 

 it replaces mandihularis Patton. N. B., aurulentus Auctt. is re- 

 placed by austrinus Banks. 



austrinus Banks. Replaces aurulentus Auctt., nee Fabricius. 



basirufus Rohwer. Colo., Utah, Nev., Ariz., Calif.; Mexico (Hidalgo). 



brevipilis Banks. Syn. of sayi Banks. 



*californicus Bohart. Calif., Oreg., Idaho. 



Tachytes californicus Bohart, 1962. Pan-Pacific Ent. 38: 125, figs. 15- 

 17. $, 9. 



elongatus elongatus Cresson. 



Taxonomy: Evans, 1958a, loc. cit. supra, pp. 116-117, figs. 9-17 (larva). 



exornatus Fox. Prey: Conalcea (?) sp., nymph. 



Biology: Krombein, 1960. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Bui. 55: 75. 



fulviventris fulviventris Cresson. N. Dak. south to Tex., west to Wyo., Utah, 

 N. Mex.; Mexico (Oaxaca). Another subsp. occurs in Baja Cali- 

 fornia. 



