S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 27/2. (Budapest, 1974)

ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK (SERIES NOVA) XXVII. 2. 1974. p. 71-73 The type-specimen of Pteromalus pandens Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) in Budapest By M. W R. de V. GRAHAM (Received August 10, 1973) ABSTRACT: The type of Pteromalus pandens WALKER is in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. FRANCIS WALKER (1872 : 101) described Pteromalus pandens from a male or males captured at Torla, Spain, and stated to be -in the collection of the Rev. T. A.MARSHALL (who was doubtless the captor)

. When revising the European Pteromalidae, I failed to locate any specimen which could be the type of P. pandens

, either in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) where most of MARSHALL'S Chalcidoidea are housed, or in any other collection in Britain. In reporting this (GRAHAM, 1969 : 466) I assigned pandens tentatively to the genus Psilocera, quoting WALKER who had stated (1874 : 316) that his Pteromalus obumbratus

, 1874, known from the extant type to be a Psilocera

, was allied to pandens

. In March, 1973, whilst studying the general collection of Chalcidoidea in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, I noticed an interesting specimen standing in drawer 36 of the Pteromalidae under the name "

Pegopus inornatus

"

. This specimen is a very large male Psilocera mounted flat upon a rectangular card, on the lower surface of which is written "Torla" . The specimen also bears four labels reading as follows: "

inornatus WLK. (Spain) Coll. MARSHALL"; "EURYALIDES"; "

inornatus (SPAIN)"; and (in the Rev. T. A. MARSHALL'S handwriting) "

Eutelus inornatus WLK." How it came to be identified as Pegopus inornatus is a mystery, as it is nothing like that species. The word "Euryalides" does not appear to represent any published name. The fact that the specimen had been captured at Torla in Spain, had come from MARSHALL' s collection,