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Abdomen subglobose or short oval, the second segment very large, occupying nearly the whole surface, 

 the following very short, more or less retracted within the second ; scutellum with a cross-furrow 



very near its apex Mesolelaps Ashmead (type M. cyaneivenfris Ashm.). 



6. Petiole of abdomen long, the body small, spatulate ; antennae very long, 14-jointed, longer than the 

 Avhole body, the joints long, cylindrical, clothed with long, sparse hairs Lelaps Haliday. 



Petiole of abdomen very short, the body oblong-oval, truncate at a]3ex; antennse not longer than the 

 thorax, 13-jointed, the flagellum filiform, pubescent, the joints after the first about twice as long as 

 thick , Mesolelaps Ashmead. 



Family LXVII. CLEONYMID/E. 



1837. Cleonymidse, Family (partim), Walker, Ent. Mag., IV., p. 349. 



1846. Eupelmidee, Family 9 (partim). Walker, List Chalcid. Brit. Museum, I., p. 52. 



1856. Cleonymoidse, Familie XIV.! (partim), Forster, Hym. Stud., II., pp. 19, 24 



and 46. 

 1875. Cleonymides, Su.btribus, Thomson, Hym. Skand., IV., p.- 2 1 7. 

 1878. Cleonymides, Subtribus, Thomson, Hym. Skand., V,, p. 3. 

 1886. Cleonymides, Tribe, Howard, Entom. Amer., II., pp. 33, 34. 

 1899. Cleonymidse, Family LXVL, Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, IV., p. 200. 



An historical sketch of this family was given in my paper entitled : " On the 

 Genera of the Cleonymidse," published in 1899. 



Unquestionably, the family comes nearest to the family Encyrtidse, and forms a 

 connecting link between it and some families previously treated, i. e., the Chalcididx, 

 Eurytomidse and the Miscogasteridse ; some genera in the subfamily Chalcededinse 

 especially being remarkably like some genuine Chalcididx. Many males, too, are 

 easily mistaken for genuine Eupelmines and Encyrtines. Pelecinella has some char- 

 acters similar to the Eurytomidse, and the Torymidx. 



Coleotrechnus, placed in this family, is unknown to me. It is placed here from the 

 description alone, and may be a genuine Encyrtid, although nothing is said of a salta- 

 torial middle tibial spur. 



TABLE OF SUBFAMILIES. 



1. Mesonotal furrows not at all indicated 4 



Mesonotal furrows more or less distinct 2 



2. Abdomen longly petiolated 3 



Abdomen sessile, or subpetiolate, never longly petiolate. 



Posterior femoi'a much swollen and usually toothed or finely denticulate beneath, as in Chalets, 

 Smicra, etc. ; abdomen usually depressed, the ovipositor rarely exserted ; antennae at the most 11. 

 jointed Subfamily I. Chalcedectin^. 



Posterior femora not much swollen and veiy rarely toothed beneath, the anterior femora usually 

 more or less enlarged, sometimes very much swollen and often excised or dentate beneath 

 toward apex ; ovipositor often, but not always, exserted ; antennae 11-13-jointed. 



Subfamily II. Cleonymin^. 



