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Sweden (Mr. Sven J ohanssen) , from M acrocentrics linearis (Nees) (Hym., Braconidae) ; 

 also some reared 14.viii.1g40 from cocoons of Apanteles glomeratus (L.) on Pieris 

 brassicae L. collected at Shotover, Oxford (E. Taylor and P. M. Miles). A female 

 in the BM(NH) from Pakistan (determined as radialis Thomson and reared from a 

 larva of the Pyralid Notarcha ruralis Scop, on Urtica dioica L.) appears to be identical 

 with dispar (Curtis). Imagines July-Sept. 



Ruschka (1924 : 12) recorded Habrocytus radialis Thomson as having been reared 

 from Anthonomns varians Payk. in Sweden, and stated that he had compared his 

 specimens with a Thomson specimen in Vienna. There is reason to suppose that 

 he misidentified radialis ; a female in the BM(NH) determined by him as radialis 

 is not that species but probably jasciatus Thomson. 



The CAPREAE-Grovp 

 Habrocytus capreae (Linnaeus) sensn Thomson 



Cynips capreae Linnaeus, 1761 : 388, no. 1531. 



Etroxys (Habrocytus) capreae (Linnaeus) Thomson, 1878 : 122,0* ?• 



? Habrocytus capreae (Swederus) ; Peck, 1963 : 725. [nee Pteromalus capreae Swederus, 1795.] 



Type material. I cannot locate any possible types either in the Linnean collection 

 or elsewhere. Under these circumstances it seems advisable to select a neotype. 

 In Thomson's collection 8 specimens stand as capreae ; one of them, a female 

 labelled " Die " [Dalecarlia] " Bhn " [Boheman] and " Capreae Lin " could be 

 designated neotype of Cynips capreae Linnaeus, 1761, but it will be necessary to 

 apply to the Commission to have this selection validated. 



? Britain (Blood coll., Oxford : 2 $, unlocalized but probably British ; Sweden, 

 Finland, Italy ; but no doubt more widely distributed in Europe. Recorded 

 from Alaska according to Peck (1963). 



Biology. Reared in Italy from galls of Pontania viminalis L. on Salix sp. (Prof. 

 E. Tremblay, Portici) ; I have examined the specimens. 



Habrocytus sp. indet. D 

 England : Buckinghamshire, Hell Coppice, 1 $, 2.viii.ig53 (Graham). 



Habrocytus dolichurus Thomson 

 (Text-fig. 421) 



? Entedon albipes Zetterstedt, 1838 : 430, $. 



? Pteromalus excrescentium Ratzeburg, 1848 : 197 [ex parte]. 



Habrocytus dolichurus Thomson, 1878 : 119, <$ $. 



Habrocytus capreae Thomson ; Carleton, 1939 : 597, 611-615, fig. 9 [nee Thomson]. 



Type material. Entedon albipes Zetterstedt. TYPE <$ in Zetterstedt collection, 

 mounted on the same pin as the types of Cynips tibialis Zett. and Eulophus aethiops 

 Zett. It bears a comprehensive label in Zetterstedt's handwriting, reading " 1. Cyn. 



