Girault, the Chalcid Genus Hypopteromalus. 
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FAMILY PTEROMALIDAK—SUBFAMILY PTFROMALIN^. 
Tribe Rhaphitelini 
Genus Hypopteromalus Ashmead. 
(Type : Glyphe viridescens Walsh.) 
Ashmead, 1904, pp. 310, 378. 
Schmiedeknecht, 1909, p. 355. 
Normal position; description based on the type species. 
$.—Normal in stature. Metallic green, head and thorax punctate. 
Abdomen with short petiole. 
(Cephalic aspect) Head conspicuous, almost circular, its margins 
round'ed, the face broad, sublenticular, the clypeus wider than long, 
its surface slightly inpressed below the general surface of the face so 
that the sclerite is distinctly outlined longitudinally, radially rugulose 
or striate, its sutures obsolete, its apical margin practically truncate, 
very slightly concave, along its whole length very slightly emarginate 
at the meson and a slight incision is present along the ventral border 
of the fac'e just laterad of the clypeus, involving the sclerite’s lateral 
margin; basal (dorsal) margin of the clypeus slightty convex at the 
meson, bisinuate, its dorso-lateral angle slightly more impressed. 
Antennae inserted slightly below (ventrad) of th'e middle of the “face” 
or the distance between the cephalic margin of the vortex and the 
apical margin of the clypeus, slightly oVer a third of the way up 
(dorsad) the margins, distinctly above (dorsad) an imaginary line 
drawn between the ventral ends of the eyes and farther from the 
clypeus than that scl'erite is long at the meson, the bulbs distinctly 
separated. Face ventrad, directly below the antennal insertions, with 
two shallow longitudinal impressions, one on each side of the meson, 
entering the dorso-lateral angles of the clypeus 1 ; mesal facial 
impressions moderately narrow but distinct, extending nearly to the 
cephalic ocellus from the antennal bulbs, its margins not acute and 
the antennal scrobes obsolete or not differentiated from the mesal 
facial impression. 
(Lateral aspect) Genal sulcus inconspicuous, short, not half as 
long as the eye, the latter ovate; genae rounded; gen'eral shape of 
head, ovate. 
(Cephalic aspect) Head distinctly wider than the greatest width 
of the thorax, nearly thrice wider than long, the vertex broad, obtuse, 
1) Also an obscure oblique impression, narrow, running- from about the 
bulb of the antenna ventro-lateral to the margin of the head, 
between the dorso-lateral angle of the clypeus and the ventral end 
of the eye, nearer the former; this is visible in certain lights only. 
