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Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Prof. Charles P. Alexander, 

 Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Mass. ; American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York City ; Prof. R. H. Beamer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 

 Kans. ; T. E. Birkett, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. ; Boston Society of 

 Natural History, Boston, Mass. ; Prof. J. Chester Bradley, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. ; C. Walter Collins, Dutch Elm Disease Laboratory, Morristown, 

 N. J. ; Dr. Derrill M. Daniel, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, 

 N. Y. ; Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany ; Depart- 

 ment of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, lU. ; Prof. E. O. Essig, 

 University of California, Berkeley, Calif. ; Field Museum of Natural History, 

 Chicago, 111. ; Prof. C. L. Fluke, Jr., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. ; 

 Dwight Isely, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. ; Prof. Maurice T. 

 James, Colorado State College, Fort Collins, Colo. ; Prof. H. H. Knight, Iowa 

 State College, Ames, Iowa ; Dr. J. H. McDunuough, Department of Agriculture, 

 Ottawa, Ontario ; Dr. C. E. Mickel, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn. ; 

 Prof. R. H. Painter, Kansas Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kans. ; Dr. William 

 Procter, Biological Survey of the Mount Desert Region, Bar Harbor, Maine; 

 Dr. H. H. Ross, Illinois State Natural History Survey, Urbana, 111. ; C. W. 

 Sabrosky, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Mich. ; Prof. H. A. Scullen, 

 Oregon State Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oreg. ; Prof. H. C. Severin, South 

 Dakota State College, Brookings, S. Dak. ; S. A. Shaw, Hampton, N. H. ; Prof. 

 W. E. Shull, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho ; and J. R. Watson, Florida 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Gainesville, Fla. 



Finally, I wish to express my indebtedness to Prof. W. V. Balduf , 

 of the Department of Entomology of the University of Illinois, under 

 whose direction this study was made. 



Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 



Family CHALCIDIDAE 



Subfamily Chalcidinae 



Tribe GHALCIDINI 



Chalcis Fabeicius, Mantissa insectorum . . . , vol. 1, p. 272, 1787 (in part). 



Smicrini Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 1, p. 248, 1904. — Schmiede- 

 KNECHT, Genera insectorum, fasc. 97, p. 18, 1909. — Handliksch, in 

 Schroder's Handbuch der Entomologie, vol. 3, p. 771, 1925; in Ktikenthars 

 Handbuch der Zoologie, vol. 4, p. 976, 1933. 



Smicrinariae Mani, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 37, p. 251, 1935. 



The following characters will differentiate the members of the 

 tribe Chalcidini from all other members of the superfamily Chalci- 

 doidea : 



Antennae 13-segmented, inserted approximately in center of frons, 

 usually considerably dorsad of ventral margins of compound eyes, 

 but occasionally at level of ventral margins (fig. 7, a, e, /), never 

 inserted near clypeal suture (as in fig. 7, d) ; vertex not produced 

 anteriorly in form of tvv^o hornlike projections (as in fig. 7, h, c) ; 

 tegulae not extended anteriorly to, or almost to, posterior margins of 



