350 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., '14 



A New Proctotrypoid Egg-parasite from the 



West Indies (Hym.). 



By Alan P. Dodd, Nelson, via Cairns, Queensland. 



Family SCELIONIDAE, Sub-family Texenominae. 



Genus Phanurus Thomson. 



Phanurus flavus sp. nov. 



9 . Length, 0.80 mm. Golden yellow, the eyes and ocelli black. 



Head transverse quadrate, scarcely as wide as the thorax. Thorax 

 one-half longer than wide; mesonotum finely polygonally sculptured, 

 without furrows. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax united ; 

 much narrower than the thorax, pointed ovate, twice as long as wide, 

 second segment occupying almost the entire length ; first and base of 

 second segment striate. 



Antennae ii-jointed; scape slender, equal to next four joints com- 

 bined; pedicel slender, twice as long as wide; first funicle joint much 

 narrower than the pedicel, scarcely longer than wide; second and 

 third subequal, a little longer than the first; fourth very small; club 

 5-jointed, joints i — 4 quadrate, first joint small. 



Forewings extending well beyond tip of abdomen, moderately nar- 

 row, hyaline, longest marginal cilia equal to one-half greatest wing 

 width; discal cilia fine, moderately dense, arranged in about 20 rows; 

 submarginal vein attaining the costa at about two-fifths wing length; 

 marginal vein one-half as long as the stigmal, which is moderately 

 long, rather oblique; postmarginal vein twice as long as the stigmal. 



$. Antennae 12-jointed, filiform, funicle joints 1-3 slender, sub- 

 equal, twice as long as wide; 4-9 subequal, scarcely longer than 

 wide; last joint as long as the pedicel. 



(From several specimens, two-thirds inch objective, i inch optic, . 

 Bausch and Lomb). 



Described from several specimens of each sex, on two slides, 

 received from Dr. L. O. Howard, and labeled "360-1912. Bred 

 from eggs of Ormenis sp. collected 19th Apr., '12. Rio Pedras, 

 P. R. Thos. H. Jones." The host is a Fulgorid, and I know 

 of no other Tclcnomid reared from leafhopper eggs. 



Habitat. — West Indies (Rio Pedras, Porto Rico). 



Types. — United States National Museum, No. 16364, 3 

 males, 2 females on a slide. 



