28 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
EPpyRIs NIGER. 
CERAPHRONIDS. 
A. No ocelli. - - : - - LAGYNODES, female. 
B. Ocelli conspicuous. 
a. Wings without a determinate costal stigma, 
or merely with a linear one. 
*« Front between the base of the antenna with 
a spine. - - : - - LagynopDEs, male. 
** The same with no spine. - - - CERAPHRON. 
b. Wings with a broad costal stigma. 
* Wings hairless. — - : - _-  ‘TRICHOSTERESIS. 
** Wings hairy. 
+ Antenne of the male serrated. yee of the 
female bare. . LyaoceRrus. 
++ Antenne of the male filiform: Byes of ae 
female hairy. — - - - MEGASPILUs. 
The genus Lagynodes was previously named Microps, but 
Foerster does not recognize the latter name, because it had 
been already applied to a reptile and to a beetle. The genus 
Ceraphron of Jurine is not identical with that of Latreille 
and of Nees, but corresponds with the genus Calliceras of 
the latter, and the name Calliceras is set aside by Foerster 
on account of its resemblance to the Dipterous genus 
Callicera. The genus Megaspilus formerly included the 
