1896 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Table of Species. 



Male abdomen only three-fourths as long as thorax ....graptae. 



Male abdomen nearly or quite as long as thorax rileyi. 



Telenomus graptae sp. nov. PL 89, fig. 9. 



Male. — The nine funicle joints of the antennae are beaded and well separated, 

 all joints subequal in width, joints 4 to 9 nearly as broad as long, joint 2 longest, 

 joints 1 and 3 subequal, both shorter than 2, and longer than 4 to 9; club shorter 

 than two preceding joints together, conical, sharply pointed. Thorax much 

 arched and very finely pilose. Abdomen three-fourths as long as thorax. Color dark 

 brown, nearly black, the abdomen darker than head or thorax; antennae uniform dark 

 brown ; all coxae and femora dark brown ; front tibiae light brown, middle and hind 

 tibiae dark brown; all tarsi dark honey-yellow; wing veins brown, well marked. 

 Length, .875 mm. ; expanse, 2.3 mm. 



Female. — Differs from male only in antennae, in which the last three flagellar joints 

 form a large club, the three joints well separated, and the last slightly obliquely trun- 

 cate. From the basal joint of the club the funicle joints taper down in size for three 

 joints. 



Described from one male and one female. The male was reared by 

 Mr. Scudder from an egg of Polygonia progne, and the female was cap- 

 tm-ed June 15, by Mr. C. W. Wood worth on the White Mountains while 

 in the act of ovipositing in an egg of Euvanessa antiojja. Both specimens 

 are poorly mounted in balsam, and the characters are difficult to observe. 

 Mr. Scudder has also sent a slide containing a single female Telenomus, 

 which I hesitate, on account of its poor condition, to separate from this 

 species. It was reared from an egg of Heodes hypophlaeas. 



Since this description was written I have received another female from 

 Mr. Scudder, which I cannot separate from this species and which was 

 reared from the egg of Limochares taumas collected at Nepigon by Mr. 

 Scudder in the summer of 1888. A single female was also reared from 

 an egg of Polygonia interrogationis at Washington, August 6, 1887. 



Telenomus rileyi sp. nov. 



Male. — Proportions of funicle joints much as in graptae; club more oval and less 

 acutely pointed ; joints 1 and 2 of funicle much more constricted at base than at apex. 

 Thorax somewhat less highly arched than in graptae. Abdomen nearly or quite as 

 long as thorax. Pile of thorax not distinguishable under a moderate power. Color 

 black, abdomen highly polished ; scape and pedicel of antennae bright honey-yellow; 

 joints of funicle yellow below, dusky above, last three joints (club) dark brown ; all 

 legs, including coxae, bright yellow, verging upon orange. Wing veins faint, dusky. 

 Length, .72 mm. ; expanse, 1.8 mm. 



Described from three males reared by Professor Riley from eggs of 

 Chlorippe clyton in Missouri. 



