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and was a Psilocera, immediately suggested that it might be the missing pandens

. On checking it against WALKER'

s original description, I found that it agreed very well indeed. Although some of the labels are puzzling, I have no doubt that this specimen is a syntype, or even the holotype of pandens

. As WALKER did not mention how many specimens he saw, I now designate this male as Lectotype of Pteromalus pandens WALKER, 1872. The lectotype male has the following characters: Length of body about 3.7 mm; antennái scape and tibiae reddish, the mid tibiae slightly darker medially; antenna with combined length of pedicellus and flagellum about 1. 5 times the breadth of the head; pedicellus hardly one third as long as the first funicular segment; 6 funicular segments separated by peduncles, clava 3-segmented; first funicular segment (nodosepart only) about 3.5 times as long as broad, second segment about 2.5 times, third about twice, as long as broad remaining segments decreasing in length but even the sixth about 1.5 times as long as broad; bristles of flegellum very numerous, slightly curved, stiff, standing out at angles of between 35° and 45°; length of these bristles fully two thirds the breadth of the segments that bear them; clava about 4 times as long as broad. Forewing lightly in fumate (rather more strongly over the middle third)

, quite densely pilose beyond the speculum. Propodeum with very strong complete median carina and costula; length of propodeum 21.5 (of which the nucha occupies 8), costula intersecting the median carina at 7.2 from the base

. The lectotype runs, in My Key to European species (GRAHAM, 1969 : 463) to couplet 1 and atra (WALKER). Males of atra differ in being much smaller (maximum length 2.2 mm), with the antennái scape mainly or entirely black, the tibiae usuaUy more or less heavily infuscate or mainly black; combined length of pedicellus and flagellum only 1.3 -1.35 times the bradth of the head; pedicellus more than half as long as the first funicular segment, the latter at most 1.8 times as long as broad, second funicular segment only slightly longer than broad, following segments almost quadrate, sixth quadrate. No other specimens of pandens have been seen. Regarding the type-locality of pandens

, Torla is a small town in the Spanish Pyrenees, just south-west of Monte Perdido in the province of Huesca. Four species of Psilocera are now recognised from Europe. I have seen at least one other undescribed form which appears to be a distinct species, but there is considerable intraspecific variation in Psilocera and the elucidation of its species on the Continent may prove troublesome. I wish to thank Dr. JENŐ PAPP and his assistants in the Hymenoptera section of the Hungarian Natural History Museum for their kind help during my visit. GRAHAM, M. W. R. de V.: A Pteromalus pandens Walker faj typusa a Természettudományi Múzeumban, Budapesten (Hymenoptera) A szerző budapesti tartózkodásakor a Természettudományi Múzeum Hymenoptera gyűjteményében felfigyelt egy állatra, amely az alaposabb vizsgálat után az elveszettnek hitt Pteromalus pandens WALKER faj tipusának bizonyult. A szerző adja a typus alapján készített részletes redescriptiót is. 72