872 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Biology: Roberts, 1933. Ent. News 44: 158. —Roberts, 1933. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 365: 

 1-21. —Roberts, 1933. Ecology 14: 311-312. — Jannone, 1934. Lab. Zool. Gen. e Agr. Portici, 

 Bol. 28: 146. -Roberts, 1935. Jour. Agr. Res. 50: 489-490. — Nikolskaja, 1960. Akad. Nauk 

 SSSR, Zool. Inst., Trudy 27: 222. 

 hammari (Crawford). Md., s. to Fla., w. to 111., Mo., Kans., Calif. Host: Acrobasis carijae Grote, 

 A. jitglaiidis (LeB.), Ancijlis comptana fmgariae (W. and R.), A)-cliips aiyijwspihis 

 (^Si\k.), Argyrot(ie)iio citnuia {Fern.), Filatiina nionotaeniella (Bott.), Gmpholitha 

 iiiolesta (Busck), Laspeyresia caryana (Fitch), L. ponionella (L.), Platynota sultana 

 Wlshm., Psorosina hammondi (Riley). 

 Chalcis hatinfiari Crawford, 1915. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 3: 89. 9, 6. 



Biology: Nettles, 1934. Jour. Econ. Ent. 27: 815-816. —Nickels et ah, 1950. U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Tech. Bui. 1011: 2, 18. -Bennett, 1961. Tenn. Acad. Sci., Jour. 36: 353. 

 incerta (Cresson). Fla.; West Indies, British Guiana, Brazil. Ecology: Both primary and 



secondary parasite. Host: Alaba))ia argillacea (Hbn.), Ascia ))!07iuste (L.), Brassolis 

 nophorae (L.), Calpodes etiilius (Stoll), Eantis tliraso Hbn., Lyntire albipornis (H.-S.), 

 Megalopyge kntgii Dewitz, Mesocondyla concordalis Hbn., M. gastralis Guen., Phoebis 

 sennae (L.), Pierin tiiouu.ste (L.), Sylepta sp.; Carcelia flaviroatris (Wulp). 

 Chalcis i)icevta Cresson, 1865. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 4: 101. 



Taxonomy: Wolcott, 1936. Puerto Rico Univ., Jour. Agr. 20: 535 (description and fig.). 

 — Dinther, 1960. Surinam. Landproefsta. (B) 76: 126 (description and fig.). 



Biology: Waterston, 1923. Bui. Ent. Res. 14: 104. — Cleare and Squire, 1934. Agr. Jour. Brit. 

 Guiana 5: 190. —Fife, 1939. Puerto Rico Agr. Expt. Sta., Bui. 39: 6. — Needham, 1948. Ecol. 

 Monog. 18: 446. 

 intermedia (Nees). Maine, N. H., Vt., Mass., R. I., Conn., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Del., Md.; Europe, N. 

 Africa. Introduced first in 1905 from Europe, and repeatedly introduced until 1933; first 

 recovered in Mass. in 1942. Recovered in large numbers since 1960. Host: Portlietria 

 dispar (L.). Numerous other hosts in Lepidoptera and some in Diptera recorded in the 

 literature. 

 Chalcis intermedia Nees, 1834. Hym. Ichn. Aff. Monog., v. 2, p. 29. i. 



Biology: Howard and Fiske, 1911. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 91: 240-309 (flavipes). 



— Masi, 1916. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ann. (3) 7: 78 i(/Zaz;j>es).— Fahringer, 1921. 

 Ztschr. f. Wiss. Insektenbiol. 17: 43. — Mercet, 1923. Rev. Fitopat. 1: 17. —Burgess and 

 Grossman, 1929. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 86: 116-118. —Mercet, 1932. Par. Ins. 

 Perjudiciales, pp. 66-68. — Dowden, 1935. Jour. Agr. Res. 50: 497-509. — Schedl, 1936. 

 Ztschr. Angew. Ent. 22, Beiheft, pp. 169-170. — Boucek and Sedivy, 1954. Folia Zool. et 

 Ent. 3: 183. -Karnozitzky, 1957. Bulgar. Akad. Nauk Zool. Inst., Trud. 4: 51, 97. — Martelli 

 and Arru, 1958. Bol. Zool. Agr. e Bachicolt. (2) 1: 26. — Kolomiets, 1958. Ent. Obozr. 37: 

 608. — Romanyk, 1959. Acad, de Cien. Exact., Fis. y Nat., Madrid, Rev. 53: 402. —Burks, 

 1960. Ent. News 71: 62. —Romanyk and Ruperez, 1960. Entomophaga 5: 231. 



— Hazdistevic, 1961. Zastita Bilja 56-66: 107. — Stefanov and Keremedziev, 1961. Sofia 

 Vissch. Lesotekh. Inst. Nauch., Trud. 9: 165. — Capek, 1963. Banska Stiavnica. Vyskum. 

 Ustav Lesn. Hosp. Ved. Prace 4: 265. — Zelinskaya, 1964. Akad. Nauk Ukrain. RSR, Inst. 

 Zool., Trudy 20: 199. —Leonard, 1966. Ent. News 77: 25. — Prokopy, 1968. Jour. Econ. Ent. 

 61: 351. -Leonard, 1971. Canad. Ent. 103: 654. — Doane, 1971. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 64: 

 753. 



molestae Burks. Md., s. to Fla., w. to Ind., Tenn., Miss. Host: Anchylopera platanana Clem., 

 Ancylis co>ii plana fragariae (W. and R.), Arogalea cristifasciella (Chamb.), Grapholitha 

 inolesta (Busck). 

 Brachy)neria (Bmchy))!eria) molestae Burks, 1960. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 86: 245. 9 , S. 



Biology: Eikenbary and Fox, 1965. S. C. Agr. Expt. Sta., Tech. Bui. 1017: 6. 

 ovata (Say). Conn., N. Y., and Ont., s. to Fla., w. to Oreg. and Calif.; Mexico. Ecology: Oviposits 

 in the pupae of over 100 species of Lepidoptera of the families Psychidae to 

 Papilionidae, the limiting factor being size, pupae of 1.5 cm. or greater length, and 

 exposure — it finds its hosts on the wing, not by crawling into crevices. 

 Chalcis ocata Say, 1824. In Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., App. p. 326. 



