354 MEMOIES OP THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Tribe III. Elachertini. 

 This tribe may be at once recognized from the two tribes previously defined by 

 the hind tibise having only one apical spur ; otherwise it is scarcely distinguishable 

 from the Ophelinmi, many genera falling in it being easily confused with some in 

 that tribe. 



TABLE OF GENERA. 



1. Females 2 



Males 14 



2. Abdomen distinctly petiolate 3 



Abdomen sessile or subsessile 5 



3. Scutellum with two dorsal grooved lines. 



Body neither wholly black or wholly metallic, more or less yellow or marked with yellow... 4 



Body metallic or wholly black ; abdomen ovate, hardly as long as the thorax, or rounded ; 



antennae 9-jointed (or 10-jointed, with one ring-joint), the funicle 4-jointed, the joints not or 



very little longer than thick Elachertus Spinola (type E. abdominalis Spinola). 



4. Abdomen conic-ovate, barely longer than the thorax ; antenuse 10-jointed with one ring-joint, the 



fiinicle 4-jointed, the joints long, loosely joined,, the club 3-jointed, marginal vein very long. 



5. Scutellum with two dorsal grooved lines 6 



Scutellum without dorsal grooved lines 9 



6. Head, viewed from in front, wider than long and not especially thin antero-posteriorly 7 



Head, viewed from in fi'ont, much longer than wide, and very thin antero-posteriorly 8 



7. Body not metallic, the head and thorax marked with yellow. 



Antennae 9-jointed, with one ring-joint, the pedicel much longer than wide, the funicle 3-jointed, 



subcompressed, the club 3-jointed.. ..Cirrospilus Westwood (type C elegantissimus Westw.). 



Antennae 10-jointed, with one ring-joint, the pedicel short, only a little longer than thick, the 



funicle 4-jointed, the club 3-jointed Cirrospiloideus Ashmead, g. nov. 



(type Miotropis platynotse Howard). 



Body metallic ; antennae 10-jointed, with one ring-joint, the pedicel longer than wide, the funicle 4- 



jointed, joints 2-4 not longer than thick Elachertus Spinola (partim). 



8. Antennae 8-jointed, without a ring-joint or 9-jointed with a ring-joint, the pedicel not much longer than 



wide, the flagellum subcompressed ; body striped or banded with black lines ; wings banded or macu- 

 late Zagrammosoma Ashmead n. n. (type Hippocephalus multilineata Ashm.). 



9. Antennae 8-jointed or less 10 



Antennae 9-jointed or more 12 



10. Funicle 3-jointed, the club 3-jointed 11 



Funicle 2-jointed, the joints subpedunculate, the club ovate, 3-jointed. 



Middle lobe of the mesonotum longer than wide ; metathorax very short, the apical lateral 



angles subacute ; abdomen oblong-oval, depressed Scotolinx Ashmead, gen. nov. 



(type S. gallicola Ashm.). 



11. Mesonotum a little longer than wide ; abdomen conic-ovate Olynx Forster 



(type Ichneumon gallarum L.). 



Mesonotum a little wider than long ; abdomen oval or ovate Parolynx Ashmead 



(type P. lineatifrons Ashm.). 



12. Antennae 10-jointed, with one ring-joint 13 



