48 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



Sweden, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Moldavian S.S.R. 



Biology. Boucek (1961 : 56) examined a female from northern Germany which 

 had been reared 10.viii.1926 from a mine of Scaptomyza flaveola Mg. (Dipt., Dros- 

 ophilidae) on Cakile maritima Scop., by O. Hering. Imagines Aug. and November. 



Spalangiopelta dudichi Erdos 



Spalangiopelta dudichi Erdos, 1956 : 193-194, fig. 2, $. 

 Spalangiopelta dudichi Erdos ; Graham, 1966 : 188, §. 



Type material. Syntypes, Hungary, 14 § from several localities, in coll. Erdos 

 and in Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 



Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Moldavian S.S.R. 



Biology. Unknown ; the specimens so far taken have been captured between 

 October and March, in one case under moss. 



Note. The figure of dudichi given by Erdos in his paper of 1956 is Fig. 2, which 

 is labelled [in error, see corrigenda to his paper] " Pseudotorymus semicarinatus ". 



Spalangiopelta procera Graham 



Spalangiopelta procera Graham, 1966 : 187-188, $. 



Type material. Holotype $, England, Berkshire, Wytham Wood, 23. ix. i960, in 

 Hope Department, University Museum, Oxford. 



Britain, Ireland, Sweden. 



Biology. Unknown. Imagines in Sept. 



SPALANGIINAE 



Includes only a single genus, Spalangia Latreille. It is a very distinct group and 

 may be worthy of family rank (for a discussion of this question, see Boucek, 1963 : 

 431-433)- 



SPALANGIA Latreille 



Spalangia Latreille, 1805 : 227-228. Type-species : 5. nigra Latreille, by monotypy. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Haliday, 1833 : 268, 333-335. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Curtis, 1839 : folio 740. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Forster, 1850 : 505-518. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Forster, 1851 : 1-5. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Thomson, 1878 : 207, 214-215. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Ashmead, 1904 : 334. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 386-387. 



Prospalangia Brethes, 1915 : 314. Type-species : P. platensis Brethes, by original designation. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Nikol'skaya, 1952 : 250-253. 



Spalangia Latreille ; Boucek, 1963 : 429-512. 



Boucek's excellent monograph on Spalangia (1963) includes a key to, and full 

 descriptions of, all the described Holarctic species, illustrated by admirable figures. 



