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Eurytoma albitarsis Ashmead, 1902. In Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent. Bui. 38: 88. 



Nom. nud. 

 EurytoDia aulocis Ashmead, 1892. /*; Brodie, Canad. Ent. 24: 12. Nom. nud. 

 Eurytoma cretlieis Wallier, 1843. Soc. Ent. de France, Ann. 2: 150. 9. Type fragmentary. 



Taxonomy: Burks, 1975. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent., Bui. 32 (4): 162. 

 Laniprosiylus floridcuiHH Ashmead, 1887. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 14: 193. 6. Species placed in 



Eurytoinu by Peck, 1951. In Muesebeck et «/., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2: 576. 



Species cannot be placed from unassociated male. 

 Eurytoma liegeli Girault, 1921. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 58: 207. Eurytoma hegeli var. maga 



Girault described, but Eurytoma liegeli Girault not described. 

 I.HONOVia neradensis Ashmead, 1894. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 21: 330. 6. Species placed in 



Eurytoma by Peck, 1951. ht Muesebeck et «/., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2: 577. 



Species cannot be placed from unassociated male. 

 Eurytoma orbiculata Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 272. 6. Type lost. 

 Macroglenes quercipisi Fitch, 1859. N. Y. State Agr. Soc, Trans. 18: 818. Species placed in 



Eurytoma by Ashmead, 1900. In Smith, N. J. State Bd. Agr., Ann. Rpt. 27, Sup., p. 554. 



Fragmentary specimen in U. S. N. M. labeled type does not agree with orig. descr. 



Family CHALCIDIDAE 



By B. D. Burks 



In 1923 Gahan and Fagan (U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 124: 24, 31, 133) changed the application of the 

 well-known names Chalcis, Brack ynieria, Smkra and Smiera. These names had been used ex- 

 tensively in the literature for almost a century. The changes very well may have been erroneous, 

 because of the fact that Gahan and Fagan had examined none of the types of the type-species in- 

 volved. Their conclusions were based entirely on a study of the literature, principally volume 5 

 of Dalla Torre's Catalogus Hymenopterorum, pubhshed in 1898. That work was a bibliographic, 

 not a taxonomic, one. However, these changes in the application of familiar names were accepted 

 by all subsequent workers except for Schmitz, who published a large work on the Ethiopian 

 Chalcididae in 1946. All other works in the world literature followed Gahan and Fagan. An enor- 

 mous literature that used these names as redefined by Gahan and Fagan has been published in 

 the last 50 years. It would be a mistake at this late date to try to reverse the changes made by 

 Gahan and Fagan, irrespective of their soundness. It should be kept in mind, however, that the 

 application of those names before and after 1923 is quite different. 



Taxonomy: Schmitz, 1946. Exploration Pare Natl. Albert, Mission De Witte, fasc. 48: 3-191 

 (African fauna). — Boucek, 1951. Mus. Natl. Pragae, Acta Ent. 27 (Sup.): 1-108 (European 

 fauna). — Erdos, 1955. Magyar. Allat. 12 (Hymenoptera 2, pt. 2): 7-11 (key to genera). 

 -Boucek, 1956. Res. Council Israel, Bui. 5B: 228-250 (Near East fauna). — Nikolskaja, 

 1960. Fauna SSSR (n. s.) 76: 41-191 (Russian fauna). — Habu, 1962. Fauna Japonica, 

 Chalcididae, Leucospididae, and Podagrionidae, pp. 2-164 (Japanese fauna). 



Biology: Steffan, 1958. Tenth Internatl. Cong. Ent., Proc. 1: 799-804 (world distrib.). 



Morphology: Steffan, 1957. Paris Mus. Natl. d'Hist. Nat., Bui. (2) 19: 315-322 (abdominal 

 petiole). 



Subfamily HALTICHELLINAE 



The questions that have remained pending for many years concerning the appHcation of the 

 generic names Halticliella and Hockeria should be referred to the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature for settlement. Usage of those names here follows the preponderant 

 application of those names in current literature. 



Revision: Steffan, 1951-1953. Feuille des Nat. (n. s.) 6: 1-7, 81-85; 8: 7-12, 33-36 (French 

 fauna). —Steffan, 1951. Paris Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Mem. (n. s., A) 4: 51-86 (genera related to 

 Euchalcidia). —Steffan, 1957. Soc Ent. de France, Ann. 126: 139-158 (genera related to 

 Chirocera). —Habu, 1960. Natl. Inst. Agr. Sci. Japan, Bui. (C) 11: 218-296 (Japanese 

 fauna). 



