PTEROMALIDAE OF N.W. EUROPE 137 



Type material. Syntypes, 4 $, 5 £, Germany, Giessen, 1956, reared from puparia 

 of Melanagromyza cuscutae Her. (H. Scherf), in Museum d'Histoire naturelle, Geneva. 



Germany, Moldavian S.S.R. 

 Biology. See above. 



Sphegigaster orobanchiae Kurdjumov 



Sphegigaster orobanchiae Kurdjumov, 1912 : 233-234,^ $. 

 Sphegigaster orobancliiae Kurdjumov ; Ferriere, 1959 : 99. 



Type material. Syntypes 3 $, and 1 <?, Russia, Kursk and in province of Charkov, 

 reared 1907-1908 from Phytomyza orobanchiae Kalt., ; location not known to the 

 writer (? in Zoological Museum, Leningrad). 



I do not know this species, which appears to be very near cuscutae Ferriere. 

 Ferriere (1959) says that orobanchiae differs from cuscutae chiefly in having the 

 antennae shorter with the sixth funicular segment transverse, in having the scape 

 green, and the body coppery green with the propodeum and the petiole bluish. In 

 the female of cuscutae the antennae have the sixth funicular segment fully as long as 

 broad, whilst the scape is testaceous and the body is black with obscure green 

 reflections on the head and thorax. 



Central Europe, U. S.S.R. 



Biology. Parasite of Phytomyza orobanchiae Kalt. in Russia (Kurdjumov, 1912). 



SYNTOMOPUS Walker 



Syntomopus Walker, 1833 : 371, 372. Type-species : S. thoracicus Walker, by designation of 



Westwood, 1839 : 69. 

 Syntomopus Walker ; Forster, 1856 : 52, 56. 

 Syntomopus Walker ; Thomson, 1878 : 17, 23. 

 Syntomopus Walker ; Ashmead, 1904 : 330, 331. 

 Syntomopus Walker ; Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 374, 375, 376-377. 

 Syntomopus Walker ; Nikol'skaya, 1952 : 247-248. 

 Syntomopus Walker ; Peck et al., 1964 : 40. 



Key to European Species 



1 Female with head fully as high as broad, in frontal view appearing almost 



subrectangular, with genae strongly buccate ; eyes separated by hardly 

 more than their own length ; POL about twice OOL ; all funicular seg- 

 ments of antenna strongly transverse ; hind margin of basal tergite of 

 gaster entire. Male with POL about twice OOL ; genae obviously buccate 



oviceps Thomson (p. 138) 

 Female with head broader than high, in frontal view appearing oval, with 

 genae less buccate and converging towards the oral fossa ; eyes separated 

 rather more widely ; POL at most 1-5 OOL ; first funicular segment of 

 antenna at most slightly transverse ; hind margin of basal tergite of gaster 

 often incised. Male with POL at most 1-7 OOL ; genae only slightly 

 buccate ............ 2 



