196 Notes on the Morphology of Chalcidoidea 
Abdomen. Dorsal surface smooth except narrowly behind the petiole and exten 
sively on the overlaps of the tergites. Reticulation a little more pronounced 
between the widely separated spiracles and between the stylets. Tergites 
subequal, 3 and 4 longer. Bristles short and fine. Tergite i bare on the disc, 
5-6 bristles on each overlap. Tergite ii with similar lateral bristles and a 
widely interrupted posterior row (4-5 ; 4-5). Tergites iii and iv have 2 irregular 
rows post-median and posterior, there being 7-8 in the first on each side and 
a few more in the second. (Tergite iv shows 24 bristles in the posterior row.) 
On the 5th tergite there are traces (3^ bristles on each side) of a 3rd row in 
front of the median one while in the posterior row (16) 3-4 at the sides are 
stronger. The spiracles are small, nearly round with 7-9 bristles behind each 
and 16 in a row between. 12-14 between the stylets. Ovipositor, free portion 
of the sheath f of base which bears 3—4 bristles on apical Only the apical 
I of the needle is serrate, the teeth minute. 
d. Head. From in front rounder and broader than in the ?, very narrowly 
flattened on the mid vertex. Clypeal lobes more widely separated. Eyes 
atrophied, the corneal area facetless, but when more closely examined rudiments 
of the internal “cup” or sclerosed rims can be made out. The whole head 
nearly uniformly chitinised, definite plates and sutures almost unrecognisable. 
Lateral ocelli smaller than the anterior—the three forming a small triangle on 
the top of the swollen vertex. Scrobes broader and nearly circular. No X-shaped 
postscapal hollow. Reticulation or pattern where traceable finer and extremely 
faint, on vertex and occiput obsolete or nearly so; on genae and round the 
scrobes a few delicate striae occasionally interconnected can be made out. 
Numerous bristles on vertex (more sparingly) and face, about 60 on each side 
of mid line between anterior ocellus and scrobes. Round the inner margin of 
each scrobe are 6-8 bristles; 3 on each median clypeal lobe before the edge, 1 at 
the edge, and 1 (fine) from below. Below the scrobes 6-8 bristles, and 6-8 
along the mouth edge from below. 
Antemiae. Scape, pedicel, ring-joint, funicle (4), club (3); length 0-4 mm. Scape 
(2:1) enormously developed, triangular, upper distal angle narrower and pro¬ 
duced beyond the wider ventral one with a broad and deep semicircular con¬ 
cavity between. The inner edge of this hollow is set with convergent bristles. 
Outer surface of scape flatter and barer but with numerous short bristles on 
the upper apical half and a few ventrally; inner more swollen especially towards 
the apex with evenly but sparsely set bristles. Within the apical excavation 
there is a clear area narrowed towards the baise of the pedicel and broader, 
more oval, ventrally. Pedicel (6: 5) triangular, ventral angle rounded, ventral 
edge excavated, 9-12 bristles externally. Ring-joint possibly as in ? but 
t have been able to distinguish only (a) a basal stalked joint with a flange 
(deeper below than above) and (b) and (c) 2 laminae. The flange of (a) is perhaps 
bilaminate, (b) and (c) are closely applied to the much swollen 1st normal 
funicular joint. The latter as wide as the club and wider than the 2nd joint 
so n\uch more developed on outer aspect that the other joints and club are 
inwardly displaced and the funicles become medianly convergent. The 
remaining 3 funicular joints short, transverse, distally straight edges, posteriorly 
