PTEROMALIDAE OF N.W. EUROPE 821 



Kranophorus pachycerus (Masi) comb. n. 

 Coelopisthia pachycera Masi, 1924a : 220, 2. 



Type material. Syntypes, Italy, Isle of Giglio, 9 $, captured in January, February, 

 June, July and November, 1901-1904 ; Camoligure, 1 ?, April, 1915 (A. Andreini), in 

 Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa ; lectotype not yet selected. 



Britain, Italy, Hungary. New to Britain ; England : Berkshire, Wytham 

 Wood, 1 $, 31. x. 1953 (Graham) ; Dorset, Portland, West Weares Cliff, 1 ?, 24.vii. 

 1935 (C. D. Day). 



Biology. Unknown. Imagines June, Aug.-Oct. 



CONOMORIUM Masi 



Conomorium (Mayr MS.) Masi, 1924a : 215-217. Type-species : Pteromalus eremita Forster, 



1 84 1, by monotypy. 

 Conomorium Masi ; Peck et al., 1964 : 41, 50. 



Conomorium patulum (Walker) 



Pteromalus patulus Walker, 1835 : 479, ?. 

 Pteromalus ampins Walker, 1835 : 480, 2- 

 Pteromalus Eremita Forster, 1841 : 29, 2- 

 Coelopisthus vitripennis Thomson, 1878 : 163, <$ 2- 

 Conomorium eremita (Forster), Masi, 1924a : 217-220, 2- 

 Conomorium patulum (Walker) Graham, 19566 : 257. 

 Conomorium patulum (Walker) ; Boucek, 1961c : 14. 



Type material. Pteromalus patulus Walker and P. amplus Walker. Lectotypes 

 designated by Graham (19566 : 257). 



Pteromalus eremita Forster. Type (not seen) in Naturhistorisches Museum, 

 Vienna ; the species was redescribed by Masi (1924a) from material compared with 

 the type. 



Coelopisthus vitripennis Thomson. Syntypes, 3 $, 4 <$. LECTOTYPE, a female 

 labelled " Rsio " [Ringsjo] and " vitripennis Ths ". 



Britain, Sweden, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Moldavian S.S.R., 

 Italy. 



Biology. The species has been recorded as a parasite of various Lepidoptera, 

 e.g. Hyphantria cunea Drury (Arctiidae) and Erannis bajaria (Schiff.) (Selidosemidae), 

 according to Boucek (1961c) ; also [under the name eremita] of Malacosoma neu- 

 strium (L.) (Lasiocampidae) in Sardinia (Secretariat, etc., 1957 : 320-328) ; of 

 Lithocolletis piatani Stgr. (Gracillariidae) and Paraleucoptera sinuella Reutti 

 (Lyonetiidae) in Italy (Secretariat, etc., 1966 : 119, 128). Imagines appear in the 

 field June-Oct. ; females possibly overwinter. 



