154 BULLETIN 45, UNITED .STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Telenomus infuscatipes Aslim. 



Telean infuacatipea Ashm., Ent. Aiu., iii, p. 100; $ ^ . 



$ 9. Leugfh, 0.8""". Polished black; the thorax finely pubescent ; 

 the head thrice as wide as long, the face Aery convex; eyes bare; an- 

 tenuiTB brown-black, the scape pale at base; legs brown, the cox.tb and 

 middle of femora and tibiae dusky; mandibles rufous. Antennie 9 11- 

 jointed, the flagellum one and a half times as long as the scape, the 

 pedicel twice as large as the first funiclar joint, the second and third 

 fun iclar joints moniliform, a little transverse, the fourth very small, 

 transverse; the first joint of club very short, crescent- shaped, thrice 

 as wide as the last joint of the funicle; the second, third, ami fourth 

 joints very wide, transverse-quadrate, twice as wide as long, the last 

 ovate. Wings hyaline, pubescent, the venation yellowish-brown, the 

 nmrginal vein about half the length of the stigmal. Abdomen not 

 longer or wider than the thorax, the first segment striate, the second 

 a little wider than long. 



In the $ the antenn:e are 12-jointed, long, filiform, the first funiclar 

 ioint iucrassated. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from one $ and two 9 specimens. The $ of this species is 

 now destroyed, but it should be recognized again if rediscovered by the 

 incrassated first joint of the funicle. 



Telenomus bifidus Kiley. 



Rep. IT. S. Dept. Agric. 1886, p. 531, S 9 ; Cress. Syn. Hyin., p. 248. 



$ 9 . Length, ().(>""". Black, shining, the thorax microscopically 

 punctulate and covered with a fine white pubescence. Head as broad 

 as the widest part of the thorax, highly polished, impunctured. Eyes 

 almost bare. Mandibles brown. Antenna? 9 11-jointed, the scape black, 

 the flagellum brown-black, the pedicel brownish-yellow, distinctly longer 

 and stouter than the first funiclar joint, the second and third funiclar 

 joints equal, moniliform, the first joint of the club small, transverse, the 

 second longer, the third and fourth transverse-quadrate, the last cone- 

 shaped. Legs honey -yellow, the femora slightly obfuscated, the coxib 

 black. Wings hyaline, fringed, the venation yellowish, the marginal 

 vein nearly half the length of the stigmal. Abdomen slightly shorter 

 than the thorax, polished, the first segment slightly wider than long- 



In the $ the antenuai are 12-jointed, filiform, and of a uniform pale 

 brownish-yellow, the pedicel scarcely longer than the first funiclar joint, 

 the first and sec(md funiclar joints jiearly etjual in length, the third 

 slightly shorter, the joints beyond round, or moniliform, the last conic 

 a little less than twice as long as the penultimate; legs pale yellow. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia. 



Types in National Museum. 



