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tischeriae Howard. N. J., D. C, Va., Kans. Host: Tischeria solidaginifoliella Clem. 



Elasmus tischeriae Howard, 1885. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 5: 30. 9. 

 zigzag Girault. Fla. 



ElasniuH zigzag Girault, 1917. Descr. Stellarum Nov., p. 16. 9. 



Unplaced species of Elasmus Westwood 



The following species were described from unassociated males and cannot at present be 

 placed. See Burks, 1965. Biol. Soc. Wash., Proc. 78: 203. 



ElasDius pullatus Howard, 1885. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 5: 30. d. 

 Elaii)iiits variuH Howard, 1885. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 5: 29. 6. 



Family MYMARIDAE 



By B. D. Burks 



All members of this family are egg parasites. The mymarids are easily recognized as a distinct 

 family, but their fundamental thoracic structure shows them to have been derived from the 

 same stem that produced the present-day Eulophidae. 



Revision: Girault, 1929. N. Amer. Hym. Mymaridae, pp. 6-27. — Debauche, 1949. Mus. Roy. 

 Hist. Nat. Belg., Mem. 108: 1-248 (Palearctic fauna). —Debauche, 1949. Cong. Belg., Inst. 

 Pares Nat., E.xpl. Pare Nat. Albert, Miss, de Witte, 49: 1-105 (Ethiopian fauna). — Kryger, 

 1950. Ent. Meddel. 26: 1-97 (Palearctic fauna). — Annecke and Doutt, 1961. So. Afr. Dept. 

 Agr., Tech. Ser., Ent. Mem. 5: 1-71 (World genera). 



Subfamily ALAPTINAE 



Tribe ANAGRINI 



Genus ANAGRUS Haliday 



Anagrus Haliday, 1833. Ent. Mag. 1: 346. 



Type-species: Iclnieuiiion afo>nus Linnaeus. Desig. by Westwood, 1840. 

 Ptemto))ius Packard, 1864. Essex Inst., Proc. 4: 137. 



Type-species: Pieratonius putnaiuii Packard. Monotypic. 

 Packardiella Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 364. N. name, unnecessarily 



proposed for PterafoDiits Packard. 

 Paranagntu Perkins, 1905. Hawaii. Sugar Planters' Assn., Div. Ent. Bui. 1: 199. 



Type-species: Paranagrufi optabilis Perkins. Desig. by Gahan and Fagan, 1923. 

 armatus (Ashmead). Ont., Conn., and N. Y., s. to Fla., w. to Oreg. and Calif.; West Indies, 

 South Amer., Hawaii, Australia. Host: Delphacodes sp., Edwardsiana rosae (L.), 

 Empoaxca fabae (Harr.), Typhlocyba poniaria McAtee. 

 Litus armafus Ashmead, 1887. Canad. Ent. 19: 193. 9. 

 Eustochits xanfhothorax Ashmead, 1887. Canad. Ent. 91: 193. 9. 



Anagnis colnnibi Perkins, 1905. Hawaii. Sugar Planters' Assn., Div. Ent. Bui. 1: 198. 9. 

 Anagrus spiritiis Girault, 1911. Ent. News 22: 207. 9, 6. 



Taxonomy: Girault, 1911. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 37: 277, 289. 



Biology: Childs, 1918. Oreg. Agr. E.xpt. Sta., Bui. 148: 27. 

 delicatus Dozier. 111., Calif. 



Anagrus delicatus Dozier, 1936. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, Proc 9: 177. 9, S. 

 epos Girault. Pa., Md., Va., Fla., 111., N. Mex., Calif. Host: Edwardsiana prunicola (Edw.), 

 E)npoa sea fabae (Harr.), Erythroneura comes (Say), E. plena Beamer, Typhlocyba 

 poniaria McAtee, T. quercus (F.). 

 Anagrus epos Girault, 1911. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 37: 292. 9, 6. 



Biology: Ackerman, 1919. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bui. 805: 28. — Mulla, 1956. Jour. Econ. Ent. 49: 

 438-441. -Mulla, 1957. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 50: 85. 



