Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 8. (Budapest 1957)

Szelényi, G.: The genera of the subfamily Monodontomerinae (Hym. Chalcidoidea)

but treated in her monograph the genera Lochites Först. and Liodontomerus Gah. once again as distinct ones. These two genera, however, are doubtless identical, and in accordancewith this fact the species were listed by M u e s e b e c k & al. in 1951 under the generic name Liodontomerus, the name Lochites being preoccupied. Establishing this synonymy, the changing of the generic name Lochites in Lochitisca by Ghesquière in 1946 proved to be unnecessary. The subfamily Monodontomerinae comprises up to the present 26 genera and 1 subgenus, Dibaeomerus, erected by Erdős in 1954 as a subgenus of Eridontomerus Crawf. In this, paper I publish the description of two new genera : Lochitimorpha gen. nov. Head and thorax with velvetlike appearance, very sharply and deeply punctured, dull and covered with silvery white scalelike hairs ; antennae with two ring joints, inserted on the lower eye line, strongly clavate club with a short tuft of hyaline setae; occipital foramen not margined; thorax somewhat flattened above ; propodeum a little longer than the metanotum, reticulate, shining, with delicate median carina. No spiracular sulci. Wings subhyaline, subcostalis twice the length of the marginális, stigmalis nearly sessile, a little more than half the length of the marginalis, postmarginalis a little longer than the stigmalis, about half the length of the marginális ; legs slender, hind femora somewhat thickened with the lower margin smooth, the shorter spur of the hind tibiae minute ; abdomen a little longer than the thorax, flattened above, caudal margin of the first tergite slightly incised; ovipositor exserted, about as long as the hind tibia. Closely related with Liodontomerus Gah. from which it may be distinguished by the strikingly different sculpture of the head and thorax, moreover by the scalelike hairs covering these parts of the body. The generotype, L. semiaenea sp. n. shows by its peculiar coloration a very strange appearance, which is remarkably different from those of the species of Liodontomerus known up to now. Lochimerus gen. nov. . Head and thorax sharply reticulate, shining ; antennae inserted on the lower eye line, strongly clavate, the proximal funicle joints much reduced, very small and somewhat ringlike, much smaller than the 2—3 last joints of the funicle ; club a little asymmetrical, much broader and as long as or slightly longer than the whole funicle ; pronotum very short medially, mesoscutum tolerably convex, propodeum without median carina and spiracular sulci, abruptly declining ; wings hyaline, marginális somewhat thickened, three times as long as the stigmalis, postmarginalis half the length of the marginális, a little longer than the stigmalis ; legs slender, lower margin of the hind femora smooth, hind tibiae with two apical spurs ; abdomen almost as long as head and thorax united, last sternite sharply off standing ; ovipositor surpassing the length of the abdomen. Nearest to Liodontomerus Gah. and Slanecia Bck. From the former it may be distinguished by the form of the antennae and especially by the relatively long antennái club, from the latter it differs by the same characteristics, moreover by the form of the abdomen, the first and second abdominal tergites