1964] 
Masner — Scelioirachelus 
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The description should be completed and corrected. There are 
no “tufts of long yellow hairs” on the propodeum which Brues com- 
pares with those of some myrmecophilous beetles (e.g. Lomechusa 
Gr.). There is a compact hyaline membrane, just as in Isolia Forst., 
Fidiobia Ashm. and Platygastoides Dodd. Consequently, there is no 
reason to suggest that Sceliotrachelus Brues is a myrmecophilous in- 
sect. The long dense hairs are found on the base of first as well as 
second tergite of the gaster. 
The figure in Brues (1908) is, as a whole, not very exact and 
therefore we prefer to give a detailed drawing of the insect here (Fig. 
1). 
Pulchrisolia Szabo becomes inevitably a synonym of Sceliotrachelus 
Brues. The holotype of Pulchrisolia maculata Szabo (a female from 
Shirati, East Africa) was examined and found to belong to Scelio- 
trachelus Brues. So far no more material is available. We prefer to 
keep both — braunsi Brues and maculatus Szabo — as independent 
species. The necessary nomenclatorial formality is as follows — Scelio- 
trachelus maculatus (Szabo, 1959) — new combination ( = Pul- 
chrisolia maculata Szabo, 1959). 
Acknowledgements 
The author is obliged to Dr. Howard E. Evans (Museum of 
Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.), Dr. 
Janos B. Szabo (Hungarian State Institute of Hygiene, Budapest) 
and Dr. Edgar F. Riek (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial 
Research Organization, Canberra A.C.T.) for the kind loan of the 
necessary type material. 
References 
Brues, C. T. 
1908. In Wytsman: Genera Insectorum, Scelionidae, fasc. 80. 
Kieffer, J. J. 
1926. Scelionidae. Das Tierreich, 48 :606. 
Szabo, J. B. 
1959. Notes on the New Tribus Amitini with the Descriptions of a New 
Genus and Some New Species of the Arctogaea (Hymenoptera, 
Proctotrupoidea, Platygasteridae) . Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Nat. 
Hung., 51:389-396. 
Explanation of Plate 1 
Fig. 1 . Sceliotrachelus braunsi Brues, male paratype. Fig. 2. Platygastoides 
mirabilis Dodd, female. Fig. 3. Platygastoides mirabilis Dodd, female, head, 
Fig. 4. Platygastoides mirabilis Dodd, female, antenna. 
