140 BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Front wings rather narrowed, longly fringed, the marginal vein very 

 short, the stigmal vein rather h)ng, very oblique, the post-niarginallong. 



Abdomen long, pointed ovate and at least as long as the head and 

 thorax together, and narrower, the ovipositor often exserted, the second 

 segment very long, occupying two-thirds the Avhole surface. 



Legs rather long and but slightly thickened. 



Although this genus closely resembles Tdcnomus^ it is readily dis- 

 tinguished by the shape of the head, thesubclavate antenna^, narrower 

 wings, and the longer, narrower, pointed abdomen, the .second segment 

 always being two or three times longer than wide. 



The habits of the genus are identical with Telenomus. 



Our species may be tabulated as follows : 



TABLE OP SPECIES. 



Head and thorax dark l)rownA ^ ^ ^ 2 



Black. 



Anti'una> Mack or browu black. 



Legs browuish-piceous, the knees and tarsi pale P. ovivorus, sp. nov. 



Legs rufous, the tarsi white P. floridanus, sp. nov. 



Scape jialo rufous, the iiagelluni brown. 



Legs yellow P. rLAViPp:s, sp. nov. 



2. Abdomen jiale brown P. opacu.s How. 



Phanurus ovivorus, sp. nov. 



9. Length O.G™"'. Polished black, impunctured. Head transverse- 

 quadrate, scarcely wider than the thorax. Eyes oval, with a few hairs. 

 Antennne 11-jointed, subclavate, brown-black or black, the flagelkmi 

 nearly thrice as long as the scape, the pedicel longer than the first funic- 

 lar joint, the joints of fuuicle all longer than thick, the club scarcely 

 separable from the 4-jointed funicle, the joints a little longer than 

 wide. Thorax ovoid, the disk somewhat flattened and highly polished, 

 the mesonotum longer than wide, without furrows. Legs piceous, the 

 knees and tarsi paler. Abdomen i:)ointed ovate, depressed, flat above 

 and longer than the head and thorax together, the ovipositor slightly 

 projecting. Wings rather narrow, hyaline, iridescent, and ciliated, the 

 nervures yelloM^, t]ie marginal vein shorter than the stigmal. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



Types in ^N^ational Museum and Coll. Ashmead. 



Bred by Dr. Eiley at Washington, D. C, September 10, 1885, from 

 Heteropterous eggs; also from Curculionid in catkins of Black Bircb, 

 June 19, 1889. The last record I consider unreliable. In all probabil- 

 ity there were insect eggs in the catkins overlooked by Dr. Eiley. 

 My collection contains specimens captured at large. 



Phanurus floridanus, sp. nov. 

 (PI. VII, Fig. 5, 9.) 



9 , Length O.G""". Polished black, impunctured. Head subquad- 

 rate, as wide as the thorax. Antenuie 11-jointed, clavate, black, the 



