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Type material. Dinarmoides spihpterus Masi. Syntypes, 4 <j>, Italy, Isle of 

 Giglio, June 1903, in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa (not seen by the 

 writer). I have examined females from Central Europe which agree with Masi's 

 description of spihpterus. 



Gothbergia elymi Heqvist. Holotype $, Sweden, Gotska Sandon, 17.viii.1955 

 and paratype <$ in coll. Hedqvist (Stockholm) ; I have seen these specimens. 

 The species was synonymized with Dinarmoides spilopterus by Boucek (1958a : 400, 

 402). 



Sweden (Island of Gotska Sandon), Czechoslovakia, Italy (Isle of Giglio) ; 

 in sandy or xerothermic habitats. 



Biology. Unknown. Imagines June-August. 



STENOSELMA Delucchi 



Stenoselma Delucchi, 19566 : 65. Type-species : 5. nigrum Delucchi, by monotypy and original 

 designation. 



Only the type-species is so far known. 



Stenoselma nigrum Delucchi 



(Text-fig. 321) 



Stenoselma nigrum Delucchi, 19566 : 66, 67, figs. 1-5, o* ?• 



Type material. Syntypes, 2 $ (one the type), Italy, Tuscany, 4.ix.i95i, in coll. 

 Delucchi. I have not seen the type but have females from Czechoslovakia which 

 agree perfectly with Delucchi's description. 



Czechoslovakia, Italy, North Africa (probably widely distributed in the 

 Mediterranean and Central European regions). 

 Biology. Unknown. Imagines July-Sept. 



NO RB ANUS Walker 



Norbanus Walker, 1843c : 159. Type-species : N. dysaules Walker, by designation of Ashmead, 



1904 : 320. 

 Arthrolysis Forster, 1856 : 52. Type-species : Pteromalus scabriculusNees, 1834, by designation 



of Ashmead, 1904 : 276, 367. 

 Picroscytus Thomson, 1878 : 50, 58. Type-species : Pteromalus scabriculus Nees, by monotypy. 

 Stylophorella Ashmead, 1904 : 275, 389. Type-species : 5. perplexa Ashmead, by monotypy. 

 Arthrolysis Forster ; Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 284, 285, 287-288 [ex parte]. 

 Norbanus Walker ; Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 328, 356. 

 Picroscytus Thomson ; Szelenyi, 1941 : 116-131. 

 Picroscytus Thomson ; Nikol'skaya, 1952 : 231. 

 Norbanus Walker ; Peck in Muesebeck et al., 1951 : 565. 

 Norbanus Walker ; Peck, 1963 : 740-741. 

 Norbanus Walker ; Peck et al., 1964 : 46. 



Arthrolysis Forster, Picroscytus Thomson, and Stylophorella Ashmead, were 



