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bottom ; sternaulices deep, more or less f oveolate ; propodeum strongly 

 rounded, perpendicular apically, not overlapping hind coxae, com- 

 pletely areolated except that apical abscissa of lateral carina and 

 sometimes costellae are absent. 



Legs moderately stout and, especially hind legs, very long; tibiae, 

 especially hind tibia, very coarsely and deeply punctate and with 

 coarse, long hair ; claws very small, pectinate, the pecten of each claw 

 composed of two or three slender teeth ; calcaria very long, inner one 

 of each pair much longer than outer. 



Wings broad, nearly or quite reaching apex of abdomen; stigma 

 narrow, radius at or slightly beyond middle ; basal vein perpendicular, 

 curved; metacarpus much longer than stigma; areolet small, oblique, 

 recurrent near apex ; cliscocubitus sharply curved or broken basad of 

 bulla; recurrent straight, bulla weakly divided; nervulus broken far 

 below middle; abscissula nearly or quite as long as intercubitella ; 

 mediella distinct to base; nervulus broken far below middle and 

 strongly inclivous; longitudinal veins of hind wing obsolete beyond 

 cross veins. 



Abdomen relatively short and slender; first segment about as long 

 as next two combined, postpetiole much longer than broad, sternite 

 not reaching spiracles and not at all enclosed by lateral margins of 

 tergite; tergite 2 distinctly' shorter than 3, epipleura not carinately 

 separated, spiracles in epipleura; ovipositor long and extremely 

 slender, attenuate apically, apical notch inconspicuous. 



Genotype. — Brachysclerorna afoderi^ new species. 



Of the other cremastine genera Brachysclerom'a is most closely 

 allied to Dimophoi'a Foerster, resembling that genus in the short, 

 robust thorax with distinct sternaulices ; the margined scutellum ; the 

 strongly roimded and posteriorly precipitate propodeum not over- 

 lapping the hind coxae ; the stout, long hind legs ; and the short abdo- 

 men with relatively long first segment and short second and third 

 segments, the first sternite not at ail covered by the lateral margins 

 of the tergite and not nearly reaching the spiracles. Many of the 

 characters common to the tAvo genera are exaggerated in BrachyHcle- 

 roma; the sternaulices are deeper and more or less f oveolate; the 

 scutellum is margined to apex, not merely at base ; the hind legs are 

 relatively longer as compared to the front legs; and the first ab- 

 dominal segment is relatively longer and the second and third seg- 

 ments are relatively shorter. Otherwise Byachy scleroma differs from 

 Dwioj)hora by most of the features mentioned in the description, 

 notably the thin, lenticular head; the deep, oblique mesopleural fur- 

 row; the narrow stigma; the small, oblique areolet; the very short 

 second tergite with spiracles in the epipleura, which are not cari- 

 nately separated; and the very long, slender ovipositor. 



The coleopterous host is also unusual for a cremastine. 



