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5. Scutellar processes long and slender, generally curving inwards to 



wards the tips 6 



Scutellar processes very broad, deeply, broadly, semicircularly emar- 



ginated at apex 15. Thoracantha Latreille. 



(= ? Acrostela Shipp.) 

 Scutellar processes long continuous and acuminate at apex ; antennae 



with 8 long branches 16. Uromelia Kirby. 



(= Lasionycha Shipp.) 



Scutellar processes long continuous but rounded not acuminate at 

 apex; antennae with no long branches, serrated. 



17. Dicoelothorax Ashmead, n. g. 



6. Eyes tuberculate 20. Isomeralia Shipp. 



Eyes normal. 



Mesonotum, scutellum and the scutellar processes longitudinally 

 furrowed or striated. 



Third joint of antennse very long ; funicle with 7 branches 

 which are scarcely longer than the third antennal joint. 



21. Lirata Cameron. 

 Third joint of antennae very short; funicle with 9 long 



branches. 4 22. Kapala Cameron. 



Mesonotum with the middle lobe coarsely transversely furrowed, 

 the lateral lobes with the scutellum and scutellar processes 

 smooth, not striated 23. Lasiokapala Ashmead. 



This paper was followed by a brief discussion of the probable 

 habits of the insects of this group, participated in by Messrs. 

 Ashmead, Howard, and Schwarz. Nothing is known of their 

 host relations, except two records of Australian species having 

 been reared from the pupa of ants. Mr. Howard stated that he 

 had seen a specimen of Kapala furcata in Mr. H. H. Smith's 

 collection from St. Vincent, which carried an ant in its jaws. He 

 thought this might possibly be significant, although, of course, 

 the Eucharid might have clasped the ant in its death struggles in 

 the cyanide bottle. Mr. Ashmead and Mr. Schwarz stated that 

 Florida species occur commonly in localities where ants are abun 

 dant. 



Mr. Ashmead submitted for publication the following paper : 



CLASSIFICATION OF THE OLD FAMILY CHALCIDID^E. 

 By WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of Washington 

 held December 2, 1897, I suggested the segregation of the old 

 family Chalcididae into 14 distinct families, and gave a tentative 



