ASHMEAD : (n.ASSIFICATION OF TIIK CIIAI.Cin FLIKS 293 



always narrower and bidcntate. In tlie females tJie h3'popyginni is usually 

 prominent. 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



1 . Females 2 



Males 24 



2. Face with a distiuct carina between the base of the antenna) 1 ."> 



Face without such a carina, rarely with a rounded ridge ; antenna; inserted .just abuvc the clyiRUS, or 



below the middle of the face. 



Wingless or subapterous species 11 



Winged species • 3 



3. Front wings with the marginal \cin nitlit r long, twice as long as the stigmal vein, or even longer, always 



much longer than the stigmal 4 



Front wings with the marginal vein short, the postmarginal vein very short 10 



4. Stigmal and postmarginal veins not short, or rarely .short, the postmarginal vein most freiiuently 



longer than the stigmal 5 



Stigmal and postmarginal veins short ; scape slender, cylindrical. 



Wings fu.scous, marked with white bands or rays ; frous broad, the lateral ocelli nearer to the 



eye margin than to the front ocellus. Calocerinus Howard (type Tetracnemiis floridanus Aslmi. ). 



Wings hyaline ; frons not so broad, the lateral ocelli not nearer to the eye margin than to the 



front ocellus Tetralophidia Ashmcad (type T. hcdrri Aslun.). 



5. Funicle fi-jointed, without ring-joints (! 



Funicle 4-jointed, with two ring-joints. 



Frons minutely shagreened, with minute punctures scattered over the surAvce ; scape sleinler, 

 cylindrical, the flagellum at the most subclavate ; stigmal vein very oblique, subdavate. 



Meromyzobia Ashmead (type Ericydnus maciilipenim Ashm.). 



6. Stigmal and postmarginal veins sliort, the latter sometimes hardly developed ; front wings with a dis- 



coidal blotch 7 



Stigmal and postmarginal veins not sliort, usually long, the hitler the longer, sometimes as long as the 

 marginal ; front wings without a discoidal blotch S 



7. Frons very minutely shagi-eened, with minute punctures scattered over the surface, or almost smooth. 



Head viewed from in front longer than wide; scutellum with a tuft of long hairs; abdomen 

 scarcely longer than the head and thorax united, the ovipositor not or scarcely e.xserled ; 

 flagellum gradually broadened towards apex, compressed, the pedicel hardly as long as the 

 first joint of the funicle ; the joints after the tliird broader than long. 



Chrysopophagus Ashmcad (type C. comprcssicomis Ashm.). 



Head viewed from in front not longer than wide, if anything a little wider than long ; scutellum 

 without a tuft of long hairs ; abdomen distinctly longer than the head and thorax united, with 

 a prominent ovipositor which is longer than half the length of the abdomen ; Hagellum sub- 

 clavate, not compressed, the funicle joints longer than thick Tineophoctonus Ashmcad 



(type Phivnodeacus armalus Ashm.). 



8. Frons regularly punctate, or broad and smooth, margaritaceously shining 9 



Frons minutely shagreened, with minute punctures scattered over the surface ; scape not compressedly 



dilated beneath, either cylindrical or subcylindrical. 



Antennas not longer than the body, usually somewhat shortci', the first joint of the llagclluni 

 rarely more than twice as long as thick ; stigmal vein not curved ; axilht; just meet at inner 

 basal angles Ericydnus Walker (type Encyrtus longicornis Dalm.). 



