Superfamily ICHNEUMONOIDEA 449 



Hygrocryptus Thomson, 1873. Opusc. Ent. 5: 513. 



Type-species: Cryptus carnifex Gravenhorst. Desig. by Viereck, 1914. 

 Allocryptus Viereck, 1917. Conn. State Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey Bui. 22: 333. 



Type-species: Agrotlicrentes (Allocryptus) liyslopi Viereck. Monotypic. 



This is a Holarctic genus which is rather arbitrarily distinguished from Agrothereutes and 

 Aritranifi. 



apicatus (Provancher). N. S., Que., Maine, Vt., N. Y., Ont., Ohio, Sask. Ecology: This species 

 has been reared from galls of En lira on Sali.x, but appears to be too large to be a 

 parasite of Eiiiira and may parasitize Lepidoptera which occupy the galls secondarily. 



Cryptua apicatus Provancher, 1874. Nat. Canad. 6 (6): 178 (key); 6 (7): 204. 9. 



Cryptus cinctus Provancher, 1875. Nat. Canad. 7: 175. S. Preocc. by Fabricius, 1805. 



bituminosus (Cushman). Mass., Conn., N. Y., N. J., Ga., Ill, Minn., La., Calif. Ecology: This 

 species has been collected on Spartina in salt marshes. Host: Diatraea sp., Ostrinia 

 nuhilalis (Hbn.), 0. obumbratalis (Led.), 0. penitalis (Grt.), Spheiiophorus pertinax 

 (Oliv.). 

 Crypioideus bituniiiiosus Cushman, 1924. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 64 (4): 6. 9. 



canadensis burkei (Viereck). California. Host: Orgyia leucostigma (J. E. S.), 0. vetusta (Bdv.). 



Malacosoiiia californiciun califoniicniii (Pack.). 

 Cryptus (Gawbrus) burkei Viereck, 1909. Ent. News 20: 291. cJ, 9. 

 canadensis canadensis (Provancher). N. S. w. to B. C, s. to N. C, Kans., Ariz., and Oreg. 



Host: Malacosoiiia aiiiericaituiit (P.), M. califoniicum fragile (Stretch), M. disstria 



Hbn., Laspeyresia poiiionella (L.), Archips cerasiroranus (Fitch), Thymelicus lineola 



(Oehs.). In their tribal revision, Townes and Townes (1962) divided this subspecies into 



two with very broadly overlapping ranges. 

 Nejiiatopodius Canadensis Provancher, 1875. Nat. Canad. 7: 268. 6. 

 Spilocryptus exareolatus Viereck, 1903. In Skinner, Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 29: 81. 6. N. 



syn. 

 extrematis (Cresson). N. S. w. to B. C, s. to D. C, Kans., Utah, and Calif. Host: Hyalophora 



cecropia (L.), H. Columbia (S. I. S.), H. euryalus (Bdv.), H. gloveri (Stkr.). 

 Cryptus extrematis Cresson, 1864. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 3: 404. 9. 

 Cryptus sainiae Packard, 1865. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Proc. 9: 345. 6,9. 

 Echtlirus Provanclieri Provancher, 1885. Canad. Ent. 17: 116. c^, 9. The evidence given by 



Barron (1975) does not seem sufficient for attributing authorship to Brodie (in 



Provancher) rather than to Provancher. 

 Spilocryptus cecropiae Habermehl, 1919. Ztschr. f. Wiss. Insekten-Biol. 14: 239. 9. 



Taxonomy: Barron, 1975. Nat. Canad. 102: 536. 



Biology: Riley, 1872. Mo. State Ent., Ann. Rpt. 4: 110-111. —Harrington, 1891. Ent. Soc. 

 Ontario, Ann. Rpt. 21: 67. -Smith, 1908. Jour. Econ. Ent. 1: 294-297. —Marsh, 1937. 

 Ecology 18: 107-111. -Marsh, 1937. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 30: 40-42. —Marsh, 1938. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc, Jour. 46: 27. 



Morphology: Riederer, 1890. N. Y. Micros. Soc, Jour. 46: 27. 

 nuncius (Say). N. B. w. to w. N. W. T., s. to Ala. and La. Host: Callosaniia angulifera (Wlk.), 

 C. proniethia (Drury), Antlieraea polyphemus (Cramer), Samia cyntliia (Drury). 

 Cryptus nuncius Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 237. 9. 

 polyphemi Townes. N. S. w. to B. C, s. to Fla., Tex., N. Mex. and Oreg. Host: Antlieraea 

 polyphemus (Cramer). 

 Cryptus sordid us Provancher, 1886. Addit. Corr. Faune Ent. Canada Hym., p. 67. 9. 



Preocc. by Tschek, 1870. 

 Ganibrus polyplieiiii Townes, 1945. Amer. Ent. Soc, Mem. 11: 809. N. name for C. 

 sordidus Provancher. 

 tunicularubra (Fyles). Southern Que. Host: Gnorinioschenia gallaeasteriella (Kell.). The 



lectotype is apparently the only remaining specimen reared by Fyles. Fyles mentioned 

 having encountered this ichneumonid repeatedly in his work on the biology of the host, 



