Bulletin - United States National Museum - Smithsonian Institution

PROCTOTRUPOIDEA IN U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 95
Platygaster scutellator Fouts
Platygaster scutellatnr Fouts, 1925a, p. 96.
Holotype male, USNM no. 67836; Glen Echo, Md., July 4, 1919,
R. M. Fouts; parts of both antennae on a slide, abdomen mounted
separately on the card point. Unique.
Platygaster semiglabra (Girault)
Polymecus semiglaber Girault, 1920, p. 177.
Lectotype female, USNM no. 20610; Albany, N.Y., from gall of
Rhopalomyia hirtipes (Osten Sacken), E. P. Felt; well preserved.
Four paralectotypes (males and females) on the same tag with the
lectotype, which is indicated by a red-ink mark.
Platygaster shastensis Fouts
Platy gaster shastensis Fouts, 1924b, pp. 26, 53.
Holotype female, USNM no. 25436; Palmerlees Ranch, Oreg., Sept. 8,
1915, from cone of ,46ie5 s/iasfe^rsrs, J. E. Patterson; well preserved.
Platygaster signata Fouts
Platygaster signata Fouts, 1925a, p. 97.
Holotype female USNM no. 69164; Brownwood, Tex., May 1924,
R. M. Fouts; well preserved. One female paratype.
Platygaster solidaginis (Ashmead)
P olygnotus solidaginis Ashmead, 1887b, p. 131.
Lectotype female, USNM no. 2862; Jacksonville, Fla.; well preserved.
Two female paralectotypes, one on the same card point with the
lectotype, which is indicated by a red-ink mark. Fouts, 1924b, p. 67,
said that he was selecting the type female and the allotype male.
However, the pin on which he placed the "Type" label bears 2 fe-
males, neither of which is in any way indicated as the lectotype;
there are no males in the type material.
Platygaster striaticeps (Ashmead)
Polygnotus striaticeps Ashmead, 1893, pp. 301, 308.
Lectotype female (selected by Fouts, 1924b, p. 70), USNM no. 2284;
Newhall, Los Angeles County, Calif., July 1886, A. Koebele; an-
tennae off, only the club of the right antenna remaining, gaster miss-
ing. Allolectotype (male) and 5 paralectotypes (males and females).