Vladimir E. Gokhman (Plant Protection Division; Botanical Garden; Moscow State University; Moscow 119899, RUSSIA).

New literature: Gokhman, V.E. 1992. On the origin of endoparasitism in the subfamily Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii 53: 600-608.

Current projects: Investigation of the phylogenetic affinities of the subfamily Ichneumoninae (together with M. G. Fitton and D. L. J. Quicke). Study of ichneumonids of the tribe Phaeogenini from the Russian Far East. Karyological study of Russian Ichneumoninae.

Request for help or cooperation: Specimens of Phaeogenini from the Palaearctic (especially from the Far East) for loan/exchange. Any living Ichneumoninae (preimaginal stages/adult females).

Museum notes: April 1993 - study for a few days of the collection of Phaeogenini and some other ichneumonids at the British Museum of Natural History.

Collection site: Summer 1992 - collected Ichneumoninae in the Moscow and Volgograd regions.