460 Dr. Rob. Lucas: Entomologie. Hymenoptera 1900. 
Superfamilia V Proctotrypoidea. 
Ashmead giebt in d. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. XXIII No. 1206 p. 198—9 
folg. Uebers. üb. die Fam.: 
Trochanters distinctly 2-jointed. 2. 
Trochanters 1-jointed. 
Antenn. 14-joint., inserted on the middle of the face; front wings w. a, 
lanceolate stigma, the marg. cell long, open at apex; max. palp. 5-, lab. palp. 
3-jointed; Q-abd. very greatiy lengthened, slend. a. cylindr., about 5>< the 
length of the head a. thor. united, compos. of 6sgms., J-abd. elavate. 
Fam. L Pelecinidae. 
2. Antenn. inserted at the clyp. 5. 
Antenn. inserted on the middle of the face, oft. on a frontal prominence 
wingless forms. 4. 
Winged. 
Front-wings w. the marg. vein lin., never stigmated. 3. 
Front.-w. w. the marg. v. stigmated, or w. a distinct stigma. 
Mand. dentate; antenn. 14—15-joint.; claws simple or pectin.; h.-w. with a 
more or less distinet venation. Fam. LI Heloridae. 
Mand. edentate, antenn. 13-joint. w. a ring joint; claws simple; h.-w. with- 
out a distinet venation. Fam. LII Proetotrypidae., 
3. Front-w. w. a distinet basal cell a. usually w. a marg. cell oft. closed, never 
entirely wanting, although often incomplete; h-wings always w. a basal cell; 
antenn. 14—15-joint.; lab. palpi 3-jointed. Fam. LIIl Belytidae. 
Fr.-w. rarely w. a distinet bas. cell, the med. v. most frequently obsolete or 
subobsol. the marg. cell never complete, usually entirely wanting, h.-w. 
always without a basal cell; antenn. 12, 13 or 14-jointed, lab. palp. 2-jointed. 
Fam. LIV Diapriidae. 
4. Mand. edentate. Fam. LII Proctotrypidae. 
Mand. dentate. 
Labial palpi 3-jointed. Fam. LIII Belytidae. 
Labial palpi 2-jointed. Fam. LIV Diapriidae. 
Wingless forms. if 
Winged. 
Abd. acute or margined along the sides, sess. or subsess. 6 
Abd. rounded at sides, nev. acute or margined, sess. or subsess.; front 
tib. w. the apie. spur strongly forked; antenn. in Q 10--11-jointed, in & 
11-jointed; front wings always without a postmarg. vein, the stigmal v. or 
radius usually long, the marginal v. either lin. or stigmated. 
Fam. LV Ceraphronidae. 
6. Front wings most frequently w. marg. a stigmal veins; antenn. usually 12- 
jointed in SQ, but sometimes in.Q 11-joint. or 7-joint. when the club joints 
coalesce. Fam. LVI Scelionidae. 
Front wings always without marg. a. stigm. veins, a. most frequently vein- 
less, at the most with only the submarg. or subcost. v. present, which is 
sometimes clavate or stigmated at apex; antenn. never more than 10-jointed, 
