Mellinidae. Trypoxylidae. Nyssonidae. 443 



3leUinidae. 



Uebersicht über die Gattungeu. Ashniead, Cauad. Eiitom. 1899 p. 298 — 300. 

 Haj)alomellinus ii. g. (Type: G. eximiiis Prov.) Ashmead, Canad. Entomol. 1899 



p. 300. 

 Harpactostigma n. g. (Type: H. velufciims Spin.) Ashmead, t. c. p. 299. 

 Hypomellinus n. g (Type : G. mfociiictus Fox) Ashmead, t. c. p. 299. 

 Mellinogastra n. g. (Type: G. mellinoides Fox) Ashmead, t. c. p. 300 



Trypoxylidae. 



Uebersicht über die Gatt. Ashmead, Canad. Entom. 1899 p. 297. 



Nyssonidae. 



Uebersicht über die Gattungen. Ashmead, Canad. Entom. 1899 p. 322— 329. 

 Die 4 Subfamilien griippiren sich nach Ashmead wie folgt: 

 Marginal cell always poiuted at apex, never tnmcate, and without an ap- 

 pendage; antennae inserted far above the clypeus, always away from the 

 clypeal suture. 



Front wings with the 2nd cnbital cell broadly sessile, never triangulär 

 er petiolate, and receiving both recurrent uervm'es, mesopleural furrow 

 usually deeply and sharply defined, complete. 



Subfam. I Gorytinae. 

 Front wings with the 2nd cub. cell petiolate, rarely triangulär, ses- 

 sile, mesopleural suture wanting or subobsolete, evanescent posteriorly. 

 Metathorax with the superior bind angles unarmed, rounded or obtuse; 

 pronotum dorsally not short, subquadrate; forras elongate. 



Subfam. n Alysouinae. 



Metathorax with the sup. bind angles always acute or produced into 



stout teeth or spines; pronotum dorsally short, narrowly transverse; 



forms broad, robust. Subfaui III Nyssoninae. 



Marg. cell always broadly truncate at apex, with an appendage; antennae 



inserted close to the clypeus, or very close to the clypeal suture. 



Subfam. IV Astatinae. 



Subfam. Gorytinae. 

 Agrnptus Wesm. p. 325. 



Argogorytes n. g. Ashm. (Type: C. carbonarius Smith) p. 324. 



Clitemnestra Spin. p. 324. 



Gorytes Latr. p. 324. — 6 nordamer. Sp. 



Harpactus Jurine (= Dienoplus Fox) p. 324. — 7 nordamer. Sp. 



Harpactus cockerelli Ashmead, Entom. News Fhilad. 1899 p. 10, hmvardi p. 9 

 (N. Amerika). 



Hoplisoides Gribodo p. 323 (Cubitus in bind wings interstitial). — 28 nord- 

 amer. Sp. 



Hoplisus Lep. p. 322. — 18 nordamer. Sp. 



Kanfmannia Radoszk. p. 324. 



Lestiphorus Lep. p. 324. 



Miscothyris Smith p. 325. 



Argogorytes n. g. (Type: G. carbonarius Smith. — Body wholly black: 1. abdom. 

 segm. with a hump-like elevation above; scutellum with a transverse, crenu- 

 late furrow at base. — New Zealand) Ashmead, !. c. p. 324. 



Fseudoplisus n. g. Ashm. (Type: G. floridanus Fox) p. 323. — 20 nordamer. Sp. 



