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Townes (1971) erroneously placed Neopimpla as a synonym of Astornaspis Foerster and 

 declared that the type locality of N. abbottii Ashmead is Zululand in South Africa by virtue of 

 his synonymizing abbottii with Caenopivipla crassa Morley (1926). However, the handwritten 

 manuscript of Ashmead's (1900) classification of the Ichneumonoidea shows that his parentheti- 

 cal citation "Africa" was intended for Hevnpi7)ipla Saussure and not Neopivtpla. Ashmead's 

 use of the name abbottii for the type-species of Neopimpla was apparently a lapsus for the 

 name he really intended and was caused by his confusion with his genus Erythropimpla 

 (type-species: E. abbottii Ashmead). The only specimens ever to be found bearing a label with 

 the name N<'<)pinipla in Ashmead's handwriting are two of Cushman's paratypes of Cyrtubanis 

 rogoe. As noted by Cushman, these specimens run to Neopimpla in Ashmead's key to the 

 Pimplini. 



Taxonomy: Cushman, 1919. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 21: 116. —Townes, 1971. Ent. Soc. Wash., 

 Proc. 73: 445. 

 bicarinata (Riley), n. comb. 111. , Mo., Kans., Colo. Host: Rogas sp. 



Polijspliiyicta bicarinata Riley, 1871. Mo. State Ent, Ann. Rpt. 3: 71. 6. 

 Neopimpla abbottii Ashmead, 1900. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 23: 56. 9. N. syn. 

 Cyrtobasis rogae Cushman, 1919. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 21: 115. 9. 



Genus DIAGLYPTIDEA Viereck 



Diaglyptidea Viereck, 1913. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 46: 371. 



Type-species: Diaglyptidea roepkei Viereck. Monotypic and orig. desig. 

 lavoiei (Provancher). Que., Maine, N. H., N. Y., Mich., Wis. 



Phiiadenon Lavoiei Provancher, 1882. Nat. Canad. 13: 353. 9. 

 Hemiteles pallipennis Provancher, 1882. Nat. Canad. 13: 360. 9,6. 



Genus LYSIBIA Foerster 



Pemon Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 174. 



Type-species: Pemon proxiynum Perkins. Monotypically included and desig. by 

 Perkins, 1962. 

 Lysibia Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 175. 



Type-species: Hemiteles jidvipes Gravenhorst. Desig. by Townes, Momoi, and 

 Townes, 1965 from three species included by Townes, Townes, and Gupta, 1961. 

 The type-species is regarded as a junior synonym of Lysibia nana (Gravenhorst). 

 The designation of nana as type-species by Perkins (1962) is invalid because 

 nana was not among the species included by Townes, Townes, and Gupta (1961). 

 Stiboscppns Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 182. N. syn. 



Type-species: Hemiteles ynandibularis Provancher. By subsequent monotypy from 

 incl ision by [Ashmead in] Slosson, 1896. Viereck (1911, 1914) and Perkins (1962) 

 incorrectly believed Ashmead (1900) to be the oldest inclusion of species in 

 Stiboscopus; consequently, Viereck's designation of Stiboscopiis thoracicus 

 Ashmead as the type-species of Stiboscopus is invalid. 

 Haplaspis Townes, 1944. Amer. Ent. Soc, Mem. 11: 190. N. syn. 



■Type-species: Hemiteles mandibularis Provancher. Orig. desig. 



Between 1914 and 1944 the name Astornaspis Foerster was applied to this genus in the belief 

 that Hemiteles fiilvipes Gravenhorst was its type-species. In 1944 Townes corrected this error, 

 but he made another in describing Astomaspis of authors as the new genus Haplaspis while 

 overlooking the fact that the name Stiboscopus should have been applied instead; it should have 

 occurred to him to investigate this possibility because of the fact that the combination 

 "Stiboscopus mandibularis Slosson, ... 1896" is given in his synonymy for mandibularis 

 (Provancher). Since 1961 the name Lysibia has been appHed to this genus, and I here suppress 

 Stiboscopus as a synonym of Lysibia because I have been urged not to suppress Lysibia. 

 Stiboscopus sensu Townes (1970) and Townes and Townes (1973) was a confused mixture of spe- 

 cies; the two Nearctic species, Hemiteles pinifoliae Cushman and Alegina laricellae Mason, be- 

 long in the subtribe Mastrina (i.e. where Townes had placed Stiboscopus) where I am placing 

 them provisionally in the genus Mastrus; the other three species belong in Indovia, which is 

 here placed in the subtribe Acrolytina. 



