768 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Type-species: Palmoyi bellator Dalman. Desig. by Gahan and Fagan, 1923. 

 Priomerus Walker, 1833. Ent. Mag. 1: 116, 118. 



Type-species: Priomerus pachymerus Walker. Monotypic. 

 Pachytomus Westwood, 1847. Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 4: 260. 



Type-species: Pachytomus klugianus Westwood. Monotypic. 

 Notopodion Dahlbom, 1857. Ofvers. Svenska Vetensk. Akad., Forh. 14: 295. 



Type-species: Podagrion splendens Spinola. Desig. by Gahan and Fagan, 1923. 

 Bactyrischion Costa, 1857. Accad. della Sci. Fis. e Mat. Napoli, Mem. (A) 2: 223. 



Type-species: Bactyrischion bicoloratum Costa. Monotypic. 

 Blephonira Holmgren, 1868. Eug. Resa, Zool., 6, Ins. 1: 438. 



Type-species: Blephonira fulvipes Holmgren. Monotypic. 

 Cyanostola Saussure, 1890. In Grandidier, Hist. Madagascar 20, Hym. 1, pi. 15, fig. 30. 



Type-species: Cyanostola coerulea Saussure. Monotypic. 

 Notopodium Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., p. 144. Emend. 

 Podagrium Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., p. 150. Emend. 

 Podagrionella Girault, 1913. Arch. f. Naturgesch. 79 (A) pt. 6: 96. 



Type-species: Podagrionella bella Girault. Monotypic. 

 Pachytomoidella Girault, 1913. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bui. 11: 40. 



Type-species: Pachytomoidella magniclavus Girault. Orig. desig. 

 Propodagrion Girault, 1915. Queensland Mus., Mem. 4: 287. 



Type-species: Propodagrion worcesteri Girault. Orig. desig. 

 Propachytomoides Girault, 1917. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 5: 152. 



Type-species: Propachytomoides semialbiclavus Girault. Orig. desig. 



Taxonomy: Ferriere, 1955. Soc. Roy. Ent. de Belg., Mem. 27: 216. 

 brasiliense Howard. Fla.; W. Indies. Host: Mantid egg mass. 



Podagrion brasilieyisis Howard, 1894. Linn. Soc. London, Jour., Zool. 25: 83. 9. 



Taxonomy: Gahan, 1951. Canad. Ent. 83: 176. 

 crassiclava Gahan, Fla., Tex., Ariz.; Mexico. Host: Mantis sp., Stagmomantis limbata (Hahn). 



Podagrion crassiclava Gahan, 1922. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 61 (24): 6. 9, cJ. 

 mantidiphagum Girault. Ariz.; Mexico, W. Indies. Host: Egg mass of undet. mantid. 



Podagrion mantidiphagum Girault, 9117. Entomologist 50: 37. 9, cJ. 

 mantis Ashmead. N. J. to Fla., w. to Mo., La., Kans., Tex., Ariz., Calif.; Mexico, Hawaii. Host: 

 Stagmomantis Carolina (Johan.), S. limbata (Hahn)?, Tenodera angustipennis Sauss., T. 

 aridifolia sine^isis Sauss. 

 Podagrion mantis Ashmead, 1886. Canad. Ent. 18: 57. 9 . 



Biology: Breland, 1941. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 34: 99-133. — Gumey, 1959. Ent. Soc. Wash., 

 Proc. 61: 23. 



Unplaced Taxa of TORYMINAE 



By E. E. Grissell 



Diomorus biorkizae Ashmead, 1887. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 14: 186. 9. Ont. Host: Xanthoteras 

 quercusforticome (Walsh). 



Taxonomy: Burks, 1967. In Krombein, et al, U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2, Sup. 2: 250 

 (Probably a species of Torymus; type apparently lost). 

 Lochites punctata Ashmead, 1887. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 14: 185. S. Fla. 



Family PTEROMALIDAE 



By B. D. Burks 



This is the largest and most difficult family of the Chalcidoidea. Almost all species are 

 parasitic, but a very few are gall formers, a few are phytophagous, and some others should be 

 considered to be predaceous. The latter feed, as larvae, on a succession of eggs or larvae of their 

 prey, while enclosed within stems of grasses or other herbaceous plants. 



