1909] GIRAULT AND SANDERS — CHALCIDOID PARASITES 123 
apicad of the postmarginal vein in the female, but in the male slenderer and sub- 
fuscous, not subpyriform, rather, strongly clavate. Different in aspect. 
Head (cephalic aspect) not noticeably impressed along the meson, more con- 
vex; (lateral aspect) the eyes more rounded and proportionately larger, the genae 
not as long as the eyes, the scape reaching to the apex of the vertex or slightly beyond; 
(dorsal aspect) head the same but much wider than the greatest width of the thorax, 
at least a third or more wider; antennae inserted slightly more dorsad, not quite 
half way up the eye margins, the flagellum slenderer, the funicle joints not quite.as 
wide in proportion to their length as in the female, the proximal funicle joints quad- 
rate or subquadrate (Fig. 4); mandibles as in the female. Genal sulcus absent. 
Pronotum slightly longer in proportion to the length of the mesoscutum; the 
transverse groove before the apex of the scutellum more distinct; the lateral carinae 
of the metathorax complete, distinct, curved, the median carina distinct, but faint; 
metathoracic spiracles slightly smaller, farther caudad, elliptical. Metathorax 
punctate. 
Abdomen the same, but depressed, concave dorsad (dead specimens), variable 
in length but usually not exceeding that of the thorax and from dorsal aspect ovate; 
segment 2 the longest and broadest segment, but not quite as long in relation to the 
length of the abdomen as in female, all of the caudal margins of the segments straight; 
segments 4 and 5 subequal, both together about equal to the length of segment 3, 
which is not quite a third of the length of segment 2; segments 6, 7, and 8 longer 
than segment 4 or 5, but not as long as segment 3, all subequal, the 8th the longest 
of the three and conic in shape. Genitalia exserted in death. 
Fore wings (Fig. 5) different, more pubescent or ciliate in the apical half than in 
the female fore wing, subclavate, with a dusky hue due to the thick discal cilia and 
slightly fumated and opalescent. Venation the same but the knob of the stigmal vein 
is larger, more dilated. 
A genus of rather short and stout parasites, not unusual for its family, excepting 
in the case of the wings of the male. If placed in the tribe Roptrocerini, it would be 
nearest to Uriella Ashmead, but differing from that genus in the shorter, broader, 
differently shaped abdomen, the entirely different, stouter and shorter, antennae, in 
the longer third abdominal segment and antennal pedicel, the shorter postmarginal 
vein, the larger metathoracic spiracles, the presence of the lateral carinae or folds 
of the metathorax and possibly in mandibular characters, those of Uriella being 
perhaps 3-dentate (Ashmead, 1896). The genus has also many of the characters of 
Mormoniella Ashmead of the tribe Rhaphitelini, another genus without a described 
type species. 
