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5. Front wings widened only at apex and with a long marginal fringe ; antennae 9-jointed. 



Mymar Haliday (type M. pulchellus Hal.). 

 Front wings not wide, sometimes split at apex ; antennae apparently but 3-jointed. 



Packardiella Ashmead (type Pteratomus puttnanii Pack.). 



6. Antennae 9-jointed. 



Marginal vein punctiform Polynema Haliday (type Ichneumon ovulorum Hal.). 



Marginal vein lengthened. 



Metanotum without a carina Stlchothrix Forster (type S. cardui Forst.). 



Metanotum with two carinae Ceraphractus Haliday (type C. cinctus Hal.). 



7. Marginal vein punctiform or lengthened 9 



Marginal vein and all others absent or wanting. 



Front wings narrow, usually somewhat broader toward apex, or linear or split at apex ; hind 



wings usually absent or aborted 8 



Front wings bi'oad, spoon-shaped ; hind wings entire. 



Antennae 13-jointed MymarlUa Westwood. 



8. Front wings not split at apex ; antennae 13-jointed Mymar Haliday. 



Front wings linear or split at apex ; antennae (?) imperfect Packardiella Ashmead. 



9. Marginal vein lengthened , , 10 



Marginal vein punctiform. 



Antennae 13-jointed Polynema Haliday. 



10. Antennae 10-jointed ; metanotum smooth, without,a carina Stichothrix Forster. 



Antennae 11 -jointed ; metanotum bicarinate Ceraphractus Forster. 



Genera unknown to Author and not Classified. 

 Chalcites Heer (Fossil), Vierteljahrschr. naturf. Ges. Zurich, I., 1856, p. 26. (Type 



■C. debilis Heer.) 

 Cyni'psichneumon Christ, Naturg. d. Insect., 1791, p. 377. (Type not mentioned.) 

 Lycus Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., X., 1843, p. 114. (Type L. origo Walker.) 



Belongs evidently to the Microgasteridse. 

 Norbanus Walker, Ann. Soc. ent. France (2), I., 1843, p. 158. (Type N. dysaules 



Walker.) 

 Peridesmia Forster, Hym. Stud., II., 1856, p. 65. (No type given.) 

 Prionopus, Dalmsin^ Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl, XLVL, 1825, p. 393. (No type 



given.) 



Genera Incorrectly Placed with the Chalcidoidea. 

 Agonophorus Dalman, Ofvers. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forhl., XIV., 1867, p. 287. 



(No type given.) 



Belongs evidently to the superfamily Proctotrypoidea. 

 Diplalepis Fabricius, Syst. Piez., 1804, p. 149 {= Diastrophus). 



Belongs to the superfamily Cynipoidea, family Cynipidx. 



