Superfamily BETHYLOIDEA 1211 



floridana Evans. Fla. (Paradise Key). 



Bakeriella floridana Evans, 1964. Mus. Compar. Zool, Bui. 132: 134, fig. 84. 6, 9. 



Genus HOLEPYRIS Kieffer 



Holejryris Kieffer, 1904. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Geneva, Ann. 41: 390. 



Type-species: Holepyris africanus Kieffer. Desig. by Kieffer, 1906. 

 Holepyris subg. Rysepyris Kieffer, 1906. In Andre, Spec. Hym. Eur. Alg., v. 9, p. 341. 



Type-species: Holepyris (Rysepyris) numidicus Kieffer. Desig. by Kieffer, 1914. 

 Misepyris Kieffer, 1913. Lab. Zool. Gen. e Agr. Portici, Bol. 7: 108. 



Type-species: Holepyris remotus Kieffer. Desig. by Kieffer, 1914. 

 Parepyris Brethes, 1913. Buenos Aires Mus. Nac. de Hist. Nat., An. 24: 87. 



Type-species: Parepyris sylvanidis Brethes. Monotypic. 



Authenticated host records indicate that members of this genus parasitize coleopterous lar- 

 vae, although in the laboratory they can be induced to attack Microlepidoptera also. One North 

 American species attacks larvae infesting grain, and another was reared from a beetle larva 

 beneath bark. 



coronatus (Ashmead). Md. (Bladensburg). Host: Catogenus rufus (F.). 

 Apenesia coroyiata Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 47. S. 



floridanus (Ashmead). Fla. 



Isobrachium floridanum Ashmead, 1887. Ent. Amer. 3: 76. S. 



haemorrhoidalis (Kieffer). Tex. 



Rhabdepyris haemorrhoidalis Kieffer, 1904. Arkiv. for Zool. 1: 528. 9. 



marylandicus Fouts. Md., N. C. 



Holepyris marylandicus Fouts, 1928. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 30: 125. 9. 



punctifrons Fouts. Fla. (Hawthorne). 



Holepyris punctifrons Fouts, 1927. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 29: 166. 9 . 

 subapterus (Melander and Brues). Mass. 



Empyris (!) subaptenis Melander and Brues, 1903. Biol. Bui. 5: 23. 9. 

 sylvanidis (Brethes). Widespread in U. S.; cosmopolitan. Host: Oryzaephilus surinamensis 

 (L.); Sitophihis oryza (L.); Tribolium castaneum (Hbst.); T. confusum Duv.; 

 Laemophloeus ferrugineus (Steph.). 

 Parepyris sylvanidis Brethes, 1913. Buenos Aires Mus. Nac. de Hist. Nat., An. 24: 87. 6, 



9. 

 Rhabdepyris zeae Turner and Waterson, 1921. Rpt. Grain Pests (War) Com. [Gt. Brit.], No. 

 9, p. 29. 9. 



Genus LAELIUS Ashmead 



Laelius Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 50. 



Type-species: Laelius trogodemiatis Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Paralaelius Kieffer, 1905. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ann. 29: 129. 



Type-species: Bethylus pedatus Say. Desig. by Kieffer, 1914. 



All authenticated host records for North American Laelius are larvae of Dermestidae, usually 

 in and around buildings. 



Revision: Muesebeck, 1939. Biol. Soc. Wash., Proc. 52: 171-176. 



centratus (Say). Fla., Ind., Colo. 



Bethylus centratus Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 281. 



occidentalis Whittaker. B. C. (Chilliwack). 



Laelius occidentalis Whittaker, 1928. Ent. Soc. London, Trans, p. 387. 9. 

 pedatus (Say). N. J., N. Y., D. C, Va., S. C, Fla., Ind., Colo, south to Mexico (Morelos). Host: 

 Anthremis verbasci (L.). 



Bethylus pedatus Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 280. 



Ateleopterus nubilipenyiis Ashmead, 1887. Ent. Amer. 3: 97. 9. 



Laelius tricarinatus Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 51. tj, 9. 



Laelius rufipes Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 51. 9. Preocc. 



