206 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Family ELASMID^E. 

 Elasmus setosiscutellatus, new species. 



Female. Length about 2 mm. Above black, the head and meta- 

 thorax greenish, the pleurae and hind coxas above showing greenish or 

 purplish in certain lights; face coarsely punctured: antennae dark 

 brown ; mesonotum including the scutellum covered with black bristles ; 

 postscutellum with a small yellow spot ; tegulse black, wings hyaline, 

 veins light, the dark bristles making them appear dark ; legs very 

 dark brown, with black bristles, the tips of the anterior femora and 

 tibiae and the anterior tarsi light ; apical spurs of all tibiae white. 



Male. Length about 1.5 mm. Similar to the female except in sec- 

 ondary sexual characters. 



Habitat Dalias, Texas; 12 specimens bred from heads of 

 sorghum (Paul Hayhurst). 



Type Cat. No. 12787, U. S. National Museum. 



This species in color comes near to nigripes How., pullatus 

 How., and atratus How., but is at once separated from all of 

 them by the scutellum being- covered with bristles. 



SUPERFAMILY PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. 

 Family SCELIONID^. 



Telenomus coloradensis, new species. 



Female. Length 1 mm. Black, shining; head transverse, as broad 

 as the thorax ; face smooth, back of ocelli finely punctured ; pubescence 

 of eyes rather conspicuous; antenna? black, scape about as long as 

 pedicel, together with joints 1 to 3 of funicle ; pedicel slightly 

 longer than first joint of funicle, which in turn is longer than the 

 second, this longer than the third; fourth joint short; club 5-jointed, 

 the first joint transverse, joints 2-4 subquadrate, the fifth conical: 

 mesonotum finely punctured and pubescent ; scutellum impunctate, 

 shiny ; poscutellum with an anterior border rugoso-punctate, back 

 of this smooth, shiny, except laterally, where it is punctured ; meta- 

 thorax vertical, medially smooth; wings slightly yellowish, veins 

 yellow ; legs black, knees, anterior tibiae in front, all tibiae at bases 

 and apices, and tars' yellowish ; abdomen smooth, shiny, first and sec- 

 ond segments at bases longitudinally striate, the second segment at 

 least one and one-half times as long as wide; the following segments 

 showing slightly. 



Male. Length 1 mm. Similar to the female; first segment of thr 

 abdomen not much longer than wide: antenna 1 hardly ^is long as tin- 

 body, joints 1-3 of flagellum about equal, the second slightly longer. 



Type locality Colorado Spring's, Colorado (Dr. A. D. Hop- 

 kins collector) . 



