Superfamily ICHNEUMONOIDEA 657 



canadensis Walley. Que^ Ont., Colo. Ecology: A specimen which seems to agree with Walley's 

 description of canadensis was reared from its cocoon which was collected under a stone 

 at Garden of the Gods, El Paso Co., Colo. 

 Spudastica canadensis Walley, 1944. Canad. Ent. 76: 157. cJ, 9. 



Genus MELOBORIS Holmgren 



Meloboris Hobngren, 1859 (1858). Svenska Vetensk.-Akad., Ofvers. af ... Forhandl. 15: 326. 

 Type-species: Meloboris gracilis Holmgren. Monotypic. Apparently the name 

 gracilis is validated in this work by virtue of article 16 (a) (vi) of the Internatl. 

 Code of Zool. Nomenclature, even though Holmgren indicated that he knew three 

 Scandinavian species of Meloboris. 

 Pseudocymodusa Habermehl, 1922. Konowia 1: 105. 



Type-species: Cymodusa elachistae Brischke. Monotypic. The type-species is 

 regarded as a synonym of M. alternants (Gravenhorst). 

 Anoixis Townes, 1970 (1969). Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 13: 180. N. syn. 



Type-species: Anoixis alophus Townes. Monotypic and orig. desig. 



This is a small Holarctic genus. There are a number of undescribed Nearctic species. Ap- 

 parently there are no host records. Townes (1965, 1970) treated Nepiera as a synonym of 

 Meloboris, but I believe Nepiera is sufficiently different from Meloboris to warrant separation 

 of the two. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1965. Polskie Pismo Ent. 35: 413-414. -Townes, 1970 (1969). Amer. Ent. 

 Inst., Mem. 13: 172-174, 180-181. — Horstmann, 1970. Bayer. Ent., Nachrichtenbl. 19: 81-82, 

 83. 

 alopha (Townes), n. comb. N. H., R. I., s. Ont., Mich. I have seen a pair of specimens in the 

 Canadian Natl. Collection which have the nervellus intercepted by the discoidella (cf. 

 Townes' fig. 170). 

 Anoixis alophus Townes, 1970 (1969). Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 13: 180. 6, 9. 



Genus NEPIERA Foerster 



Asinamora Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 155. N. syn. 



Type-species: Ichneumon collector Thunberg. By subsequent monotypy from 

 inclusion by Townes, Momoi, and Townes, 1965. The designation of Townes, 

 Momoi, and Townes (1965) reads: "{Limneria concinna Holmgren) = collector 

 Thunberg." Article 68 (c) of the Internatl. Code of Zool. Nomenclature indicates 

 that collector is the type-species by monotypy in spite of the intentions of 

 Townes, Momoi, and Townes, which presumably were that it be concinna. 



Nepiera Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verh. 25: 156. 



Type-species: Limneria concinna Holmgren. By subsequent monotypy from 

 inclusion by Thomson, 1887. The type-species is regarded as a synonym of N. 

 collector (Thunberg). 



This is a genus of small to moderate size. It is known to me only from the Neotropic, Holarc- 

 tic, and Australian Regions, but the placement of the Ethiopian species Limneria hehninda 

 Holmgren in Meloboris by Townes and Townes (1973) would presumably indicate that hehninda 

 is a species o{ Nepiera. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1965. Polskie Pismo Ent. 35: 414. —Townes, Momoi, and Townes, 1965. 

 Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 5: 291. —Horstmann, 1970. Bayer. Ent., Nachrichtenbl. 19: 81-82, 

 83. —Townes and Townes, 1973. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 19: 155. 



basilaris (Provancher). Que. 



Limneria basilaris Provancher, 1875. Nat. Canad. 7: 147. "<J" = 9. The specimen indicated 

 as being the lectotype by Gahan and Rohwer (1917) and the holotype by Barron (1975) 

 was incorrectly stated by them as being a male. My notes on the holotype indicate that 

 is a female of the genus Nepiera, and that it is similar to and perhaps conspecific with 

 benevola Gahan. My notes also indicate that the male in the Provancher collection does 

 not have the hind coxa black; it thereby fails to agree with Provancher's original 

 description. It represents an undescribed species of the genus Meloboris. In the U. S. 



