MONOGRAPH OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PKOCTOTRYPID.E. 159 



fuDiclar joint, the joints after the third nioniliform, the last conic ; legs, 

 including coxa?, honey-yellow. 



Habitat. — St. Louis, Mo. 



Types in National Museum. 



Described from specimens reared from eggs of Podisus spinosus Dall., 

 June 9, 1879. 



Telenomus chrysopae, sp. uov. 



S . Length, O.G""". Black, shining, the thorax microvscopically 

 punctate, with a fine down. Head transverse, thrice as wide as long. 

 Eyes with a few hairs. Mandibles brown. Antenuic 11-joiuted, brown, 

 the pedicel hardly as long as the first funiclar joint, the second and 

 third funiclar joints about equal, longer than the first, the joints beyond 

 to last oval-moniliform, slightly pedicellate, the last conic, about twice 

 as long as the penultimate. Legs dark fuscous or brown, the coxaj 

 black or blackish, the trochanters, knees and tarsi, pale. Abdomen 

 not as long as the thorax, spatulate, smooth, polished, without strijie, 

 the second segment not longer than its width at apex. Wings hyaline, 

 fringed, the venation pale brown, the marginal vein about half the 

 length of the stigmal. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia. 



Types in National Museum. 



Described from 4 S specimens, reared from the eggs of Chrysopa 

 sp. in July. 



Telenomus ccBlodasidis, sp. nov. 



S . Length, 0.8""". Black, shining, the thorax A'ery faintly, micro- 

 scopically punctate, with a fine, white pubescence. Head transverse, a 

 little broader than the thorax, the vertex exhibiting a faint, shagreened 

 punctuation, the face smooth, highly polished. Eyes pubescent. Man- 

 dibles pale brown, or yellowish. Antennae 12-jointed, brown, the fla- 

 gellura, fully as long as the body, very bristly, the pedicel very small, 

 rounded, not lialf the length of the first funiclar joint, the first tliree 

 funiclar joints stout and long, the first, much shorter than the second, 

 the third, a little shorter than the second, the joints beyond oval-monil- 

 iform, the last cone-shaped, twice as long as the penultimate. Legs 

 piceons, the coxa", black, trochanters, knees, anterior tibite, and tips of 

 the others and all the tarsi, honey-yellow. Wings hyaline, fringed, 

 the venation pale yellowish, the marginal vein about half the lengtli 

 of the shaft of the stigmal. Abdomen scarcely as long as the thorax, 

 polished, the first segment and the second at base, striate, the latter 

 wider at apex than long. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



Tyi^es in National Museum. 



Described from 2 specimens reared August 31, 1882, from the eggs 

 of Ccelodasys lej^tino'uUs Grrote. 



