OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XII, 191(1. 93 



with the family name changed to subfamily and subfamily to 

 tribe, etc. 



"So closely, indeed, has Dr. Ashmead been followed that 

 the tables are largely a translation of his, with the addition of 

 a few of the genera described since they appeared. This slav- 

 ish following of Dr. Ashmead has naturally resulted in the 

 perpetuation of the obvious important errors in his tables and 

 has also resulted in the present work being no advance over 

 the former, a circumstance greatly to be regretted in a pub- 

 lication of this character and magnitude. 



''In the table of subfamilies, the axillae of the group called 

 the Macrocentri are said to have the anterior margin straight 

 and back of a line drawn from tegula to tegula. In many 

 genera this margin is not straight and is produced forward, 

 most noticeably so in such genera as Tanaostigma. Again, 

 the Megastigminae are said to have but one spur on the poste- 

 rior tibiae, although as long ago as 1875 Dr. Gustav Mayr, in 

 his revision of the TorymidcC of Europe, correctly stated that 

 they had two. The antennae of the genus Lelaps aresaid to 

 be 14-jointed, with 2 ring joints, but I cannot find in any species 

 examined more than one ring joint, making the antennae only 

 13-jointed. In this connection it might be added that in the 

 general characters given for the Chalcididae Dr. Schmiede- 

 knecht has stated that at most the group has 13 joints to the 

 antennae, although he has assigned 14 to Lelaps and gives 

 the genera Sacharissa and fciichun'ssa, which are stated to 

 have from 16 to 22. 



"Another serious omission is the leaving out of a list of the 

 genera which the author has not included in his tables. Dr. 

 Ashmead gave such a list and none of the genera included in 

 his list are accounted for in any manner, the student being led 

 to believe that all the described genera have been tabulated. 

 Among the genera which were entirely missed by Dr. Ashmead 

 and not picked up by Dr. vSchmiedeknecht may be given 

 Aif/troc/ins Rubsaamen, Hcplacondyhi Rondani, Simopterus 

 Foerster, and Stichocrcpis Foerster. To a different category 

 belong the following genera, which, although known to Dr. 

 Ashmead, were omitted from his tables and not gathered up 

 by the present author: Aphylis Howard; Ano.:ns Koerster; 

 C/irvsoc/Kinnles Ashmead; Chrysocharoideus Ashmead. 



"The whole group is said to be parastic, with the exception 

 of the Isosomini, and yet the genus Bruchophagus Ashmead, 

 which is phytophagous, is assigned to the Kurytomini, and the 



