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at basal third on each side of the meson but not densely so. Lateral 

 ocelli far from the eyes, somewhat nearer the middle ocellus. Ab- 

 domen glabrous except as noted. Mandibles acutely bidentate. 

 Scutellum with carinated lateral margins and a tubercle at apex. 



The male is similar but the abdomen is more ovate, segment 4 and 

 5 more transverse, the anteim^ae are filiform, the club 1 -jointed and 

 a little longer than the pedicel, the distal five funicle joints are monil- 

 iform, the first very small and cupshaped, 2 is large and crescentic, 

 longer than the club. In the male, the first three antennal joints 

 are yellow. The species americanus is nearly entirely black (tliree 

 of its types, the fourth type a different species) ; moreover its scutellum 

 is densely scaly, its parapsidal furrows very distinct and complete 

 and so on. 



From several pairs reared from the galls of Rlwj^alomyia Tdriipes 

 in New York State (Albany, E. P. Felt). 



Types. — Cat. No. 20610, U.S.N.M. two males, three females on a 

 tag, and a slide bearing a male head and four females. 



TRICHOPRIA POPENOEI Ashmead ILLINOISENSIS, new variety. 



Female. — Very similar to popenoei lyoiyenoei Ashmead but the 

 basal third of the club, the pedicel and the funicle joints are usually 

 reddish while club 1 is distinctly larger than the last funicle joint, 

 nearly as large as 2 (in the other, club 1 is but a little larger than the 

 last funicle joint and about half the size of 2). Otherwise the same. 

 Scutellum with carinated lateral margins "parapsidal furrows" 

 present, thorax caudad of scutellum tricarinate at the meson in both 

 forms. Types compared. The "parapsidal furrows" are far latcrad 

 (not the real furrows but the suture separating pleurum and notum). 

 From three females, Urbana, Illinois. 



In the supposed male, it is similar to the male of the typical form 

 except that funicle 1 is somewhat shorter. The legs may be less black 

 than usual. 



TVpcs.— Cat. No. 20842, U.S.N.M. two females on tags. 



TELENOMUS POETA, new species. 



Female. — Of the same stature and so forth as lidkonensis Ashmead 

 but the antennae and legs are entirely black, the entire head except 

 the cheeks is scaly except at the clypeus (the entire mesal face gla- 

 brous in the other), funicle 1 is no longer than the elongate pedicel 

 (distinctly longer in the other) and so on. Also segment 3 of the 

 abdomen extends nearer to the apex in the other species, the striae 

 on segment 2 extend the entire length ''only half way here) while the 

 postscutellum is rugoso-punctate but here finely long-striate. 

 Scutellum glabrous in both as is also the base of segment 3 of the 

 abdomen along extreme base in this new species, along proximal 

 fourth in hakonensis. Scutum finely rugose-scaly and pubescent in 



