276 lUirwis State Lahoratory of Natural History. 



should now be relegated to Phanurus; while Thomson, 

 in his definition of Telenomus, has included species that 

 really belong to the genus Hadronotus Forster. 



These errors probably induced Dr. Mayr to reject the 

 validity of Phanurus in his work cited above. 



It is interesting to note here that Phxinurus {Telenomus) 

 tabani Mayr, has habits similar to our own, the species 

 having been bred by Dr. Frederick Brauer from a Euro- 

 pean horse-fly, Tabanus sp. 



Our species, although evidently related, is somewhat 

 larger in the female sex, smoother, with the joints of 

 the antennae and the segments of the abdomen relatively 

 different, while our male is much smaller, differently 

 colored, and with the antenual joints totally dissimilar. 



Dr. Mayr's species approaches nearest to Telenomus 

 larids Hal., figured in the Entomological Magazine, Vol. 

 III., Plate XIU., Fig. 2, with which he makes comparison; 

 while our species agrees more nearly with Telenom/us 

 ■othus, Hal., represented on the same plate in Fig. 4. 



Family BRACONIDiE. 

 Clinocentrus Haliday. 

 "Clmocentrus niger, sp. n. [Fig. 14.] 



d*. — Length 1.85 to 2 mm. Black, subopaque, sha- 

 greened, except the apical third of abdomen, which is 

 smooth and shining; mandibles rufous, palpi whitish; 

 antennae 25-jointed, longer than the body, black, except 

 a small honey-yellow annulus at base of third joint and 

 the apex of the pedicel or second joint; all coxae and 

 trochanters brownish yellow, the femora reddish and 

 gradually becoming fuscous toward tips; all tibiae and 

 tarsi black or blackish fuscous ; wings subfuliginous, 

 the stigma and veins dark fuscous, almost black. 



The head is transverse, shagreened, with only the 

 occipital orbits smooth and shining; the occiput is 

 acutely margined ; the metathorax is rugulose, with a 

 median carina; the first and second abdominal segments 

 are shagreened or granulated and opaque, the second 



