Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 763 



Oligosthenus bimaculatus Provancher, 1887. Addit. Corr. Faune Ent. Canada Hym., p. 196. 



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Taxonomy: Ashmead, 1887. Amer. Ent. See, Trans. 14: 186. 



Genus ERIDONTOMERUS Crawford 



Eridontomerus Crawford, 1907. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 15: 178-179. 

 Type-species: Eridontomerus primus Crawford. Orig. desig. 

 isosomatis (Riley). N. Y. and Mich, to Tenn., Utah, Ariz. Host: Mayetiola destructor (Say); 



Harynolita albomaculata (Ashm.), H. linearis (Walk.), H. longula (Dalm.), H.festucae P. 

 and E., H. grandis (Riley), H. hordei (Harris), H. 7naculata (How.), H. secale (Fitch), H. 

 tritici (Fitch), H. vagiiiicola (Doane), H. websteri (How.). 

 Stictoywtus isosomatis Riley, 1882. U. S. Dept. Agr., Ann. Rpt. for 1881-1882, p. 186. 9, <S. 

 Eridontomerus primus Crawford, 1907. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 15: 179. 9,6. 



Taxonomy: Gahan, 1921 (1920). Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 22: 235. 



Biology: Phillips and Poos, 1927. Jour. Agr. Res. 34: 483-488. — Knowlton and Janes, 1933. 

 Utah Agr. Expt. Sta., Bui. 243: 11-12. 



Genus PSEUDOTORYMUS Masi 



Holaspis Mayr, 1874. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, Verh. 24: 83. Preocc. by Lankester, 1873 



(Pisces). 



Type-species: Torymus militaris Boheman. Desig. by Ashmead, 1904. 

 Pseudotorymus Masi, 1922. Genova Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat., Ann. 49: 235. N. name for 



Holaspis Mayr. 



lazulellus (Ashmead). N. B., Que., Conn., w. to Colo. Ecology: From clover heads; oak galls. 

 Host: Hartnolita sp. in rye stems, H. sp. in timothy stems. 

 Syyitomaspis lazulella Ashmead, 1890. Colo. Biol. Assoc, Bui. 1: 26, 45. 9. 



Biology: Webster, 1906 (1905). Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc 7: 116. 



Genus CRYPTOPRISTUS Foerster 



Cryptopristus Foerster, 1856. Hym. Stud., v. 2, pp. 43, 44. 



Type-species: Torymus caligiyiosus Walker. Monotypic. 

 Websterellus Ashmead, 1893. Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta., Tech. Ser., Bui. 1 (3): 164. 



Type-species: Websterellus tritici Ashmead. Monotypic. 



harrisii (Fitch). N. Y., Va., Ohio, Ky., Kans. Host: Harmolita grandis (Riley), H. hordei 

 (Harris)?, H. tritici (Fitch). 

 Torymus Harrisii Fitch, 1862 (1861). N. Y. State Agr. Soc, Trans. 21: 152. 9, 6. 

 Websterellus tritici Ashmead, 1893. Ohio Agr. Expt. Sta., Tech. Ser., Bui. 1 (3): 164. 9,6. 

 Cryptopristus americanus Girault, 1917. Descr. Stellarum Nov., p. 8. 9. 



Biology: Webster, 1893. U. S. Dept. Agr., Insect Life 6: 151. —Gahan, 1921 (1920). Ent. Soc 

 Wash., Proc 22: 237. 



Genus DITROPINOTUS Crawford 



Ditropinotus Crawford, 1907. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 15: 178. 



Type-species: Ditropinotus aureoviridis Crawford. Orig. desig. 

 aureoviridis Crawford. N. Y. to Ala. and Kans., Utah, Oreg. Host: Mayetiola destructor (Say); 

 Eurytoma parva Phillips, Harmolita linearis (Wlkr.), H. elymicola P. and E., H. grandis 

 (Riley), H. secale (Fitch), H. tritici (Fitch), H. vaginicola (Doane), Eurytoma spp., 

 Merisoponis chalcidiphagus (W. and R.). 

 Ditropinotus aureoviridis Crawford, 1907. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 15: 178. 9, S. 

 Ditropi7iottis flavicoxus Gahan, 1912. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 14: 5. 9, 6. 



Taxonomy: Gahan, 1934 (1933). U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 174: 25-30. 



Biology: Hill, Pinckney, and Udine, 1939. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 689: 5, 10, 13. 

 —Chamberlain, 1941. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 784: 25-28, 35-38. 



