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stigmal vein, darkest behind the base of marginal vein and behind 

 the stigmal vein ; a broad apical band hyaline. 



Male. — Length 4.75 mm. Similar in every respect to the female 

 except that the scape is slightly more thickened, the general color is 

 somewhat darker, and the femora and tibiae are more or less dis- 

 tinctly infuscated. 



Redescribed from a large series of specimens received through the 

 Bureau of Entomology from T. Bainbridge Fletcher of the Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture of India, who stated that they were 

 reared from eggs of Hilda 'bengalensis Distant at Pusa, Bihar, India. 

 These specimens have been compared with the type of the species and 

 agree in every way. 



Superfamily SERPHOIDEA. 

 Family SCELIONIDAE. 



TELENOMUS (PROPHANURUS) BUSSEOLAE, new species. 



Characterized by its small size, generally polished appearance, 

 weakly sculptured mesoscutum and by having the thorax strongly 

 compressed dorso-ventrally. 



/^e/na?^.— Length 0.66 mm. Head strongly transverse, fully four 

 times as broad as thick antero-posteriorly ; occiput weakly margined 

 above; frons polished, A-ertex distinctly finely punctate; antennae 

 inserted at extreme lower margin of head, clavate, 11-jointed, the 

 club 5-jointed; third and fourth antennal joints subequal and each 

 about as long as broad, together subequal to the pedicel in length: 

 fifth slightly smaller than the fourth, sixth the smallest; seventh 

 about half as long as broad; eighth, ninth, and tenth also transverse 

 but less strongly so than the seventh; eleventh longer than broad, 

 conical; thorax strongly compressed dorso-ventrall}^ ; mesoscutum 

 distinctly broader than long, rounded in front, distinctly finely 

 punctate anteriorly and laterally, the posterior middle for about 

 one-third the length of mesoscutum smooth and polished ; scutellum, 

 postscutellum and propodeum polished, the propodeum with two 

 delicate narrowly separated and slightly curved carinae medially; 

 abdomen ovate, shorter than the thorax ; first tergite finely striate at 

 base, apical two-thirds smooth; second tergite large, very finely 

 striate at extreme base, otherwise polished ; segments beyond the sec- 

 ond very short, polished ; head, thorax,' and abdomen black ; antennal 

 scape and legs, except coxae, testaceous; antennal flagellum brownish; 

 wings hj'aline. 



iI/ft^e,_Similar in size and color to the female; antennae monili- 

 form, 12-jointed; pedicel about as long as and a little narrower than 

 joint three; joints three, four, and five subequal, a little longer than 

 thick, and slightly thicker than following joints which are distinctly 



