Superfamily ICHNEUMONOIDEA 285 



pulchricornis (Wesmael). New England (?); Europe, N. Afr. Liberated in New England but 

 not known to be established. Introduced from France. Host: Lymantria dispar (L.). 

 Perilitus pulchricornis Wesmael, 1835. Nouv. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 9: 42. 9, 6. 

 ruficeps (Nees). Que. (?), Ont. (?); Europe. Liberated in Que. and Ont. but not known to be 

 established. Introduced from Europe. Host: ChoriatoHeura fumiferana (Clem.). 

 PerilituH ruficeps Nees, 1834. Hym. Ichn. Aff. Monog., v. 1, p. 39. 9, 6. 

 tauricornis (Provancher). Labrador s. to Md., w. to Ont. and Iowa; Fla., Tenn., Colo., Alaska. 



Rhopalophonis tauricornis Provancher, 1880. Nat. Canad. 12: 168. 9. 

 terebratus Muesebeck. Mich. Host: Orchesia castanea Melsh. Host record needs to be 

 confirmed. 

 Meteonis terebratus Muesebeck, 1923. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 63: 24. 9, 6. 

 tersus Muesebeck. Idaho, Calif. Host: A)>iorbia essigaiia Busck, Orgyia pseudotsugata McD., 0. 

 vetiista gulosa (Hy. Edw.), Sabulodes caberata (Gn.). 

 Meteorus tersus Muesebeck, 1956. Pan-Pac. Ent. 32: 25. 9, <S. 



Biology: Fleschner, Ricker and Johnson, 1957. Calif. Avocado Soc, Ybk. 41: 115. 

 tetralophae Muesebeck. N. Y. s. to Fla., w. to Ont., Ind., and Iowa. Host: Dioryctria disclusa 

 Heinr., Psorosiua ha)n)iiotidi (Riley), Tetralopha asperatella (Clem.), T. robustella ZelL, 

 T. subcaualis (Wlkr.). 

 Meteorus tetralophae Muesebeck, 1926. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 69: 2. 9. 

 tibialis Muesebeck. Que., N. Y., Ga., Ont., Wis. Host: Hyperplatys aspera (Say). 



Meteonis tibialis Muesebeck, 1923. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 63: 23. 9, cJ. 

 trachynotus Viereck. U. S. and Canada. Host: Acleris longiana (L.), A. variana (Fern.), 



Ancylis sp., A. coniptana fragaria (W. and R.), Archips argyrospilus (Wlkr.), A. rosaniis 

 (L.), A. semiferanus (Wlkr.), Argyrotaenia citrana (Fern.), Choristoneura conflictana 

 (Wlkr.), C.fuviiferaua (Clem.), C. lauibertiana (Busck), C. occideutalis Freem., C. pinus 

 Freem., Dioryctria roiiculella (Grote), Epis7)ius argutanus (Clem.), Evora hemidesma 

 (Zell.), Grapliolitha uiolesta (Busck), Platynota idaezisalis (Wlkr.), Sparganothis 

 pettitana (Rob.), S. sulphurana (F.). 

 Meteonis trachynotus Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 42: 142. 9,6. 

 Meteorus archipsidis Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 43: 580. 9. 



Biology: McGugan, 1955. Canad. Ent. 87: 178-187. 

 versicolor (Wesmael). New England, east. Canada; B. C, Wash.; China, Japan, N. Afr. 



Introduced from Europe. Host: Nygniia phaeorrhoea (Donov.), Orgyia antigua (L.), 0. 

 leucostigma (Sm.), Protoboarniia porcelaria (Gn.), Stilpnotia salicis (L.). 

 Perilitus versicolor Wesmael, 1835. Nouv. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bru.xelles 9: 43. 9, 6. 

 Perilitus biniaciilatns Wesmael, 1835. Nouv. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bru.xelles 9: 45. 9. 

 Perilitus brevicornis Ratzeburg, 1844. Ichn. d. Forstins. 1: 77. 9. 

 Meteonis decoloratus Ruthe, 1862. Berlin. Ent. Ztschr. 6: 48. 9. 



Biology: Muesebeck, 1918. Jour. Agr. Res. 12: 191-206. —Burgess and Grossman, 1929. U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 86, p. 127-131. —Clausen, 1956. U. S. Dept. Agr.. Tech. Bui. 1139, p. 

 114. -Dowden. 1962. U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Handb. 226, p. 60. 



vitticollis (Holmgren). Calif. 



Saprotichus vitticollis Holmgren, 1868. Eug. Resa I, Zool. I, Ins., p. 431. S. 



Nomina Nuda in Meteorus Haliday 



Meteonis areolatus Ashmead, 1902. In Slosson, Ent. News 13: 321. 



Meteonis brevicaudus Ashmead, 1890. In Riley and Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Insect Life 3: 



57. 

 Sapotrichusjohnsonii Ashmead, 1900 (1899). //( Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 589. 

 Meteorus niger Ashmead, 1902. In Slosson, Ent. News 13: 321. 

 Meteorus notodontae Riley, 1890. In Riley and Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Insect Life 3: 57. 



Tribe EUPHORINI 



Members of this tribe are chiefly endoparasites of adult insects, but the species of some 

 groups parasitize nymphs of Heteroptera and Psocoptera. 



