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Abdomen subglobose or short oval, the second segment very large, occupying nearly the whole surface, 

 the following very short, more or less retracted within the second ; scutellum with a cross-fun-ow 



vei-y near its apex Mesolelaps Ashmead (type M. cyaneivenlris Ashm.). 



6. Petiole of abdomen long, the body small, spatulate ; antenna; very long, 14-jointed, longer than the 

 whole body, the joints long, cylindrical, clothed with long, sparse haire Lelaps Haliday. 



Petiole of abdomen very short, the body oblong-oval, truncate at apex; antenna' not longer than the 

 thorax, 13-jointed, the flagellum filiform, pubescent, the joints after the first about twice as long as 

 thick Mesolelaps Ashmead. 



Family LXVII. CLEONYMID/E. 

 1837. Cleonyiiiidie, Family (partiin), Walker, Ent. Mag., J\'., p. 349. 

 184(3. Eupelmicke, Family 9 (partim), Walker, List (/hulcid. Brit. .Museum, I., p. 52. 

 185G. Cleonymoida-, Fauiilie XIV.; (partim), Forster, Hym. Stud., II., pp. 19, 24 



and 46. 

 1875. Cleonymides, Sulitribus, Thomson, Hym. Skand., IV., p. 217. 

 1878. Cleonyniides, Subtribus, Thomson, Hym. Skand., V,, p. 3. 

 1886. Cleonymides, Triljo, Howard, Entora. Amer., II., pp. 33, 34. 

 1899. (Jleonymidaj, Family LXVL, Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, IV., p. 200. 



An historical sketch of this family was given in my paper entitled : " On the 

 Genera of the Cleonymida)," published in 1899. 



Unquestionably, the family comes nearest to the family Eaetjrtkhv, and forms a 

 connecting link between it and some families previously treated, i. e., the ChalcididsR, 

 Eurytomidm and the Miscogastendx ; some genera in the subfamily Chalcedectinfe 

 especially being remarkably like some genuine Clinlcidi(hr. jMany males, too, are 

 easily mistaken for genuine EajKlmiues and Ejicyrtlnefy. Pdechulla has some char- 

 acters similar to the Eurytomidse, and the Turymidx. 



Coleotrechnus, placed in this fixmily, is unknown to me. It is placed here from the 

 description alone, and may be a genuine Encyrtid, although nothing is said of a salta- 

 torial middle tibial spur. 



TABLE OF SUBFAMILIES. 



1. Mesonotal furrows not at all indicated 4 



Mesonotal furrows more or less distinct 2 



2. Abdomen longly petiolated 3 



Abdomen sessile, or subpetiolate, never longly petiolate. 



Po.sterior femora much swollen and usually toothed or finely denticulate beneath, as in Chaleis, 

 Smicra, etc. ; abdomen usually depressed, the ovipositor rai-cly exserted ; autennse at the most II. 

 jointed Subfamily I. Chalcedectin^. 



Posterior femora not much swollen and very rarely toothed beneath, the anterior femora usually 

 more or less enlarged, sometimes very much swollen and often excised or dentate beneath 

 toward apex ; ovipositor often, but not always, exserted ; antenna; Il-I3-jointed. 



Subfamilv 11. CLEONYMlNiE. 



