Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 975 



nebulosus (Provancher). Ont., Mass., s. to Fla., w. to Wis. Host: Anipliipym pymyiiidoides 

 Guen., Lithopliane sp. 

 Miotropis )iebuloso Provancher, 1887. Addit. Corr. Faune Ent. Canada Hym., p. 208. 9. 

 Comedo hookeri Crawford, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 43: 188. $. 



Biology: Schaffner and Griswold, 1934. U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 188: 49, 154. 

 neomexicanus (Girault). N. Mex. 



Comedo neomexicamts Girault, 1917. New Chalcid Flies, p. 4. 



Taxonomy: Girault, 1920. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 58: 201. 

 orgyiae (Fitch). Que., Ont., N. Y., N. J., Pa., N. C, Miss., Wis., Wash., Oreg., Calif. Host: 



Acronicta grisea Walk., Alsophila pometaria (Harris), Caloptilia rhoifoliella (Chamb.), 

 Gliiphisia septe)itrio)ii>y Walk., Orgyia leucoHtigtna (J. E. Smith), 0. plagiata (Walk.), 

 Orthosia hibisci (Gn.), Stenoma algidella (Walk.). 

 Tricliogrcutnnaf orgyiae Fitch, 1856. Country Gentleman 7: 235. 



Taxonomy: Fitch, 1856. N. Y. State Agr. Soc, Trans. 15: 448-449. -Howard, 1897. U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Tech. Ser. 5: 28. -Girault, 1920. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 58: 201. 



Biology: Raizenne, 1952. Canad. Dept. Agr., Forest Lep. and Par., pp. 39, 49, 92, 97, 109, 257. 

 smerinthi (Ashmead). Ont., N. H., Mass., Md. Host: Alsophila poinetaria (Harris), Aniphipyra 

 pyramidoidea Guen., Paonias excaecata (Smith). 

 CratotechuH smerinthi Ashmead, 1898. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 4: 158. 9, 6. 



Taxonomy: Girault, 1920. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 58: 201. —Burks, 1964 (1963). Canad. Ent. 

 95: 1257. 



Biology: Dimmock, 1898. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 4: 150. —Schaffner and Griswold, 1934. U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 188: 52, 154. 



Genus DAHLBOMINUS Hincks 



Microplectron Dahlbom, 1857. Ofvers. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad., Forh. 14: 292 (no species). 

 —Thomson, 1878. Hym. Scand., v. 5, p. 222. One species. Preocc. by Streubel, 1842. 

 Type-species: Eiitedon fuscipennis Zetterstedt. Included by Thomson, 1878. 



DahlbomiuHs Hincks, 1945. Entomologist 78: 90. N. name. 

 fuscipennis (Zetterstedt). Newfoundland, Que., Ont., Maine, N. Y., Conn., Pa., N. J., Del., Md., 

 Va., N. C, Mich., Wis., 111., Minn., Mo.; Europe. Introduced for biological control from 

 Europe in 1933 in Eastern Canada and in 1935 in Northeastern U. S. Recovered 

 promptly and much subsequent spread by natural dissemination. Host: Diprion similis 

 (Htg.), Gilpinia frutetornni (F.), G. hercyniae (Htg.), Neodiprion lecontei (Fitch), N. 

 nanulus Schedl, N. pinetuni (Nort.), N. pratti (Dyar), N. sertifer (Geof.), N. swaiiiei 

 Midd., N. tsiigae Midd., Pristiphora erichsonii (Htg.). 



Entedon fuscipennis Zetterstedt, 1838. Insecta Lapponica, p. 427 [recte 429]. 9. 



Taxonomy: Boucek, 1959. Mus. Natl. Pragae, Acta Ent. 33: 145. — Finlayson, 1960. Canad. 

 Ent. 92: 37-44 (immature stages). 



Biology: Morris and Cameron, 1935. Bui. Ent. Res. 26: 407-418. -Ullyett, 1936. Bui. Ent. 

 Res. 27: 195-217. -Ullyett, 1936. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, Proc. (B) 120: 253-291. -Dowden, 

 1939. Jour. Econ. Ent. 32: 623. —Miller, 1940. U. S. Bur. Ent. Plant Quar. ET-161: 1-5. 

 — Balch, 1941 (1940). N. S. Dept. Lands and Forests, Rpt., pp. 72-74. —Wilkes, 1942. Roy. 

 Ent. Soc. London, Proc. (B) 130: 400-415. —Wilkes, 1947. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, Proc. (B) 

 134: 227-245. —Burnett, 1951. Amer. Nat. 85: 337. —Reeks, 1953. Canad. Jour. Agr. Sci. 33: 

 408. -Burnett, 1953. Ecology 34: 322. -Coppel, 1954. Canad. Ent. 86: 168. -Burnett, 

 1956. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 49: 55. —Clausen, 1956. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 1139: 

 101-102. -Riordan, 1957. Canad. Jour. Zool. 35: 603. —Burnett, 1958. Canad. Ent. 90: 279. 

 -Finlayson and Finlayson, 1958. Canad. Ent. 90: 587. — Milin, 1959. Zast. Bilja 51: 40. 

 — Finlayson, 1960. Canad. Ent. 92: 38 {fuliginosus (Nees)). — Szmidt, 1960. Anz. f. 

 Schadlingsk. 33: 20. —Szmidt, 1961. Poznan. Wyzsza Skola Roln. Rocz. Dodatek 6: 11. 

 -Kepler and Benjamin, 1960. Forest Sci. 6: 262. — Bobb, 1962. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 57: 

 102. —Bobb, 1963. Jour. Econ. Ent. 56: 620. —Finlayson, 1963. Canad. Ent. 95: 498. 



