PTEROMALIDAE OF N.W. EUROPE 555 



Pteromalus epimelas Walker. Three females stand under this name, but none 

 agrees well with the description ; all are the same as sequester. 



Pteromalus simulans Walker. One female, LECTOTYPE (possibly holotype). 



Pteromalus oroetes Walker. Syntypes, 5 <$. Lectotype labelled " 38. 7. 12. 184 ". 



Semiotus apionis Goureau. Type material possibly lost ; I could find none so 

 named amongst the Goureau material in Paris and in Oxford. The description is 

 very brief but fits the female of Habrocytus sequester quite well ; and apionis was 

 reared from Apion ulicis, which has also been recorded as a host for sequester (see 

 below). 



Pteromalus eulimene Walker. One female, LECTOTYPE. 



Pteromalus leguminum Ratzeburg. Types presumed destroyed. The description, 

 and the presumed host material (Apion or Bruchus on Spartium scoparium) convince 

 me that it must have been the same as sequester. 



Pteromalus insularis Walker. One female, LECTOTYPE, labelled "Marshall 

 coll. 1904-120 " ; " insularis Wlk. (Corsica) " ; and (on the lower surface of the 

 card) " Corsica ". 



Britain, France, Corsica, Czechoslovakia. 



Biology. Reared in France from galls of Asphondylia mayeri Lieb. (Dipt., 

 Cecidomyiidae) on Sarothamnus scoparius (L.) Wimmer, Varengeville, S. Mar., 

 27.vii.1953 (J. Steffan) ; also Oedaule italica Masi in pods of Calycotome spinosa 

 Link, Menton, A. M., vi.1952 (/. Steffan). In the BM(NH) there are specimens 

 from Brussels, Belgium, reared from larvae of Apion fuscirostre (F.) in seeds of 

 Sarothamnus (Prof. P. Gerard). The species recorded in Britain by Davies 

 (1928 : 284), under the name Spintherus leguminum Ratzeburg, as a parasite of 

 Apion ulicis (Forst.), was Habrocytus sequester. Imagines June-Sept.; I have also 

 found females during the winter, amongst dead foliage of Ulex europaeus L. 



Habrocytus cionobius (Erdos) comb. n. 



? Habrocytus cionicida Lichtenstein, 1921 : 733-735, fig. ; 1416-1417. 

 Cecidostiba cionobia Erdos, 1953 : 228-230, $ $. 



Type material. Habrocytus cionicida Lichtenstein. Location of original material 

 unknown. This species was not formally described, but the name is available 

 because it was accompanied by an " indication " (in this case an account of its 

 biology). Judging from its host, Cionus thapsi (F.) it may well have been the 

 same as cionobius (Erdos). Because the types are not available and the adult was 

 not described, I reject the name in favour of cionobius. 



Cecidostiba cionobia Erdos. Syntypes, <$ and $, Hungary, Hogyesz, 21-23. viii. 

 1947, in coll. Erdos (not seen). 



Hungary ; ? Czechoslovakia, ? France. 



Biology. Reared in Hungary from cocoons of Cionus thapsi (F.) in fruits of 

 Verbascum phlomoides L., near Hogyesz, 21-23. viii. 1947 (/. Erdos). Imagines 

 ? July ; August. 



