THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The subfamily Ep]mti7ice is divided into two tribes as follows : 



Table of Tribes. 

 Eyes never rounded or hemispherical, but always ovate, obovate or 

 ellipsoidal, not polished, and distinctly facetted, as in the tribe 



Mutillini Tribe I., Ephutini, 



Eyes rounded or hemispherical, very prominent and highly-polished, 

 not facetted, or the facets very indistinctly defined, as in the tribe 



Photopsidini Tribe II., Sphaerophthalmini. 



Tribe I. — Ephutini. 



Table of Genera. 

 Males I. 



Females 9. 



1. Eyes distinctly emarginate within .2. 



Eyes not emarginate within 4. 



2. Metathorax with the hind angles normal, not dentate ; scutellum 



normal, not spined 3. 



Metathorax with the hind angles dentate, clothed with a dense silvery- 

 white pubescence ; scutellum bispined. (North and South 



America) Ephutopsis, Ashm., gen. nov. 



(Types E. trinidadensis, Ashra., and M. odontophora. Cam.) 



3. Second and third cubital cells each receiving a recurrent nervure. 



Scape bicarinate beneath, the first and second flagellar joints 

 transverse, or not longer than thick ; first segment of abdomen 

 petioliform, as wide at base as at apex. (North and South 



America.) Ephuta, Say. 



= Rhoptromutilla, Andre. 

 (Type E. scrupea, Say.) 

 Scape (?) not bicarinate beneath ; , first segment of the abdomen 

 narrowed anteriorly, nodiform posteriorly. 



(Africa.) Rhopalomutilla, Andre.* 



(Type R. clavicornis, Andre.) 

 Second cubital cell receiving both recurrent nervures ; scape 



normal AUomutilla, Ashmead. 



(Type Mutilla melicerta, Smith.) 



4. Front wings with three cubital cells, or the third partially formed. . . 5. 

 Front wings with two cubital cells, the third entirely absent 6. 



"'I liave nol seen a specimen of iliis genus, and am not positive of its position in 

 this tribe. 



