PTEROMALIDAE OF N.W. EUROPE 537 



Type material. Pteromalus aurantiacus Ratzeburg. Types presumed destroyed. 

 The description suggests the male of Habrocytus hieracii Thomson, which has a 

 rather distinctive coloration. 



Habrocytus hieracii Thomson. Syntypes on 9 pins. The first pin carries 4 $ 

 (one LECTOTYPE) and is labelled " Lhw 9/6 " ; "in Gall. G. Hieracii " ; and 

 " Hieracii Ratz " [sic]. 



Britain, Sweden ; no doubt more widely distributed in Europe. 



Biology. Reared in England from Phanacis centaureae Forst. on Centaurea 

 scabiosa L. (M. Niblett). Thomson (1878 : 129) stated that it had been reared in 

 Sweden from " Cynips hieracii and tragopoginis " [=Aulacidea hieracii (Bouch£) 

 and A. tragopogonis Thorns.]. Imagines in May, July, and Sept. 



Species sola 



Habrocytus crassinervis Thomson 



Habrocytus crassinervis Thomson, 1878 : 118, <$ $. 



Type material. Several syntypes. The first pin of the series carries 2 $ and 1 <$ 

 and is labelled " Bas " [Bastad] and " crassinervis " ; the uppermost of the two 

 females is designated LECTOTYPE. 



Sweden, Czechoslovakia. 



Biology. Reared in Sweden by Hedqvist and in Czechoslovakia by Boucek, 

 from Miarus campanulae (L.) on Campanula (unpublished information kindly 

 supplied by Dr. Boucek). Imagines July-August. 



The species described as crassinervis by Masi (1909 : 15-17) from material reared 

 from an Ichneumonid parasitizing Heliothis peltigera Schiff. was probably not the 

 true crassinervis. 



The /IZTC/S-Group 



Habrocytus altus (Walker) 



(Text-figs. 387, 395) 



Eutelus altus Walker, 1834 : 367, <$ $. 

 Eutelus fuscipennis Walker, 1834 : 368, $, syn. n. 

 Eutelus altus Walker ; Kurdjumov, 1913 : 21. 

 Habrocytus altus (Walker) Boucek, 1965c : 8. 



Type material. Eutelus altus Walker. Syntypes, 1^,1$. LECTOTYPE, the 

 female specimen, bearing a Waterhouse label. 



Eutelus fuscipennis Walker. Syntypes, 1 <£, 3 $. LECTOTYPE, a female 

 bearing a Waterhouse label ; also, on the lower surface of the card, the letter " W " 

 [probably standing for Windsor Forest, the type-locality]. 



Britain, Czechoslovakia, Moldavian S.S.R. 

 Biology. Unknown. Imagines May-July. 



