Superfamily SCOLIOIDEA 1267 



Myzine (!) magna Krombein, 1938. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 64: 256. 6. 

 Taxonomy: Krombein, 1938. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 64: 256-259, fig. 5. 6, 9. 

 navajo Krombein. Ariz, south to El Salvador. 



Myzine (!) navajo Krombein, 1938. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 64: 272. 9,6. 

 obscurum (Fabricius). N. Y. to Fla., west to 111. and Tex., ? Ariz. Host: Dyscinetus 

 trachypygus (Burm.). Parasite: Dasymutilla mittata (BL). 

 Tiphia obscura Fabricius, 1805. Systema Piezatorum, p. 233. 9. 

 Plesia nigripes Guerin, 1838. Rev. Zool. 1: 57. 9. 

 Plesia fuliginosa Lepeletier, 1845. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., v. 3, p. 574. 6 . 



Taxonomy: Krombein, 1938. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 64: 246-249, fig. 3. 9,6. 

 quinquecinctum (Fabricius). Que. to Fla., west to Wyo. and N. Mex., Calif.; Mexico (Coahuila). 

 Host: Phyllophaga spp. Parasite: Dasymutilla quadriguttata (Say). 

 Tiphia 5-cincta Fabricius, 1775. Systema Ent., p. 353. 9. 

 Tiphia cingulata Klug, 1810. In Weber, Beitr. z. Naturk. 2: 185. 6. 

 Sapyga subulata Say, 1823. West. Quart. Rptr. 2: 75. 3. 

 Myzine (!) proxima Guerin, 1837. Diet. Pitt. Hist Nat., p. 581. 6. 



Taxonomy: Krombein, 1938. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 64: 265-272, fig. 6. 9, d. —Evans, 1965. 

 Ent. Soc Wash., Proc 67: 92, figs. 11-14 (larva). 



Biology: Flint and Sanders, 1912. Jour. Econ. Ent. 3: 490. —Davis, 1919. 111. Nat. Hist. 

 Survey, Bui. 13: 73. 



Morphology: Snodgrass, 1941. Smithsn. Inst., Misc. Collect. 99, no. 14, p. 44, pi. 14, figs. M-S 

 (male genitalia). 



serenum (Fabricius). S. C. 



Tiphia serena Fabricius, 1805. Systema Piezatorum, p. 234. 9. 

 spilonotum (Cameron). Tex., N. Mex., Colo., Utah, Ariz., south in western Mexico to Oaxaca. 



Plesia spilonota Cameron, 1908. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 34: 240. 9. 



Taxonomy: Krombein, 1938. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 64: 288-290, fig. 12. 9,6. 



Genus PTEROMBRUS Smith 



Pterombrus Smith, 1869. Ent. Soc. London, Trans., p. 302. 



Type-species: Pterombrus aenigynaticus Smith. Monotypic 

 Engycystis Fox, 1895. Calif. Acad. Sci., Proc. 4: 262. 



Type-species: Myzine (!) rufiventris Cresson. Monotypic. 

 Huberia Ducke, 1907. Rev. d'Ent. 26: 5. 



Type-species: Huberia glabricollis Ducke. Desig. by Krombein, 1937. 

 Pterombus (!) Williams, 1928. Hawaii. Sugar Planters' Assoc. Expt. Sta., Bui. Ent. Ser. 19: 

 144. 



Nothing is known of the habits of our sole North American species, but some of the South 

 American species are parasitic on larvae of two genera of Cicindehdae (Coleoptera). 



rufiventris hyalinatus Krombein. West. Tex., Ariz., Calif. 



Pterombrus rufiventris hyalinatus Krombein, 1949. Pan-Pacific Ent. 25: 88. 9, 6. 

 rufiventris rufiventris (Cresson). Va. south to Ga. to east. Tex. 



Myzine rufiventris Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 201. 6. 



Myzine cressonii Dalla Torre, 1897. Cat. Hym., v. 8, p. 122. N. name for Myzine rufiventris 

 Cresson, not Meria rufiventris Klug. 



Taxonomy: Krombein, 1938. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 64: 236-238, fig. 2. 9 , 6 . —Krombein, 

 1949. Pan-Pacific Ent. 25: 88. 



Subfamily ANTHOBOSCINAE 



Lalapa Pate, 1947. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 55: 126. 



Type-species: Lalapa lusa Pate. Orig. desig. 



