ClRAULT—Tll'O NEW SPECIES OF TELENOMUS 
65 
1906] 
2. Telenomus perplexus species novem. 
Female. — 
Shining black, length, i.i8mm. ; legs, excepting anterior coxae, yellowish 
brown; pedicel concolorons with scape, darker basally. 
Head slightly wider than thorax, polished, shagreened along the inner 
margins of the eyes and on vertex. Eyes and ocelli normal, the former naked. 
Thorax slightly longer than the abdomen ; mesothorax minutely punctate, 
pubescent. 
Abdomen short, subcuneate (dorsal aspect), the anal segment truncate; the 
second segment slightly longer than wide; first and second segments, at base, 
strongly, longitudinally striate; remaining segments polished. Wings hyaline, 
venation pale yellowish. 
Antennae ii-jointed. Scape long, longer than the next three joints com- 
bined. Pedicel ecjual to, or slightly shorter than, the first funicle joint, but 
thicker; ovate. Joint i of funicle cylindrical, much longer than the following 
joints, twice the length of joint 3 of the funicle ; funicle joints 2, 3 and 4 
subeqeual, 3 and 4 equal, 2 slightly longer, all moniliform. Club 5-jointed, 
its basal joint transverse, about equal in length to joint 4 of the funicle, or 
slightly longer; club joints 2, 3 and 4 subequal, varying slightly in width, 3 
the widest, all much wider than the other antennal joints ; the distal antennal 
joint, or club joint 5, conic, acute, about as long as each of the three preceding 
joints of the club. 
From two specimens. 
Male.— 
The same. Length, 1.15mm. Antennae 12- jointed. Scape paler yellow; 
antennal joints 2, 3 and 4 with some yellow. 
Scape short, about as long as pedicel and first funicle joint combined. Pedicel 
short, subcuneate, about half the length of the first funicle joint. The latter 
cylindrical, equal to, or slightly longer than, joint 2 of the funicle ; funicle 
joint 3 thicker and shorter ; funicle joints 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 moniliform, equal, 
much shorter than joint 3 of funicle, and less than half as long as funicle joint. 
1. The club pointed cylindrical, nearly twice longer than the joints immediately 
preceding, and about equal to joint 3 of the funicle in length. 
