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[a Psilocera] does not agree with the description. In Westwood's collection there is 

 a Walker male which stands below a label " Prosodes " and bears a label " ater ", 

 both in Walker's handwriting ; it agrees well with the description and is designated 

 LECTOTYPE. There are also several Prosodes in Haliday's collection, 3 $ of which 

 are labelled as ater ; one of these may have been that figured by Haliday (1841- 

 1842 : pi. C, figs. 3, 3a). 



Cryptoprymnus cavigena Thomson. Syntypes, 5 specimens ; LECTOTYPE, a 

 $ labelled " Him " [Holmiae = Stockholm]. 



Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia ; uncommon. 



Biology. Unknown ; the species may be associated with some host on coniferous 

 trees, as it has been taken in Czechoslovakia on Abies (Boucek, 1961 : 71) and I have 

 swept it in Britain from foliage oiPinus sylvestris L. Imagines June-August. 



The species recorded as " Cryptoprymna ater Walker " from Iceland and Greenland 

 by Bakkendorf (1955 : 146, figs. 7, 21, 35) clearly belongs to some other genus. 



NOVITZKYANUS Boucek 



Novitzkyanus Boucek, 1961 : 68. Type-species : N. cryptogaster Boucek, by original designation. 



Only one species known in Europe ; another (N. tridentatus Delucchi) has been 

 described from Morocco (Delucchi, 1962 : 118). 



Novitzkyanus cryptogaster Boucek 



Novitzkyanus cryptogaster Boucek, 1961 : 70-71, <? ?• 



Type material. Holotype $, Southern France, Department of Var, Agay, v. 1927 

 (Obenberger) in Narodni Museum, Prague (Cat. no. 2969). 



France, Isle of Rhodes, U.S.S.R. 



Biology. Unknown. Boucek (1961: 71) suggests that it might be a parasite of 

 mining insects in stems of cruciferous plants. Imagines April-May and August- 

 September. 



CYRTOGASTER Walker 



Cyrtogaster Walker, 1833 : 371, 381. Type-species : C. rufipes Walker, by designation of 



Westwood, 1839 : 68. 

 Dicormus Forster, 1841 : 38. Type-species : D. aquisgranensis Forster, by monotypy. 

 Cyrtogaster Forster, 1856 : 52, 53, 54-55. 



Cyrtogaster Walker 

 Cyrtogaster Walker 

 Cyrtogaster Walker 

 Cyrtogaster Walker 

 Cyrtogaster Walker 

 Cyrtogaster Walker 



Thomson, 1878 : 18, 25. 



Ashmead, 1904 : 331, 332. 



Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 375, 376, 382-383 [ex parte]. 



Nikol'skaya, 1952 : 248. 



Peck et al., 1964 : 38. 



Askew, 1965 : 179-195. 



The genus Dicormus was synonymized with Cyrtogaster by Forster himself (1856 

 55). The species of Cyrtogaster have recently been revised by Askew (1965). 



