250 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



Termolampa pinicola Boucek 



Termolampa pinicola Boucek, 1961 : 60-61, $. 



Type material. Holotype $, Czechoslovakia, Bohemia, Tyniste nad Orlici, 8.viii. 

 1959 {Boucek), in Narodni Museum, Prague (Cat. no. 2967). 



Germany, Czechoslovakia. 



Biology. A female was reared 26. v. 1956 in the neighbourhood of Berlin, from 

 Evetria resinella (L.) (Lep., Tortricidae) (Schwenke), Boucek (1961 : 61). Imagines 

 May and August. 



ORMOCERINI 



(= Tridymini) 



Walker (1833 : 370) proposed the family name Ormoceridae, in which he included 

 not only true Ormocerines such as Ormocerus, Glyphe, Gastrancistrus and Meromalus, 

 but also other genera which have no close connection with them. Forster's family 

 Hormoceroidae (1856 : 19, 59) also contained diverse elements. Thomson's " tribe " 

 Tridymina (1876 : 192) was (if one excepts Metastenus) a natural group. The tribe 

 Tridymini of Ashmead (1904 : 273) included not only the genera placed there by 

 Thomson, but also some which are currently referred to other tribes or even 

 subfamilies. Schmiedeknecht (1909 : 274) followed Ashmead. Peck (in Muesebeck 

 et at., 195 1 : 545-547) also included the unrelated genus Trigonoderus in Tridymini. 

 Boucek (in Peck et al., 1964 : 30, 34, 35), regarding Tridyminae as a subfamily, 

 treated it in a wider sense, including Eunotini, Pirenini and Neodiparini, as well as 

 the genera referred in the present work to Ormocerini. I regard the Eunotine and 

 Neodiparine groups as relatively distinct ; I am treating Pirenini and Ormocerini 

 as distinct (though very closely allied) tribes of Miscogasterinae. Some genera 

 here placed in Ormocerini (e.g., Ormocerus) approach very closely to certain Misco- 

 gasterini on the other hand. These are only some of the difficulties which confront 

 any worker investigating the higher categories of Chalcidoidea. 



Ormocerini appear to be mainly parasites of Diptera (especially Cecidomyiidae), 

 although Ormocerus species have been reared from galls of Cynipidae, whilst other 

 hosts are recorded for certain species. 



Key to European Genera 



1 Males ............. 2 



- Females ............ 5 



2 (1) Antennae with six funicular segments ....... 3 



- Antennae with five funicular segments ....... 10 



3 (2) Antennal clava with three segments ; two very distinct anelli present (anten- 



nal formula n 263). Postmarginal vein of fore wing somewhat longer than 



the marginal vein .......... 4 



- Either the antennal clava has only two segments ; or else there is only one 



distinct anellus (the other being absent or so minute as to be invisible in 

 dried specimens). Postmarginal vein of fore wing rarely longer than the 

 marginal vein ........... 6 



