AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CEALCIDOIDEA y IV.—GIRAULT. 
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Antenna* 8-jointed, with one ring-joint, the club solid. 
Ovipositor distinctly exserted; stigmal vein normal; funicle 3 usually abruptly 
shortened; fore wings infuscated and sometimes reticulately patterned, 
s rarely hyaline. 
Marginal cilia of fore wing variable, often long; antennas varicoloured; body 
metallic. 
Ablerus Howard (Type: Centrodora clisiocampoe Ashmead). 
Antennas 8-jointed, without a ring-joint; flagellum cylindrical; legs normal; marginal 
cilia of fore wing shorter than the greatest width of that wing. 
Club 2-jointed. 
Hind tibiae armed with very stiff black bristles. 
Myiocnema Ashmead (Type: M. comperei Ashmead). 
Hind tibiae simple. Encarsia Foerster (Type: E. tricolor Foerster). 
Club 3- jointed. 
Marginal vein shorter than the submarginal. 
Prospaltella Ashmead (Type: Prospalta murtfeldtii Howard). 
Marginal vein as long as or longer than the submarginal. 
Coecophagus Westwood (Type: C. pulchellus Westwood). 
Antennae 9-jointed with one ring-joint. 
Club 3-jointed; marginal fringes of fore wing long, longer than the greatest 
width of the wings; fore wings obtusely conical; stigmal vein not promi- 
nent. Ovipositor not exserted. 
Aspidiotiphagus Howard (Type: Coecophagus citrinus Craw). 
Antennae 9-jointed with two ring- joints. 
Club 2-jointed; ovipositor strongly exserted; intermediate tibia) and first tarsal 
joint foliaceously flattened; funicle 3 abruptly short and transverse; 
marginal vein distinctly shorter than the submarginal; fore wings usual in 
shape, their marginal cilia not- as long as the greatest wddth. 
Myocnemella Girault (Type: M. bifasciata Girault). 
Tribe PTERO PTRICHSTL 
The tribe is characterised by the 4-jointed tarsi. The oblique hairless line of the fore 
wings rare with the genera if not absent. 
Genus BARDYLIS Howard. 
Antenna) 7-jointed without a ring-joint, the funicle 2-, the club long ovate, 3-jointed. 
First tarsal joint of middle legs nearly as long as joints 2 and 3 combined, the middle tibial 
-spur not quite as long as the first tarsal joint. Marginal vein somewhat shorter than the sub- 
marginal ; marginal cilia of fore wing rather long, the discal cilia dense, no oblique hairless line 
from stigmal vein. Funicle joints longer than wide, the flagellum clavate. 
Male antenna) 8-jointed, more slender, the joints of flagellum not much unequal, the club 
3-jointed; the tarsi are longer. 
