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Picroscytoides obscurus Masi 



Picroscytoides obscurus Masi, 1922c : 151-154, $ $. 

 Picroscytoides obscurus Masi ; Nikol'skaya, 1952 : 232. 



Type material. Syntypes, Italy, Isle of Giglio, 4 $ captured in June and July, 

 3 $ in July, 1901 and 1902, presumably in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa. 



Italy, Turkey. 



Biology. Nikol'skaya (1952) says that the species parasitizes the " cereal 

 sawfly ", but I cannot trace the record on which this statement is based. 



Picroscytoides sp. indet. A. 

 Cyprus : Limassol, 2 $, 12.V.1934 and i.vi.1934 (Mavromoustakis). 



Picroscytoides cerasiops Masi 

 (Text-fig. 320) 



Picroscytoides cerasiops (Ruschka MS.) Masi, 1922c : 154-158, $ $. 

 Picroscytoides cerasiops Masi ; Menozzi, 1930 : 58. 



Type material. Syntypes, Italy, Isle of Giglio, 2 $ and 6 $, captured in July 

 1901 and 1902, presumably in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa ; specimens 

 taken in southern France (Prof. /. Lichtenstein) , location unknown ; one specimen 

 from Dalmatia, coll. Ruschka, Vienna. 



France, Italy, Dalmatia, PCyprus. 



I have not seen the types of this species, but have included it in my key on the 

 basis of females from Cyprus which I believe to be correctly determined. 



Biology. Menozzi (1930) recorded this species from the mainland of Italy as a 

 parasite of Lixus junci Boh. ; he remarked that it appeared to be an endophagous 

 parasite of the beetle larvae, though he admitted the possibility that it might be 

 acting as a hyperparasite through Br aeon intercessor Nees or Eurytoma sp., both 

 of which were present as primary parasites of the Lixus. The species was also 

 mentioned by the same author in other papers which the writer has not seen (1930a, 

 1934. 1936). 



Picroscytoides sp. indet. B. 

 Cyprus : Limassol, 16. vi. 1934, 1 $ (Mavroumoustakis) , specimen in BM(NH). 



Picroscytoides sp. indet. C. 

 Israel : Tiberias, 16.V.1945, 1 $ (Dr. Bytinski-Salz). 



