ASHMEAD : CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHALCID FLIES 6b6 



SUF.FAMILY II. MyMARIN.K. 



In this subfamily fall some of the smallest Hymenoptera known, hardly visible 

 to the naked eye, and living parasitically in the eggs of some other small insect. 



The group is distinguished by having the tarsi 4-jointed, not 5-jointed as in the 

 Gonatocerime. 



It is divided by the attachment of the abdomen into two tribes. 



TABLE OP" TRIBP:S. 



Abdomen sessile or subsessile Tribe I. Anaphini. 



Abdomen distinctly petiolate Tribe II. Mymarini. 



Tribe I. Anaphini. 

 The sessile abdomen distinguishes the tribe. 



TABLE OF (iENERA. 



1 . Females 2 



Males 4 



2. Antennic more than S-joiiitod 3 



Antenna' 8 jointed Anthemus Howard (type A. chioiuispidis How.). 



3. Antenna; 9-jointed. 



Marginal vein lengthened Anaphes Haliday (type A. fuacipmnis Hal.). 



Marginal vein not lengthened Anagrus Haliday (type Ichneumon aloinxs Linn6). 



4. Autennte more than 9-jointed 5 



AntenniB 9-jointed Anthemus Howard. 



5. Antenna; 12-jointed ; marginal vein long Anaphes Haliday. 



Antenna; 13-jointed ; marginal vein short Anagrus Haliday. 



Tribe II. Mi/marini. 

 In this tribe the abdomen is always distinctly petiolate, never sessile. 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



1. Females 2 



Males " 



2. Antennal club solid, unjointed 4 



Antennal club 2-jointed 3 



3. Marginal vein long ; tarsi short Eustochus Haliday (type E. atripennis Hal.). 



Marginal vein short ; tarsi long Doryclytus FGrstcr (type D. vitrlpennia Forster. 



4. Marginal vein either lengthened or punctifonu, but never wliolly absent (i 



Marginal and other veins absent. 



Hind wings wanting or aborted ; front wings neither spoon-shaped nornuieh l)ri)adene<l at apex, 



sometimes split into two parts ■'' 



Hind wings present, normal ; front wings spoon-shaped ; antennx 9-jointed. 



Mymarilla Westwood (type M. taprobanica Westw.). 



