460 M. W. R. d£ V. GRAHAM 



weakly fuscous-marked. Malar space virtually two thirds the length of an 

 eye. Antenna with scape reaching well above level of vertex ; proximal 

 segments of funicle, except in small specimens, longer than broad ; flagellum 

 uniformly brown to fuscous ..... elongata (Thomson) (p. 460) 

 Either the anterior margin of the clypeus is very shallowly emarginate, almost 

 truncate ; or else the fore tibia are blackish at apex and the fore tarsi are 

 annulated with fuscous or black. Malar space slightly less than two thirds 

 the length of an eye. Antennae with scape reaching at most slightly above 

 level of vertex ; proximal segments of funicle usually subquadrate, some- 

 times slightly longer than broad ........ 2 



2 (1) Fore tibiae blackish at apex ; spur black; fore tarsi annulated with fuscous or 



black. Wings fully developed. Anterior margin of clypeus distinctly 

 emarginate. Antennal flagellum testaceous with the clava brownish 



ferrierei Boucek (p. 460) 

 Fore tibiae testaceous ; spur pale ; fore tarsi not annulated with fuscous. 

 Fully winged or brachypterous. Anterior margin of clypeus very shallowly 

 emarginate. Antennal flagellum uniformly coloured, testaceous to brownish 3 



3 (2) Wings fully developed. Gaster, dorsally, usually immaculate or with a reddish 



spot in the basal half, rarely the whole basal half reddish bicolor Spinola (p. 460) 

 Wings rudimentary. Gaster, dorsally, having its basal half or so usually 



reddish ....... pyrrhogaster (Walker) (p. 462) 



Callitula elongata (Thomson) 



Merisus (Baeotomus) elongatus Thomson, 1878 : 62, $. 

 Callitula elongata (Thomson) Boucek, 1964 : 10, 14-15, (J $. 



Type material. One female, LECTOTYPE (but probably holotype), labelled 

 " Him " [Holmiae], " Bhn " [Boheman] and " elongatus Ths ". 

 The species has been redescribed by Boucek (1964). 



Sweden, Czechoslovakia. 



Biology. Unknown, but the species appears to be associated with Phragmites. 

 Imagines July. 



Callitula ferrierei Boucek 



Callitula fevrierei Boucek, 1964 : 10, 11-14, <$ $. 



Type material. Holotype $, Czechoslovakia, Bohemia, Novy Hradec Kralove, 

 22.vii.1955, on Phragmites {Boucek) in Narodni Museum, Prague (Cat. no. 25660). 



Britain, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Moldavian S.S.R. 



Biology. Host not known, but the species appears to be associated with 

 Phragmites. Imagines chiefly July-Sept., some British records for April and May. 



Callitula bicolor Spinola 



(Text-fig. 299) 



Callitula bicolor Spinola, 181 1 : 151. 



Micromelus rufo-maculatus Walker, 1833 : 465, <J $. 



Pteromalus plagiatus Nees, 1834 : 115, $. 



