Scott R. Shaw (University of Wyoming; Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences; College of Agriculture; P.O. Box 3354, Laramie, WY, USA).

Current projects: Book chapter on Costa Rican braconids is due for publication soon. Revision of North American species of Aleiodes (with Paul Marsh). Phylogeny of Aleiodes. Chapters on Rogadini, Neoneurinae, Meteorinae, Euphorinae, and Cheloninae for the Identification Manual to Braconid Genera of the New World. A new genus of Euphorinae (sister-group to Cryptoxilos.). Behaviour of Neoneurus.

Other items of interest: As of the fall of 1993, Scott has had two new graduate students: "Joseph Fortier is working on the cladistics of Aleiodes funded by a three year grant from the National Science Foundation. Nina Zitani is currently working on a new species of Meteorus from Costa Rica (that apparently has a defense against leaf-cutter ants). Scott's undergraduate student Jeri Wright recently won a honourable mention at the ESA meeting in Indianapolis for her work on "anomalous diversity" and Costa Rican Braconidae. More importantly, Jeri was recently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and will attend Oxford University next fall. She is interested in tri-trophic interactions of plants/leafminers/and parasitoids (especially Mirax).

Request for help and cooperation: We are already swamped in Aleiodes specimens from various collections, but we are always interested in seeing more material if it is reared (send the mummies). Willing to exchange identified New World Aleiodes for identified Aleiodes from other regions.

Collection sites: Travelled to Brasil (August 1992) and Costa Rica (March 1993).