ashmkad: classification ok tiik chalcid kliks 241 



Postmarginal vein nol longer than tlie stignial ; mandibles very long, falcate, biilentate at apex ; antenna- 

 11-jointed ; pronotum very long, rounded in front ; seutellum the 



parapsidal furrows di.stinct Sycobia Walker (type S. betlnjloidcs Walk.). 



38. Stigmal vein rather short, less than one third the length of the marginal ; antenna; 13-jointed, with 2 



ring-joints and a 6-jointed funicle Trichaulus Mayr. 



39. Antennae 13-jointed, with 2 ring-joints ; mesouotum with distinct parapsidal furrows. 



Pronotum quadrate, a little narrower than the mesonotum ; seutellum with two grooved lines ; 

 abdomen oval, subdepressed, much shorter than the thorax, briefly petiolate, and terminating 

 in an e.xserted penal sheath Sycophila Westwood. 



Pronotum large, rounded anteriorly: seutellum »(7/io»/ grooved lines: alxlonien compressed, 

 shorter than the thora.x Froggattia Ashmoad 



Su];famii,v II. Toi!v.\fiN.i:. 

 1840. Pteronialides, Subfamily (partini) \\'e.st\voo(l, Intro. Mod. Class. Ins., II., 



Synop., p. 67. 

 1846. Torymidte, Family 4 (partim) Walker, List. Chalcid. Brit. INIusoum, I., p. 14. 

 1871. Torymides, Subtribus (partim) Thomson, Hym. Skand., IV., pp. 5!), 64, 

 1899. Toryminje, Subfamily II., Ashmead, Proc. P]nt. Stjc. Washington, IV., p. 247. 



The vast majority of the species falling in this group are parasitic on gall-inhab- 

 iting insects, belonging to the orders Hymenoptera and Diptera, although others are 

 recorded as having been bred from Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, etc., and from the nests 

 of bees and wasps. 



I think it quite likely these latter records are erroneous, and that the Coleoptera, 

 Lepidoptera, etc., had dipterous parasites from which the torymines came. 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



1. Females 2 



Males 8 



2. Antennse 13-jointed, with only one ring-joint 3 



Autennse 13-joint€d, with two ring-joints Lochites Fiirster (type L. papaieris Forster). 



3. Seutellum without a cross-furrow before apex 4 



Seutellum with a cross-furrow before apex. 



Abdomen with second dorsal segment incised medially at apex. 



Syntomaspis Forster (type TonjmuH cyaneux Bohcman). 



4. First joint of flagellum not abrui)tly narrower than the following ; clypeus at apex truncate 5 



First joint of flagellum abruptly narrower than the following; clypeus at apex subproduced. 



Lioterphus Thomson (type Torymiis pallidicornis Boheman). 



5. Thorax not especially long, the pronotum not conically elongate. 6 



Thorax long, the pronotum much developed, conically elongate. 



Abdomen with a distinct petiole, the body much compressed, shorter than the thorax, the 

 ovipositor very long Ecdamua Walker (type E. macrolelus Walker). 



6. Mandibles 3-dentate ; head not triangular ; costal cell wide. 7 



Mandibles 2-dentate ; head subtriangular, as viewed from in front ; costal cell luirrow. 



Callimomus Thomson (type C. scaposus Thomson) 



