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species and two new genera as well as listed several known species of Helconini from Siberia and the Far East Territory of Russia. The helconine species are parasitoids of cerambycid and buprestid, less frequently of curculionid and melandryid beetle larvae living and boring in wood. Aspicolpus Wesmael, 1838 (=Aspidocolpus auct.) Shenefelt (1970: 186-189) in his braconid world-catalogue listed 18 Aspicolpus species from the Old World, the majority of them are distributed in the Palaearctic Region. In 1933 Brues added relatively many, i.e. five fossil species, to this genus. Up to now these 23 species have not been not critically revised, supposedly at least a few of them will have to be reclassified in other genus or genera. Recently Belokobylskij (1990, 1993) described two new species from the Russian Far East increasing the total number of the Aspicoplus species known from East Siberia and Japan to twelve. Formally three species of this genus are present in the fauna of Europe, however, the third species, A. helveticus (Haller), is taxonomically uncertain. In the Hungarian fauna two species have been detected so far. Aspicolpus borealis (Thomson, 1891) - Shenefelt (1970: 187) listed four countries (Sweden, Switzerland, Iran, Russia: Kamchatka) from where it was reported. New to the fauna of Hungary. - Localities: II/l: 1 d: Csesznek, Kőárok. /7/2: 1 9: Mátraháza. 1 9: Noszvaj, Síkfőkút, taken with Malaise trap in Quercetum petraeae-cerris. - V and VII. Aspicolpus carinator (Nees, 1814) (=Diospilus maximus Szépligeti, 1900 syn. n.) Localities: I/l: 1 9: Budapest, Orczy-kert. II/l: 2 9: Bakonybél, Vörös János séd. 1 9: Budapest, 1 d: Budapest, Hűvösvölgy. 1 9: Piliscsaba, Homok-hegy. 1 9 + 1 cí (lectotype and paralectotype of Diospilus maximus): Pilismarót. 3 9: Pilismarót. H/2: 2 9: Gödöllő, Máriabesnyő. 6 9 + 1 d: Gyöngyössólymos. 1 9: Noszvaj, Síkfőkút, taken with Malaise trap. HI/2 (Ruthenia): 1 9: Ungvár (=Uzhgorod). HI/3 (Transylvania): 1 9: Nagyszeben (=Sibiu). VI/1: 1 d: Pécs, Melegmányi-völgy(=valley), ex Clytus abietis Linnaeus (Col. Cerambycidae) 23 IV 1984, host's foodplant Quercus cerris, leg. et educ. Gy. Somorjai. - V-VII. Helcon Nees, 1814 (=Coelostephanus Kieffer, 1911; =Edyia Cameron, 1905; =Gymnoscelus Foerster, 1862) In the European fauna four species were assigned in this genus both by Hedqvist (1967) and by Van Achterberg (1987). The variability of the generic features is relatively high as indicated by the three synonymous generic names cited above. The four species are also registered in the Hungarian fauna. Helcon angustator Nees, 1814 (=H. cylindricus Wesmael, 1835; =77. lignator Lepeletier et Audinet-Serville, 1827; ^Ichneumon distensor Thunberg, 1822; =Ichneumon redactor Thunberg, 1822) - Widely distributed in the Palaearctic Region. According to Van Achterberg (1987: 266-269) it occurs and prefers the lowland areas. In Hungary listed equally in lowland and hilly districts. First reported from Hungary by Szépligeti (18966: 313). - Localities: I/l: 1 9 + 1 d : Apatin. 1 9: Borosjenő (=Ineu). 1 ci: Kalocsa. 1 9: Kecskemét. 2 cí: Nagyvárad (=Oradea). 1 d: Siófok. 1 9 + 1 d: Szigetcsép. II/

1: 1 d: Budaörs. 2 9 + 3 d: Budapest. 1 9: Fót, Somló. 4 9 + 3 d: Keszthely. 4 9: ex Plagionotus arcuatus Linnaeus (Col. Cerambycidae) 26 VI 1984 leg. et educ. O. Merkl, 3 d ex