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Antennse 9-jointed, with one ring-joint. 



Non-metallic, usually yellowish, or the thorax more or less yellow ; scutellum with 4 bristles ; 

 pronotum campanulate ; abdomen ovate or conic-ovate Cirrospilus Westwood (partim). 



13. Metallic in part ; mesonotum not longer than the scutellum ; abdomen broadly rounded, depressed, 



and a little shorter than the thorax Rhicnopelte Forster (type B. fulviventris Forster). 



Non-metallic ; mesonotum long ; abdomen elongate oval or ovate, usually pointed at apex and longer 

 than the thorax Stenomesioidea Ashmead, g. nov. (type S. mellea Ashm.). 



14. Abdomen distinctly petiolate 15 



Abdomen sessile or subsessile 17 



15. Scutellum with two dorsal grooved lines. 



Body neither metallic nor wholly black 16 



Body metallic or wholly black. 



Antennae 10-jointed, with one ring-joint Elachertus Spinola. 



16. Antennae 10-jointed, with one ring-joint. Cirrospiloideus Ashmead. 



17. Scutellum with two dorsal grooved lines 18 



Scutellum without dorsal grooved lines 21 



18. Head normal, viewed from in front wider than long or rounded, not especially thin antero-pos- 



teriorly 19 



Head abnormal, viewed from in front much longer than wide and very thin antero-posteriorly 20 



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



Antennse 9-jointed, with one ring-joint Cirrospilus Westwood- 



Antennse 10-jointed, with one ring-joint Cirrospiloideus Ashmead. 



Body metallic ; antennse 10-jointed, with one ring-joint, the funicle 4-jointed Elachertus Spinola. 



20. Antennse 9-jointed with a ring-joint, body striped or banded with black lines ; wings banded or macu- 



late Zagrammosoma Ashmead. 



21. Antennse 8-jointed or less 22 



Antennse 9-jointed or more 24 



22. Funicle 3-jointed , 23 



Funicle 2-jointed Scotolinx Ashmead. 



23. Mesonotum longer than wide Olynx Forster. 



Mesonotum a little wider than long Paraolinx Ashmead. 



24. Antennse 10-jointed, with one ring-joint. 



Non-metallic (?) genus. 



Antennse 9-jointed, with one ring-joint. 



Metallic Rhicnopelte Forster. 



Non-metallic Cirrospilus Westwood (partim). 



Subfamily V. Eulophin^, 

 1856. Eulophoidse, Familie 19 (partim), Forster, Hym. Stud., II., pp. 19, 26 and 74. 

 1875. Eulophina, Tribus (partim), Thomson, Hym. Skand., V., p. 180. 

 1886. Eulophinse, subfamily (partim), Howard, Ent. Amer., I., p. 198 ; II., p. 99. 



To this subfamily are restricted all Eulophids having the mesonotum entire or 

 only partially divided, the mesonotal furrows being at the most only indicated an- 

 teriorly ; otherwise it resembles the others. 



