PTEROMALIDAE OF N.W. EUROPE 485 



2 (1) Antenna with clava only about as long as 2-5 of the preceding funicular 



segments ; funicular segments, except sometimes the sixth, longer than 

 broad, the first at least slightly longer than the pedicellus. Larger species, 

 length 2-1 to 2-5 mm. ...... ? parviclava sp. n. (p. 487) 



Antenna with clava slightly longer than the three preceding funicular seg- 

 ments together ; at most some of the funicular segments very slightly longer 

 than broad, the first shorter than or at most as long as the pedicellus. 

 Smaller species, 1-7 to 2 mm. ........ 3 



3 (2) Antenna with funicular segments quadrate, or the proximal ones very slightly 



longer than broad ...... intermedia sp. n. (p. 487) 



- Antenna with funicular segments very slightly transverse, or at most the 



proximal ones quadrate .... grandiclava (Walker) (p. 486) 



Sceptrothelys deione (Walker) 



(Text-figs. 367-370) 



Miscogaster Deione Walker, 1839 : 199, $. 



Pteromalus Char ops Walker, 1839 : 242, <$, syn. n. 



Dicyclus deione (Walker) Walker, 1846 : 28. 



Pteromalus Aeacus Walker, 1848 : 211, $. 



Metopon punctatum Thomson, 1878 : 169, $. 



Metopon aeneiscapus Thomson, 1878 : 169, $, syn. n. 



Sceptrothelys deione (Walker) Graham, 1956 : 91-92, £ <j>. 



. ; Eurydinota lividicorpus Girault, 1917c : 86-87. 



? Eurydinota leptomera Bakkendorf, 1955 : 148 [nee Forster, 1878]. 



Type material. Miscogaster deione Walker and Pteromalus aeacus Walker. 

 Lectotypes designated by Graham (1956 : 92). 



Pteromalus charops Walker. Syntypes, 3 <$. LECTOTYPE, the first specimen, 

 bearing a Waterhouse label ; it is a large male of deione. 



Metopon punctatum Thomson. One $, LECTOTYPE, labelled " Reftera " and 

 " transitus ad hona in Foer " ; at first sight it looks different from deione but I 

 now consider it must a very large robust example of that species. 



Metopon aeneiscapus Thomson. Syntypes, 3 $ LECTOTYPE, one labelled 

 " Hg " [Halsingborg] on a mauve label, and " aeneiscapus Ths ". 



From Dr. O. Peck (Ottawa) I have received specimens, identified as Eurydinota 

 lividicorpus Girault, which are the same as Sceptrothelys deione (Walker). Presum- 

 ably therefore E. lividicorpus (19170 : 86-87 ; reared from Coleophora malivorella 

 Riley) (Lep., Coleophoridae) is a synonym of deione. Incidentally, Boucek's state- 

 ment (1965ft : 550) attributing lividicorpus Girault to the genus Spaniopus Walker 

 was a lapsus [personal communication]. 



Britain, Sweden, ? Iceland ; North America. 



Biology. Reared in England " from rose leaves, probably a parasite of Nepticula 

 (=Stigmella) centifoliella (Zell.) " in 1932, by E. G. R. Waters (specimen in Hope 

 Department, Oxford). Four species of Coleophora are cited as hosts of Eurydinota 

 lividicorpus Gir. by Peck (1963 : 627-628). Imagines May, July-Sept. 



Note. The species recorded from Iceland as Eurydinota leptomera Forster by 



