SUPERFAM. H ALICTOPH AGOI DEA 



Halictophagoidea. Pierce, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. Vol. g, p. 76 (190S): Bull. U. S. Xat. Mus. no. 66, 



p. i55 (1909). 



Characters. — Male. — Tarsi with three joints. 



Female. — Head with apical tubercles; spiracles not usually discernible, never prominent. 



The superfamily contains two families parasitic on the Tetigonidae. 



TABLE OF FAMILIES 



ia. Male antennae four-jointed, with iheflabellumofihe third, and the fourth 



joint elongate, subequal 1. Fam. Diozocerid.e, Pierce. 



lb. Male antennae seven-jointed, ivith the third, fourth, fifth and sixth joints 



laterally produced and the seventh elongate 2. Fam. Hai.ictophagid.e, Pierce. 



FAM. DIOZOCERID/E 



Dioxoceridae. Pierce, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. Vol. 9, p. 76 (1908); Bull. U. S. Xat. Mus. no. 66, 



p. i63 (1909). 

 Diozoceridas. Pierce, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 40, p. 504 (191 1). 



Characters. — Male. — Antenna? four-jointed, as in Xenidae. Tarsi three-jointed. 



I. Genus DIOZOCERA, Pierce 



Dioxocera. Pierce, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. Vol. 9, p. 81 (1908) (typographical error): Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. no. 66, p. i63 (1909). 

 Oiozocera. Pierce, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 40, p. 504 (1911) (application made to International 



Commission of Nomenclature for authority to emend). 



Characters. — Male. — Head transverse. Antennas four-jointed, xeniform. Prothorax and 

 mesothorax transverse. Metathorax elongate; prsescutum elongate, once and a half as long as wide at 

 base, sides converging apically. apex rounded: scuti long, separated by prsescutum and scutellum; 

 scutellum subtriangular, apically broadly convexly truncate, basal angles prolonged; postlumbium 



