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FAMILY LXVI. CLEONYMID^E. 

 TABLE OF SUBFAMILIES. 



Mesonotal furrows not at all indicated 3 



Mesonotal furrows more or less distinct. 



Abdomen longlj petiolated 2 



Abdomen sessile, or subpetiolate, never longly petiolate. 



Posterior femora much swollen and usually toothed or 

 finely denticulate beneath (as \r\Chalcis, Smicra, &c.); ab 

 domen usually depressed, the ovipositor not exserted ; an 

 tennas at the most i i-jointed.. Subfamily I. Chalcedectina;. 

 Posterior femora not much swollen and very rarely toothed 

 beneath, the anterior femora usually more or less en 

 larged, sometimes very much swollen and often excised 

 or dentate beneath toward apex; ovipositor often, but not 

 always, exserted; antennae n-i^-jointed. 



Subfamily II. Cleonyminae. 



2. Body of abdomen strongly compressed, sword-shaped, ending in a long 



ovipositor, the basal sheaths very broad ; all legs slender, the hind 

 pair very long, their coxse long, cylindrical ; front wings with the 

 marginal and postmarginal veins verf long, the latter extending to tip 

 of wing, the stigmal vein very small, subsessile; antennas u-jointed, 

 inserted close to the mouth Subfamily III. Pelecinellinas. 



3. Abdomen subsessile, comprest^ed, conically produced toward apex; 



front wings with the postmarginal and stigmal veins very short, the 

 knob of the latter nearly sessile, rounded; posterior tibiae com 

 pressed, the hind margin denticulate. 



Subfamilv IV. Colotrechninae. 



\ 

 SUBFAMILY I. CHALCEDECTIN^E. 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



Hind femora much incrassated, minutely denticulate beneath 2 



Hind femora much incrassated and armed beneath with large distinct 

 teeth. 



Hind femora with several teeth, fourth segment the largest, 



transversely striated or aciculated i. Chalcedectes Walk. 



= Polychroma Westw. 

 = Polychromatium D. T. 



Hind femora with three large teeth 2. Cleptimorpha Walk. 



Hind femora with one large tooth towards apex, followed by 

 three or four smaller teeth 3. Chalcidiscelis* Ashm., n. g. 



*Type Chalcidiscelis Koebelei Ashm. MS. from Australia. 



