1144 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Taxonomy: Pschorn-Walcher, 1956. Schweiz. Ent. Gesell., Mitt. 29: 58-67. 



hirticollis Ashmead. Ont. (Ottawa). 



Monelata hirticollis Ashmead, 1888. Canad. Ent. 20: 54. 9. 



mellicollis Ashmead. Fla. (Jacksonville). 



Monelata iin-llicollis Ashmead, 1887. Canad. Ent. 19: 197. 9. 

 nigra Whittaker. B. C. (Hollyburn). 



Monelata nigra Whittaker, 1930. Ent. See. Wash., Proc. 32: 133. 9. 



Genus BASALYS Westwood 



Bsah/x Westwood, 1833. London, Edinb. and Dublin Phil. Mag. and Jour. Sci. (3) 3: 343. 



Type-species: Basahf.s fun/ipennis Westwood. Monotypic. 

 Tropidopsi.^ Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 386, 402. Preocc. by Brauer and 

 Bergenstamm, 1889. 



Type-species: Tropidop.sis clacata Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Ceratopria Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 407, 428. 



Type-species: Ceratopria lo)i(jiceps Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Aciclopria Kieffer, 1913. Insecta 3: 442. 



Type-species: Acidopria rariicor)ii.s Kieffer. Desig. by Kieffer, 1916. 

 Nexopria Muesebeck and Walkley, 1956. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 105: 374. N. name for 

 Tropidopsis Ashmead. 



A North American form was reared from a species of Anthomyiidae and another was found in 

 the nest of a bee. There is also a record of a European species having been collected in an ant 

 nest. Otherwise there seems to be nothing in the literature concerning the habits or host rela- 

 tions of members of this genus. 



Revision: Kieffer, 1916. Das Tierreich, Lief. 44, pp. 192-200. 



Taxonomy: Sundholm, 1960. Opusc. Ent. 25: 221. -Masner, 1964. Entomophaga 9: 85-86. 

 ashmeadianus (Kieffer). "Canada." 



Loxotropa asinneadiaiia Kieffer, 1916. Das Tierreich, Lief. 44, pp. 171, 190. 9. 

 californicus (Ashmead). Calif. (Santa Cruz Mts.). 



Loxotropa californica Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 413, 415. 9. 

 Basalys barda Masner and Muesebeck, 1968. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bui. 270: 8. Unnecessarily 

 proposed as a n. name for Loxotropa califoniica Ashmead. 

 columbianus (Ashmead). Md., D. C, Va. Ecology: Taken in nest of Lasioglossuni prni)ioiiH}H 

 (Robertson). 

 Loxotropa colnnibiana Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 413. 9. 

 Loxotropa riificornis Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 413, 414. 6. Preocc. by 



Thomson, i858. 

 Loxotropa aslniieadi Kieffer, 1911. /*( Andre, Spec. Hym. Eur. Alg., v. 10, p. 923. N. name 

 for L. ruficorni.s Ashmead. 



Ta.xonomy: Pouts, 1927. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 29: 167. 



Biology: Melander and Brues, 1903. Biol. BuL 5: 9, 23. 

 flavipes (Ashmead). Md., D. C, Va., 111. 



Loxotropa flaripes Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 413, 415. 9, S. 



fuscipennis Ashmead. D. C. 



Basali/s fnscipennis Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 443, 444. 6. 



ganahlii Dalla Torre. D. C. 



Basal i/s picipes Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 443, 444. 6. Preocc. by Nees, 



1834. 

 Basalys ganahlii Dalla Torre, 1898. Cat. Hym., v. 5, p. 432. N. name. 



longiceps (Ashmead). Va. (Arlington). 



Ceratopria longiceps Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 429. 9, (male misdet.). 

 microtoma Kieffer. Pa. (Sunbury). 



Basalys niicrotonia Kieffer, 1908. Soc. Sci. de Bruxelles, Ann. 32: 39. 6. 



