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host), ex Pandemis cerasana Hübner (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae), 13-25 May 1976, food-plant of host: Malus domestica, leg. et educ. Mrs Molnár — II/2: 1 female + 1 male: Füzér, Nagy-Milic. 1 female: Telkibánya, Kutyaszorító — V-VII. Ascogaster rufipes (Latreille, 1809) — Its area covers the Palaearctic Region, in Europe a frequent species; in Hungary, however, a rare species, listed from six localities. — Localities: I/I: 1 female: Ágasegyháza. 1 male: Farmos. 1 male: Kelebia. 1 female + 1 male (A. canifrons Wesmael in Papp 1983a: 322): Újszentmargita, Margitai-erdő, swept in Festuco pseudovinae-Quercetum — II/l: 4 females + 9 males: Gyulafirátót, Kis-Papod — III/l (Slovakia): Szklenófürdő (= Sklené Teplice) — V and VII-IX, frequent in August. Ascogaster scabricula (Dahlbom, 1833) — In Europe a less frequent species, listed its localities in four countries (Belgium, France, Sweden: Huddleston 1984: 379; Slovakia: Capek and LukáS 1989: 42) and reported from the European part of the former USSR (Tobias 1986a: 305). In Hungary known from eight localities. New to the fauna of Hungary. — Localities: 1/1: 1 female: Tiszakerecseny, Lónyai-erdő. 1 male: Siófok, Tóközpuszta. 1 female: Zsombó — II/l: 1 male: Budapest, "Buda". 1 male: Budaörs, Csíki-hegyek — II/2: 1 male: Bükkszenkereszt, Hollóstető — III/3 (Transylvania): 1 male: Retyezát, A. Csóka (= Muntii Retezatului) — VI/1: 1 male: Pécs, Tubes — VI/2: Zalalövö, Irsapuszta — V-VII. Ascogaster varipes Wesmael, 1835 (= Chelonus catulus Marshall, 1885, syn. n.) — Localities: 1/1: 5 females + 18 males from 14 localities — 1/2: 1 male: Pityer — II/l: 12 females + 25 males from 21 localities — II/2: 13 females + 15 males from 9 localities — III/l (Slovakia): 1 female + 2 males from 3 localities — III/2-5 (Transylvania): 1 female + 2 males from 3 localities — V/l-3: 1 female + 5 males from 4 localities — VI/1-2: 9 females + 8 males from 10 localities — V-IX taken most frequently in August. Chelonus Jurine, 1801 The Palearctic species of the genus Chelonus are in a high need to revise their taxonomic position. A considerable amount of the species is not interprétable merely on the basis of the (original) description on one hand and the identification keys presented by Szépligeti (1908), Fahringer (1934), Telenga (1941) and Tobias (1986a) for the western Palaearctic or European species do not comprise every Chelonus species, on the other. Consequently, our present knowledge allows but an approximative calculation of the number of the Chelonus species in Europe which is about between 80 and 90. From among these species 37 are listed in the fauna of Hungary of which 16 species proved to be new to its fauna (Chelonus antennalis, Ch. asiaticus, Ch. bidens, Ch. brachyurus, Ch. breviventris, Ch. capsa, Ch. humilis, Ch. jacobsoni, Ch. kryzhanovskii, Ch. mirandus, Ch. ocellatus, Ch. seticornis, Ch. speculator, Ch. subannulatus, Ch. subseticornis, Ch. wesmaeli). My identifications were authenticated either by the examination of the type(s) of several (e.g. Thomson's, Tobias', Wesmael's) species or confirmed personally by van Achterberg and Tobias. The taxon names Chelonus Jurine, 1801 versus Anomala Von Block, 1799 was discussed by van Achterberg (1982, 1987). Chelonus annulatus (Nees, 1816) (= Ch. maculatus Szépligeti, 1896) — Frequent to common in the Palaearctic Region. In Hungary widely distributed in the Eupannonicum (1/1), in other districts much less frequent. — Localities: 1/1: 37 females + 11 males from 19 localities — II/l : 26 females + 1 male from 8 localities — II/2: 1 female (lectotype of