ASIIMEAI>: CLASSIIMCATION OF THE CIIAI.CII) El-IKS 305 



Wings with fuscous rays. 



Head obloug ; autcnniu strongly (•()mi>r(ssoil, hroad ; occipital inai-iii and the scutcliuin normal. 



Cerapterocerus ^\'l■st\vood (type C. mirabilig Westw.). 



Head no< oblong ; antenna; neither strongly compressed nor broad; occipital margin medially 



and superiorly, with two strong clavate hairs ; scutellum at ape.x with one or two clumps 



of hairs ; marginal Vi^^in m )re than twice as long as thick. 



Funicle 6-jointed, the joints wider than long, the club not especially large. 



Habrolepis Forster (tyi)c Encyrlus ilalmani Wcstw.). 

 Funicle 4-i()iiited, the joints fully twice as long as thick, or a little longer, the club very 

 large, fusilbrni, nearly as long as the funicle and much stouter. 



Homalopoda Howard (type If. n-Mata How.). 



52. Marginal veiii shorter than tlie stignuil or no longer 5.'-, 



Marginal vein longer than the stignial ; facial impression not honmlcd by a distinct arched carina 



superiorly .r,;} 



53. Scutellum ivithoul a tuft of black bristles near apex 54 



Scutellum with a tuft of black bristles near apex. 



Head with a series of moderately large punctures ; axilhc very narrow, transversely wedge- 

 shaped, with the points just meeting at base of the .scutellum ; antenna; compressed, the 

 scape wide Eusemion Dahlbom (type Encyrtvs corniger Haliday). 



Head microscopically punctate ; axillae with their points not quite meeting ; antennie strongly 

 clavate, subcompressed, the scape subclavate, the club very large, many times larger than 



the funicle, the joints of the latter transverse, linear Blatticida Ashmead, g. nov. 



(type B. pulchra Ashm.). 



54. Head smooth, shining, with very fine, sparse punctures ; ocelli in an acute triangle ; axilla; united at 



base of the scutellum Atropates Howaid (type A. collinsi How.). 



55. Facial impression not bounded by an arched carina superiorly 57 



Facial impre.ssion and scrobes deep, bounded by a distinct arched carina sujieriorly. 



Scutellum without a tuft of bristles ,r,G 



Scutellum with a tuft of bristles. 



Stigmal and postmarginal veins very long Chrysoplatycerus Ashmead 



(type liileya splcndens How.). 

 5(). Marginal and postmarginal veins snlie(|ual, the stignial a little the longer; eyes naked; ocelli iu an 



acute triangle; funicle not longer than the lirst joint of tlic club Asteropaeus Howard 



(type ^.;),-/m».9 How.). 



Marginal longer, tiie stigmal and postmarginal veins not long ; eyes pubescent ; joints of the funicle 



all short and rapidly widening from the narrow pedicel, the club longer than the funicle, oblicpiely 



truncate from beneath towards apex ; tarsi short and somewhat thickened Anicetus Howard 



(type A. ceylonensis How.). 



57. Scutellum normal ; eyes pubescent ; anteniuu short, the scape somewhat broadly dilated toward apex ; 



the flagellum strongly incrassatcd, scarcely longer than the scape, the very large club longer than 

 the funicle, the joints of funicle annular; marginal vein punctilbrm, the .stigmal and postmarginal 

 veins very long as in Encyrlus Zarhopalus .\shmead (type Z. Khcldoni Ashm.). 



58. Antenna" 10-jointed, the funicle 5-jointed. 



Scape linear, wholly received in the scrobes; marginal vein punetiform Metallon Walker 



(tyi>e .U. aninillh Walk.). 



