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Scutellura obtuse and rounded at the tip. - Epidaus. 



Scutellum triangular, sometimes rather acute. 



Legs long, slender. 

 Body elongated. Head with two spines in 



front. First joint of the rostrum longer than 



the second. Fore wings not or hardly 



extending beyond the tip of the abdomen. - Pnir»ub 



Body oblong. Head in front behind the 



antennae with two little lobes. First and 



second joints of the rostrum about equal in 



length. Fore wings extending much 



beyond the tip of the abdomen. - - Vesuxus. 



First joint of the rostrum shorter than the 



second. 

 First joint of the rostrum a little shorter than 



the second. Body oblong. Lobes of the 



disk of the prothorax spiny. - - Gminatus. 



First joint of the rostrum much shorter than 



the second. Lobes of the disk of the pro- 

 thorax with no spines. 

 Body somewhat elongated. Hind lobe of the 



prothorax armed on each side a little before 



the lateral angles, with a long spine which 



is more or less inclined forward. - - Euagoras. 



Body slightly elongated. Side angles of the 



hind lobe of the prothorax acute, slightly 



prominent outward. ... Vestula. 



Side angles of the hind lobe of the prothorax 



unarmed, rounded, rarely prominent. 

 Head longer than the prothorax. Scutellum 



with a very distinct tubercle or with a more 



or less erect spine, which is sometimes 



dichotomous at the tip. Abdomen most 



often much dilated and rounded. - - Sycanus. 



Scutellum unarmed or with a short obtuse 



spine which is inclined backward, hardly 



reflexed. 

 Several segments of the abdomen or at least one 



widened into a rounded lobe. 

 Hind lobe of the prothorax bituberculate. - Ulfids. 



Hind lobe of the prothorax with no tubercles. 

 Abdomen even at the tip greatly dilated ; 



dilated part of the segments convex. - Yolinus. 



Abdomen not or slightly dilated hindward. 

 Head longer than the prothorax. Legs not 



knotty. ..... Pantoleistes. 



Head not longer than the prothorax. Legs 



slightly knotty. .... Velinus. 



No segment of the abdomen or only the apical 



one prominent in a lobe. 

 Second joint of the rostrum more than thrice 



longer than the first. Abdomen very 



