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the first three joints of funicle subquadrate, the fourth transverse, the club 

 five jointed; mesoscuturn rather coarsely and closely punctured; scutellum 

 similarly punctured but the disk smooth and polished; legs brown with the 

 bases and apices of femora and tibiae, and the tarsi entirely, lighter; first 

 abdominal segment striate at base, second with a basal row of pits and 

 beyond this a few short strise medially. 



Male: Length about 0.7 mm. Similar to the female ; the antennae flavous, 

 pedicel longer than first joint of funicle; the first three joints of funicle 

 almost subequal in length, slightly longer than broad; the following joints 

 transverse, the last conical; legs, except coxae, flavous, the femora slightly 

 infuscated; striae on second abdominal segment beyond the basal pits, 

 longer and more numerous than in female. 



Type-locality: Plantation La Bonne Intention, British Guiana. 

 Other locality: Plantation Oitvlugt, British Guiana. 



Host: Eggs of Diatrcea saccharalis. 



The series from the type locality contains six females and one 

 male with the date February 2, 1913; from the other locality one 

 female and eight males, with the date January 31, 1913, all col- 

 lected by Mr. G. E. Bodkin. 



Type: Cat. No. 18170, U. S. N. M. 



This species is near to (Telenomus) Prophanurus impressus 

 Ashmead to which it runs in his table 1 but differs in the flattened 

 head and the dark legs of the female, etc. 



Prophanurus thais n. sp. 



Female: Length about 0.9 mm. Black, the legs, except the dark front 

 coxae, testaceous; head transverse, the posterior orbits very narrow, cari- 

 nate; face reticulated; scape testaceous, funicle light brown, becoming 

 darker apically; club five-jointed, dark brown; pedicel and first joint of 

 funicle subequal in length, following joints of funicle subquadrate; meso- 

 scutum with coarse punctures, the extreme rear smooth, the scutellum 

 smooth; first abdominal segment rugose almost to apex, second segment 

 with basal row of pits but beyond them smooth. 



Male: Length about 0.9 mm. Similar to the female, the antennae testa- 

 ceous shading into brown on apical half of funicle ; pedicel about as long as 

 third joint of funicle, distinctly shorter than the first, the first and second 

 subequal; fourth joint of funicle longer than broad, the following joints 

 subquadrate; the last twice as long as broad. 



Type-locality: Georgetown, British Guiana. Described from 

 15 specimens bred July 7, 1912, from the eggs of a large pentatomid 

 by Mr. G. E. Bodkin. 



Type: Cat. No. 18171, U. S. N. M. 



1 Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 2, vol. xxv, 1894, pp. 201-203. 



