ashmead: classification of tiik (Iiai-cid fliks 349 



G. Seutc'Uum with two longitudinal grooved lines ; hind wings acutely pointed ; front wings with a long 



marginal fringe Gyrolasia Forster (type Iteroplrir mrnes Walk.). 



Scutellum with /our longitudinal grooved lines ; hind wings not acutely pointed. 



Head and thorax smooth or nearly, at the most only sparsely punctate, metanotum .smooth, 

 with a delicate median carina ; abdomen rotund or broadly oval, shorter than the thorax but 



wider Syntomosphyrum FiJrster (type Eulophus cyclogaster Katz.). 



Head and thorax shagrcened or jjunctate, as well as the abdomen ; metanotum punctate ; 

 abdomen rather long, cylindrical, the segments subequal Trichoporus Forster (partim). 



7. Scape of antenmc normal, neither greatly thickened nor dilated 8 



Scape of antenn;c abnormal, enormously enlarged, or dilated ; antennic O-jointed with onr ring-joint, 



the funicle 4-jointed. 



Front wings with a long marginal fringe; funicle joints short, moniliform. .. .Ceranisus Walker 



(type a iHWin-itw Walk). 

 Front wings with a short marginal fringe ; funicle joints longer than thick. Baryscapus Forster 



(type unknown). 



8. Antenuie 10-jointed, with two ring-joints, the funicle 3-joiuted, the club ovate, 3-jointed 9 



Antenuje 9-jointed, with one ring-joint, or less than 9-jointed 10 



9. Abdomen ovate or conic-ovate, rarely, although sometimes, gi-eatly lengthened and conically produced 



as in HyperMeg Tetrastichus Haliday (type Eulophus miser 'Sees). 



10. Antenna; 9-jointed, with one ring-joint 11 



AntennjB 8-jointed, with one ring-joint 12 



11. Front legs normal, the tibiiE and tarsi long and slender; pronotum not long, rounded before, hardly 



half the length of the mesonotum ; abdomen much elongate, conically produced, subcompressed, with 



usually a prominent ovipositor ; funicle joints much longer than thick Aprostocerus Westwood 



(type .1. caurliiliis Wesiw.). 

 Front legs abnormal, much swollen, the tibiic short and thick ; pronotum large, transverse quadrate, 

 nearly as long as the mesonotum, the front angles a little rounded ; body of abdomen oblong, de- 

 pressed, not longer than the head aiul thorax united, the ovipositor prominent but not longer than 

 half the length of tin- al)domen ; funicle joints short, not longer than thick, sometimes a little wider 

 than long Crataepus Forster (type C. agrisgranensis Forst.). 



12. Abdomen ovate, the ovipositor hidden. 



Antenna; very short, clavate, the pedicel obcouic, lliickcr anil longer than the (irst two joints 

 of the funicle united, which are small, quadnite ; wings with a long marginal fringe. 



Pentastichus Ashmead (type P. xanlbopus Ashm.). 



13. ]\Iesonotum wHIkikI a median grooved line 14 



Mesonotum wilh a median grooved line 21 



14. Species fully winged lo 



Apterous or subapterous. 



Pronotum long, conical ; antenna' il-jointed, inserted close to the mouth, the scape long, 

 broadly dilated towai-ds apex, the pedicel and first funicle joint dilated, the funicle 

 joints 2-4 small, transvcree, the club ovate, 3-jointed Melittobia Wcstw. 



15. Antenna' !l-jointcd with one ring-joint Hi 



Antennic 8-jointed or less 20 



16. Front wings with a short marginal fringe, the hind wings not acutely pointed at apex 17 



Front wings with a long marginal fringe, the hind wings acutely pointed at apex. Gyrolasia Forster. 



