ASIIMKAD : CLASSIFICATIOX OF TIIK niAr.CII) KLIKS olO 



8. Metathorax pioduood at ajiox into a 'subglubosc neck; poslmargiiuil vein always longer tlian the 



stignial <) 



Metathorax not produeed into a subglobose neck at apex, rarely with a small neck ; postmarginal 

 vein vei-y rarely longer than the stignial, most freqnently shorter, or of an e(iual length 21 



9. redicel always distinctly longer than the first funide joint, more rarely of an eciual length ; the first 



joint of funicle usually the shortest of the fvinicle joints : nietatlioracic spiracles small, round, oval, 



long oval or elliptical 10 



Pedicel usually shorter than the first joint of the funide, never longer ; the first joint of the funicle 

 usually the longest of the funicle joints : mctatluiracic spiracles large, oblong-oval or elliptical. 18 



10. AntenniB with two ring-joints 11 



AntennjE with three ring-joints 17 



11. Metathoracic spiracles oblong-oval, the lateral folds and tlie median carina iircscnt 12 



Metathoracic spiracles not oblong-oval 1 ;i 



12. Abdomen conic-ovate, the third and fourth segments subequal, united as long as the second, the fifth 



hardly as long as the fourth or sixth ; flagellum subclavate, the joints of the funicle gradually de- 

 creasing in length, not transverse ; head wide, the temples oblique but rather broad. 



Polyscelis Dalla Torre (type Ptcromalits conspersus Walk.). 

 Abdomen ovate, pointed at apex. depres.sed above, keeled beneath : antenna' clavate. 



Paphagus Walker (type I', sidit Walk.), 

 l.^. ^Metathorax with the lateial folds and usually the median carina present ; abdomen ovate, beneath boat- 

 shaped or cariiiate : llagelluni clavate or subclavate, the club large, thicker than the funicle. 



Meraporus Walker (type M. graminicola Walk.). 

 Metathorax with the lateral folds complete, the median carina absent; abdomen short oval, convex 

 beneath : flagellum filiform or nearly, not or only slightly thickened towards apex, the joints trans- 

 verse, the club subulate ; head transverse, the vertex subacute, the temples fiat and very narrow. 



Endomychobius .\shmead (type E. flanpea Ashm.). 



15. Metathoracic spiracles oval K! 



Metathoracic spiracles small, rounded. 



Mctauotum without a median carina ; abdomen conic-ovate, beneath subconvex, the second seg- 

 ment occupying about one third the whole surface, segments 3-6 subequal, the 7th the long- 

 est, the 8lh conical : flagellum filiform, or at the most subclavate ; marginal vein long, slightly 

 thickened Scymnophagus Ashmead, g. nov. (type <S'. tmvnacndi Ashm.). 



16. Metathoiax veiy short, smooth, impunctate, with a median carina; scutellum convexly rounded ; ab- 



domen short, ovate, not longer than the thorax, boat-shape beneath, the second segment occupying 

 one third the surface, the following short, subequal. 



Epipteromalus Ashmead, g. nov. (type E. algonquinenxh Ashm). 



17. First two ring-joints minute, cciual, smaller than the third ; funide joints wider than long ; metathorax 



not short, the lateral folds incomplete, the spiracles oval ; abdomen ovate, as long as the head and 

 thorax united. 



18. Abdomen ovate, not longer than the head and thorax united, usually a little shorter, the apical mar- 



gins of the segments straight, not incised or emarginate 1!) 



Abdomen conic-ovate, often carinate beneath, and usually a little longer than the head and thorax 

 united, the .second .sepnent the longest, the third usually the shortest, both .sometimes, but not always, 

 with a slight incision or eniargination at apical middle ; segments 4-6 most frequently increasing in 

 length, the eighth conical ; sometimes segments 2-.") are subequal 20 



