80 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



recognized in Europe ; in the present paper a second species (suspensus (Nees)) is 

 regarded as valid. Other species have been described from North America ; 

 some of these might prove to be synonymous with suspensus. 



Key to European Species 



(Females) 



i Head in dorsal view (Text-fig. 80) with temples rather straight, only moderately 

 convergent, forming an angle with the occipital edge of the head ; speculum of 

 fore wing well-defined ; femora mainly fuscous to black, tibiae at least slightly 

 brownish, usually mainly fuscous to almost wholly black . vulgaris Walker (p. 80) 



Head in dorsal view (Text-fig. 79) with temples curved and rather strongly conver- 

 gent, not angulate posteriorly ; speculum of fore wing indistinct or absent ; legs, 

 not counting the coxae, testaceous with the femora sometimes more or less infuscate 

 proximally, rarely the tibiae with a dark ring . . . suspensus (Nees) (p. 82) 



(Males) 



1 Antennal scape more slender, 5-5 to 6 times as long as broad ; second anellus, at 

 most 1-5 times as broad as long ; funicular segments one to two (sometimes also 

 three) only slightly transverse ; pedicellus and flagellum brown to fuscous, or at 

 most testaceous beneath ...... vulgaris Walker (p. 80) 



- Antennal scape stouter, only about 4-5 times as long as broad ; second anellus nearly 

 twice as broad as long, all funicular segments distinctly transverse ; at least the 

 antennal clava testaceous, but more often the whole flagellum more or less so, 

 sometimes also the pedicellus ...... suspensus (Nees) (p. 82) 



Asaphes vulgaris Walker 

 (Text-fig. 80) 



Asaphes vulgaris Walker, 1834 : 152, $ $■ 



Eurytoma aenea Nees, 1834 : 42, $. 



Pteromalus petiolatus Zetterstedt, 1838 : 432, $, 



Chry solampus aeneus Ratzeburg, 1848 : 185, $. 



Isocratus vulgaris (Walker) Thomson, 1876a : 208, ex parte. 



Asaphes vulgaris Walker 

 Asaphes vulgaris Walker 

 Asaphes vulgaris Walker 

 Asaphes vulgaris Walker 



Kurdjumov, 1913 : 24, ex parte. 

 Dunn, 1949 : 104-105. 

 Bakkendorf, 1955 : 138, 144. 

 Peck, 1963 : 603-604. 



A number of other references are given by Peck (1963), but the species to which 

 some of these refer may not be the true vulgaris. 



Type material. Asaphes vulgaris Walker. One specimen that stands under this 

 name in the British collection of BM(NH) is not original material. In the foreign 

 section of this collection there are 11 specimens standing under the name Asaphes 

 vulgaris Walker, and these are clearly syntypes which have been misplaced. They 

 have been remounted on card-points, and all are labelled ' ' Asaphis [sic] aenea Nees. 

 Stood under this name in the old B.M. collection. C. Waterhouse ". Walker himself 

 (1846 : 23) placed vulgaris in synonymy with [Eurytoma] aenea Nees and, incidently 

 mispelt the generic name as " Asaphis " . He also noted (op. cit. : 24) that specimens 



