878 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



furcata (Fabricius). Ga., Tex.; West Indies, Cent, and South Amer. 

 E ucharis f areata Fabricius, 1804. Systema Piezatorum, p. 158. 



Taxonomy: Brues, 1907. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bui. 5: 105. 



Genus PSEUDOMETAGEA Ashmead 



Pseudometagea Ashmead, 1899. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 4: 239, 241. No species —Ashmead, 

 1904, Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 267. One species. 



Type-species: Metagea scliwarzii Ashmead. Desig. by Ashmead, 1904. 



Revision: Burks, 1961. Ent. News 72: 253-257. 

 bakeri Burl<s. Iowa, Wyo., Colo. 



Pneudometagea bakeri Buri<s, 1961. Ent. News 72: 256. 9,6. 

 schwarzii (Ashmead). Que. and Ont., s. to Md. and D. C, w. to Wis., Iowa, Nebr. Host: Lasius 

 neoniger Emery. 

 Metagea schwarzii Ashmead, 1892. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 2: 356. S, 9. 

 Pseudovietagea hilhneadia Girault, 1916. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 11: 113. 9. 



Biology: Ayre, 1962. Canad. Jour. Zool. 40: 157-164. 



Family EUPELMIDAE 



By B. D. Burks 



In many classifications the eupelmids are placed in the family Encyrtidae. However, all the 

 eupelmids agree in possessing an array of characters that indicate that they and the encyrtids 

 diverged separately from the evolutionary stem of the chalcidoids at a remote time in the 

 development of the superfamily. Eupelmids may be recognized by having the margin of the pre- 

 pectus projecting over the margin of the mesepisternum, in having the forecoxae and midcoxae 

 widely separated, and in having the midcoxae so formed that they can be rotated either anteri- 

 orly or posteriorly. The encyrtids do not have those characters. 



Morphology: Reid, 1941. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 91: 433-434. 



Subfamily TANAOSTIGMATINAE 



This group is primarily Neotropical and Australian, with only a very few Nearctic species. All 

 the species of this subfamily, except one, are known to be gall makers. The one exception is 

 Tanaostigmodes tychii Ashmead, which was supposed to be parasitic on a seed weevil, Tychiiis, 

 when it was described. This rearing has not been repeated, and the record may be incorrect. 



Genus TANAOSTIGMODES Ashmead 



Tanaostig)iiodes Ashmead, 1896. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 4: 9, 18. 



Type-species: Tanaostig^tiodes howardii Ashmead. Orig. desig. 



Two of the species of Tanaostigmodes, albiclavzis Girault and hmvardii Ashmead, often have 

 cynipid inquilines in their galls. 



Revision: Crawford, 1911. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 40: 442. 

 albiclavus Girault. Ariz. Ecology: Produce large stem galls on Acacia greggi. Mimosa 

 biuncifera. 

 Taneostig)Hodes{\) albiclavus Girault, 1917. Descr. Stellarum Nov., p. 4. 9. 



howardii Ashmead. Ariz., Calif. Ecology: Produce small, spherical bud galls on Acacia greggi. 

 Mimosa biuncifera, Prosopis sp. 



Tanaostig)nodes howardii Ashmead, 1896. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 4: 19. 9. 

 slossonae Crawford. Fla. Ecology: Produce seed galls on Galactia striata, G. volubilis. 



Tanaostigmodes slossonae Crawford, 1911. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 40: 442. 9, 6. 

 tychii Ashmead. Calif. Host: Tychins semisquamosns Lee. 



Tanaostigmodes tychii Ashmead, 1896. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 4: 19. 9. 



