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CllKYSlDID.E, 



ocelli alwayspresent ; mouth-parts .similar to those of other Hymeno- 

 pterous insects (vide p. iv, Introduction to Hymenoptera, Vol. i.) ; 

 except in the subfamily Paraopinn', the maxillary palpi are 5-, the 

 labial palpi 2-3-iointed, In Faraopes the maxillary and labial 

 palpi are both 2-iointed, but the mouth-parts are enormously 

 prolonged and cxserted as in many of the Ajndo'. 



Fig. 147. 



A. 'Ihoviix (Chri/sis): side view. 



B. Tliorax (Chrysis): from above, a, collar; h, pronotuui ; c, medial urea 



mesonotum ; d, d, lateral areas mesouotum ; c, scutellum ; /, postscutellura. 



Thorax subcylindrical, more or less convex, anteriorly broad, 

 widely arched or truncate, posteriorly truncate ; pronotum always 

 broader than long, more or less transversely rectangular ; meso- 

 jiotum divided by well-marked parapsidal groo\'es into thr^e areas, 

 the medial area always longitudinally rectangular ; mesopleurse 

 may be flat, depressed or convex, more or less coarsely sculptured, 

 angular or dentate at apex ; scutellum convex, often transverse, 



Fig. 148. 



A. Upper side abdomen (C'hj-i/sis) : a, h, c, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd segments ; c, basal 



area 3rd segment; /, apical area of 3rd segment; g, retractile segments 

 partially exserted. 



B. Under side abdomen (Chri/.<is) : a, b, c, 1st, 2nd, and ord ventral segments ; 



/, retractile segments ; g, ovipositor. 



never very narrow ; postscutellum in the majority of cases convex, 

 often gibbous, occasionally mucronate at base ; median segment 

 suppressed beneath the postscutellum ; the posterior lateral angles 

 always produced and more or less prominent ; the stigmata placed 

 above or in the hollow below them : wings never very long, with 

 few nervures and cells ; legs moderately slender ; the trochanters 

 one-jointed; the femora compressed, broadest in the middle ; tibise 

 more or less cylindrical, the anterior tibirc with one, the inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae with two calcaria. 



