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coelebs (Walsh). N. B. s. to Fla., w. to Minn, and Tex. Host: Orgyia leucostigma (J. E. S.), 



Orgyia sp., Malacosoma americanum (F.), M. disstria Hbn., "Olene" sp., Metallus 



rohweri MacG. 

 Ichneumon inquisitor Say, 1829. Contrib. Maclurian Lyceum to Arts and Sci. 1: 71. 9. 



Preocc. by Scopoli, 1763. 

 Pimpla coelebs Walsh, 1873. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 3: 141. 6. 

 Pimpla inquisitoriella Dalla Torre, 1901. Cat. Hym., v. 3, p. 435. N. name for /. inquisitor 



Say. 



Biology: Howard, 1897. U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent. BuL 7: 16. —Howard, 1897. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Div. Ent. Tech. Ser. 5: 8-17, 23, 31, 54. —Howard, 1898. Ent. Soc. Ont., Ann. Kept. 28: 

 88. — Fiske, 1903. N. H. Agr. Expt. Sta., Tech. Bui. 6: 198-200. — Cushman, 1926. Ent. Soc. 

 Wash., Proc. 28: 33. — Schaffner and Griswold, 1934. U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 188: 143. 



Morphology: Peck, 1937. Canad. Jour. Res., Sect. D (Zool. Sci.) 15: 245-246. —Pratt, 1939. 

 Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 32: 735. 



stercorator orgyiae (Ashmead). N. S. s. to Md., w. to Alaska and Calif. Host: C horistoneura 

 rosaceana (Harr.), Ctenucha virginica (Charp.), Halisidota sp., Orgyia sp., 0. 

 leucostigma (J. E. S.), 0. vetusta (Bdv.), Malacosoma sp., M. disstria Hbn., Simyra 

 henrici (Grt.). Iseropus stercorator stercorator (Fabricius) occurs in Europe. 



Pimpla orgyiae RUey, 1891. In Riley and Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Insect Life 3: 462. 

 Nomen nudum. 



Ictoplectis (!) orgyiae Ashmead, 1896. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 23: 213. 9. 



Pimpla (Epiurus) bninneifrons Viereck, 1909. Ent. News 20: 291. d, 9. 



Iseropus bninneifrons septentrionalis Cushman, 1940. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 42: 56. S, 9. 



Biology: Patch, 1921. Maine Agr. Expt. Sta., Bui. 302: 318. (as coelebs, misdet.). 



Genus TROMATOBIA Foerster 



Tromatobia Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 164. 



Type-species: Pimpla variabilis Holmgren. Desig. by Ashmead, 1900 from ten 

 species included by Schmiedeknecht, 1888. 

 Austropimpla Brethes, 1913. Buenos Aires, Mus. Nac. de Hist. Nat., An. 24: 40. 



Type-species: Austropimpla huebrichi Brethes. Monotypic and orig. desig. Members 

 of this genus are gregarious parasites of spider egg cocoons. 

 notator (Fabricius). N. C, Ga., Fla.; Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Guyana? Host: Argiope 



argentata {¥.), Glyptocranium comigenim (Hentz). The species was reared from the 



latter host in Fla., from the former in Puerto Rico. 

 Pimpla notator Fabricius, 1804. Systema Piezatorum, p. 115. 9. 

 Clistopygai lateralis Cresson, 1865. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 4: 34. 6, 9. 

 Ephialtes Cressoni Dewitz, 1881. Berlin. Ent. Ztschr. 25: 205. 9. 

 Pimpla notatrix Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., p. 104. Emend. 

 ovivora (Boheman). N. S. s. to S. C, w. to Alaska and Calif.; Mexico, Hawaii, Europe, n. Asia. 



Host: Araneus diadema L., A. solitarius (Emrtn.)., Argiope avara Thor., A. argentata 



(F.), Cyrtophora califomiensis Keys. 

 Pimpla ovivora Boheman, 1821. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. (ser. 3) 9: 336. d, 9. 

 Ichneumon vexatorius Thunberg, 1822; 1824. Acad. Imp. des Sci. St. Petersburg, Mem. 8: 



281; 9: 368. [female]. 

 Ichneumon armillatorius Thunberg, 1822; 1824. Acad. Imp. des Sci. St. Petersburg, Mem. 



8: 281; 9: 368. [male]. 

 Pimpla angens Gravenhorst, 1829. Ichn. Europaea, v. 3, p. 162. 6,9. 

 Pimpla scriptifrons Cresson, 1870. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 3: 148. 9. 

 Pimpla vidua Walsh, 1873. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 3: 140. 9. 

 Pimpla parallela Thomson, 1877. Opusc Ent. 8: 752. 9 . 

 Pimpla albipes Brischke, 1891. Naturf. Gesell. Danzig, Schr. (n. s.) 7 (4): 63. 6. Synonymy 



uncertain. 

 Pimpla defensator Davis, 1898 (1897). Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 24: 267. 9. 

 Pimpla defensatrix Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., p. 104. Emend. 

 Pimpla landerensis Viereck, 1906. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 32: 243. 9. 



