738 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Neurateles ulmicola Ashmead, 1896. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 23: 203. 9. 

 Neurateles liriodendri Ashmead, 1896. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 23: 203. <S, 9. 



undulatus (Davis). Northern 111. 



Deleter undulatus Davis, 1897. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 24: 221. 9 (d misdet.). 



Genus LEIPAULUS Townes 



Leipaulus Townes, 1945. Amer. Ent. Soc, Mem. 11: 552. 



Type-species: Deleter suffuscus Davis. Monotypic and orig. desig. 



This is a genus of moderate size; Townes (1971) had seen 20 species. The genus is known from 

 the Holarctic, Oriental, Australian, and Ethiopian Regions. There is at least one undescribed 

 Nearctic species. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1958. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc 60: 221 (syn.). —Townes, 1971. Amer. Ent. 

 Inst., Mem. 17: 215 (name resurrected). 

 ridibundus (Gravenhorst). Nearctic Region; Europe. 



Orthocentrus ridibundus Gravenhorst, 1829. Ichn. Europaea, v. 3, p. 366. 6. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1971. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 17: 215 (distribution). 

 suffuscus (Davis). N. S. w. to B. C, s. to S. C, La., Colo., Ariz., and Calif. 

 Deleter suffuscus Davis, 1897. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 24: 221. 6. 



Genus PLECTISCUS Gravenhorst 



Plectiscus Gravenhorst, 1829. Ichn. Europaea, v. 2, p. 978. 



Type-species: Plectiscus impurator Gravenhorst. Desig. by Westwood, 1840. 

 Brepkoctonus Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 159. 



Type-species: Plectiscus impurator Gravenhorst. Monotypically included and desig. 

 by Foerster, 1871. 



According to Townes (1971) this genus is Neotropic, Holarctic, and Oriental; 15 species were 

 known to him, 14 of them being either undescribed or unidentified. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1958. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 60: 221. —Townes, 1971. Amer. Ent. Inst., 

 Mem. 17: 215-216. 



Genus NEURATELES Ratzeburg 



Neurateles Ratzeburg, 1848. Ichn. d. Forstins., v. 2, p. 86. 



Type-species: Neurateles papyraceus Ratzeburg. Monotypic. 

 NeuratelusV.) Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 159, 218. 



This is a Neotropic and Holarctic genus of moderate size. 



alaskensis (Ashmead), n. comb. N. H., N. W. T., Colo., Alta., Alaska. 



Hypoleptus alaskensis Ashmead, 1902. Wash. Acad. Sci., Proc. 4: 227. 9 (d misdet.). A 

 female in the U. S. Natl. Museum collection is here selected as lectotype It is labeled 

 "8-22, [18]97, St. Paul Isl., Alaska, Type No. 5672, Hypoleptus alaskensis Ashm. [written 

 by Ashmead], Lectotype, Hypoleptus alaskensis Ashmead, Revision L. K. Smith 

 [written by Lois K. Smith]." 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1945. Amer. Ent. Soc, Mem. 11: 549 (identification apparently based on 

 a specimen which was then a syntype). —Smith, 1958. Rev. Subfam. Orthocentrinae Amer. 

 No. of Mexico; unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Univ. of Wis., p. 350-352. 



leucopsis (Ashmead). Colo. 



Orthocentrus leucopsis Ashmead, 1890. Colo. Biol. Assoc, Bui. 1: 24. 6. 



Unplaced Taxa of Ichneumonidae 



Anomalon laterale BruUe, 1846. In Lepeletier, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., v. 4, p. 175. 9. 

 "L'Amerique sept.; Bastard." 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1961. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 63: 104. 

 Asymmictus nigrofrons Davis, 1898 (1897). Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 24: 325. 9. "Agricultural 

 College, Michigan." 



