Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn (The Arthropoda Laboratory, Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya Str. 123, Moscow 117647, RUSSIA).

Current projects: Dr. Rasnitsyn reports that due to the dire economic conditions in Russia and especially in his laboratory he has no progress in his science to report to the readership of Ichnews.

Other items of interest: Dr. Rasnitsyn had a few comments on the article by David Wahl and myself in the first volume of the Journal of Hymenoptera Research.

Sharkey and Wahl, p. 19: "We are unaware of any Apocrita with two r-m crossveins, with the exception of some braconids." Leptephialtites gigas A. Rasnitsyn (Ephialtitidae, cf. Rasnitsyn 1975, Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic: Fig. 19) had two r-m crossveins (I believe due to a reversion and not as a symplesiomorphy with symphytans).

Sharkey and Wahl, p. 20: "Mason (1981) was the first to examine Hybrizon's relationship to Ichneumonidae and Braconidae from a phylogenetic perspective." Rasnitsyn (1980: p.81) did this a year before with the same result.

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