Superfamily PROCTOTRUPOIDEA 1151 



femorale Kieffer. Nev. (Ormsby County). 



Sparasion feniomle Kieffer, 1908, Soc. Sci. de Bruxelles, Ann. 32: 26. 6. 

 graenicheri Brues. Wis. (Milwaukee). 



Sparaison (!) graenicheri Brues, 1906. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bui. 4: 149. 9. 

 gregarium Brues. Md., Va. 



SparaisoH (!) gregarium Brues, 1907. Wis. Nat Hist. Soc* Bui. 5: 154. 9. 

 humile Kieffer. Pa. (Jeannette). 



Sparasioii hmnile Kieffer, 1908. Soc. Sci. de Bruxelles, Ann. 32: 26, 27. i. 

 nigrum Ashmead. Pa., Md., Va. 



SparasioH nignt))! Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 238, 239. 9, <S. 

 pacificum Ashmead. Wash., Calif. 



Sparasion pacificum Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 238, 239. 6. 

 pilosum Ashmead. Nev., Wash., Mont., Wye, Utah. Host: Anabr^s simplex Hald. 



Sparasion pilosum Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 238. 9, 6. 



Biology: Cowan, 1929. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 161: 22-23. —Mills, 1942. Mont. Agr. Expt. 

 Sta., Bui. 408: 11-13. 



Morphology: Snodgrass, 1941. Smithsn. Misc. Collect. 99, pp. 38-40. 



Genus SCELIOMORPHA Ashmead 



Sceliomorpha Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 210, 211, 239. 

 Type-species: Sceliomorpha longicornis Ashmead. Orig. desig. 



There are no described Nearctic species of Sceliomorpha, but the Cornell University collec- 

 tion contains an unnamed specimen from Florida, as communicated by L. Masner in correspon- 

 dence. 



Genus SCELIO Latreille 



Scelio Latreille, 1805. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., v. 13, p. 226. 



Type-species: Scelio rugulosns Latreille. Desig. by Latreille, 1810. 

 Scelionus Rafinesque, 1815. Analyse, p. 125. Emend. 

 Serlion Say, 1828. Contr. Maclur. Lye. Philadelphia 1: 80. Error. 

 Section Blanchard, 1849. Li Cuvier, Regne Animal, Ins., v. 2, p. 157; atlas pi. 116, fig. 4. 



Emend. 

 Aleria Marshall, 1874. Ent. Monthly Mag. 10: 208. 



Type-species: Aleria flavibarbis Marshall. Monotypic. 

 Caloptenobia Riley, 1878 (1877). U. S. Ent. Comn., Ann. Rpt. 1, p. 306. 



Type-species: Caloptenobia ovivora Riley. Monotypic. 

 Discelio Kieffer, 1908. Soc. Sci. de Bruxelles, Ann. 32: 116, 124. 



Type-species: Scelio tlioracicus Ashmead. Desig. by Kieffer, 1926. 

 Dichacaniha Kieffer, 1908. Soc. Sci. de Bruxelles, Ann. 32: 118,147. 



Type-species: Triiuorus luteus Cameron. Orig. desig. 

 Enneascelio Kieffer, 1910. Soc. Ent. de France, Bui. 1910: 293. 



Type-species: Enneascelio exaratus Kieffer. Orig. desig. 



Apparently all species of Scelio are parasitic in the eggs of grasshoppers. 



Revision: Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 241-247 (Nearctic species). —Kieffer, 

 1926. Das Tierreich, Lief. 48, pp. 308-345 (World species). — Dodd, 1927. Roy. Soc. 

 Queensland, Proc. 38: 127-175 (Australian fauna). —Nixon, 1958. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, 

 Trans. Ill: 303-313 (African species). — Muesebeck, 1972. Smithsn. Contrib. Zool. 102: 1-33 

 (Nearctic species). 



Biology: Pemberton, 1933. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, Proc 8: 253-264. —Noble, 1935. Agr. Gaz. N. S. 

 Wales 46: 513-518. -Noble, 1938. Agr. Gaz. N. S. Wales 49: 143-147. -Murai, 1962. 

 Yamagata Agr. and For. Soc, Jour. 20: 21-29. —Great head, 1963. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, 

 Trans. 114: 488. 



