DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA, NO. 4. 



By J. C. Crawford, 



Associate Curator, Division of Insects, United States National Museum. 



Many of the new species described in this paper are from a collec- 

 tion sent for determination by ^Ir. L. C. Coleman, entomologist to 

 the Government of ^lysore, India. The microhjmienoptera of that 

 region are practically unkno^vn and most of the species sent by Mr. 

 Coleman are new. 



Superfamily PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. 



TELENOMUS COMPEREI, new species. 



Female. — ^Length, about 0.9 mm. Black, legs fulvous, coxje black; 

 scape and. pedicel about the color of the legs, rest of antennae dark 

 brown; articulating joint at base of scape long, black; first joint of 

 flagellum slightly longer than pedicel, the pedicel elongate: face 

 finely rugulose, lower part of face finely, closely punctured; head 

 tliin anterio-posteriorly, slightlj'' wider than thorax; mesoscutum and 

 scutellum rather coareely reticulately rugulose; scutellum at apex 

 with a single row of pits; metanotum covered by a single row of pits 

 coarser than those on scutellum; first segment of abdomen at base 

 with a row of pits, back of these, rugulae, reaching to apex of segment ; 

 second segment about twice as wide as long, basally with a row of 

 pits and back of tliis (except laterad) rugulae reaching almost to apex 

 of segment ; following sograents only showing slightly. 



Male. — Length, about 0.9 mm. Similar to the female, pechcel short, 

 antennae fulvous (the apical joints missing). 



Ilahifat. — Canton, China. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14338, U.S.N.M. 



Seven females and one male reared from the eggs of an imknown 

 hemipteron b}" Mr. George Compere, after whom it is named. 



The coarse sculpture of the mesonotum distinguishes this species 

 from the other species of the genus described from the Orient. 



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