ASHMKAI 



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3. Abdomen ovate ; metathorax large, with delicate, irref^ular raised lines ; second abdoniiniil segment 



large, occupying fully one third or more of the whole surface of abdomen, the following segments 

 short, subequal Dipara Walker (type D. petwlala Walk.). 



4. Petiole linear, longer than the hind coxic 5 



Petiole shorter, not longer than the hind coxa\ 



Antenna; filiform, not verticellate, pilose Panstenon Walker. 



5. Antenna; with the joints of the flagellum well separated, subpedunctate and somewhat verllcellate- 



pilose ; body of abdomen oval or rounded, tlie second segment occupying fully one half tlie whole 

 surface Dipara Walker. 



Family LXX. ELASMID/E. 

 1840. Eulopliides, Sulifaniily 5 (partim), Westwoud, Intro. Mod. Class. Ins., II.; 



Synop., p. 73. 

 18l(). Eulophidie, Family II. (partini), Walker, List Chalc. Brit. Museum, I., p. Gl. 

 1856. Elasmoidte, Familie 17, Forster, Hym. Stud., II., pp. 19, 25 and 71. 

 1878. Elasmina, Tribus, Thomson, Hym. Skand., V., p. 180. 

 188(5. Elasminaj, Subfamily, Howard, Ent. Amer., I., j). 198. 

 1897. Elasmidie, Family LXX., Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc Washington, IV., p. 2:;(3. 



This family is not closely allied tu any other, although, on account of the 

 4-jointed tarsi, and the flabellate anteiuia- in the males, it deceptively reseml)le8 the 

 famil}' Euhiphidii'. Structurally, however, the two families are totally distinct, the 

 thorax, the front wings, the legs and the alidonien lu'lng (piite dillerent in these 

 families. 



In mesothoracic and alxlominal characters the Kht^inhhi show .some aflinity 

 with the Kncyrtidiv, but the relationship, if it ever existed, must have been very re- 

 mote, in ages past, and it is not now traceable in the forms thus far discovered. 



The group is easily recognized by the compressed, triangular shape of the body 

 and abdomen, l)y the longer and narrower wings, by the venation, the marginal 

 vein being usually, although not always, very long, with the stigmal vein very short, 

 and by the abnormally developed legs, the hind coxie being very large, strongly 

 compressed, disk-like, the hind femora being rather stout, the til>i;e and tarsi being 

 very slender, the latter Ijeing very long. 



The species of Elasrans attack usually Icpidnplcrous lar\a', but some have al.so 

 been bred from microgasterid cocoons and iVom other insects. The Australia genus 

 Earijlsuhin Howard, attacks dipterous larv:e. 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



1. Females 2 



Males 3 



