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Fnmt wings nither narrowed, loiigly fringed, the niargiiial vein very 

 short, the stigmal vein rather h)ng, very oblique, the post marginal long. 



Abdomen long, pointed ovate and at least as long as the head and 

 thorax together, and narrower, the ovipositor often exserted, the second 

 segment very long, occupying two-thirds the whole surface. 



Legs rather long and but slightly thickened. 



Although this genus closely resembles Tdenomiis, it is readily dis- 

 tinguished by the shape of tbe head, the subclavate antenme, narrower 

 wings, and the longer, narrower, pointed abdomen, the second segment 

 always being two or three times longer than wide. 



The habits of the genus are identical with Telenomm. 



Our species may be tabulated as follows: 



TABLE OF SBEOIES. 



Head and thorax dark hrown 2 



Black. 

 AuteuiiiP black or browu black. 



Legs brownisb-piceons, tbe kuees and tarsi pale P. ovivoRUS, sp. uov. 



Legs rufous, tbo tarsi Avliite P. fi.OUIUANIts, si), iiov. 



Scape pale riifons, the flagellum brown. 



Legs yellow P. flavipks, sp. nov. 



2. Abdomen i)ale brown P. oi'acus How. 



Phanurus ovivorus, sp. nov. 



5. Length 0.6™"'. Polished black, impunctured. Head transverse- 

 quadrate, scarcely wider than the thorax. Eyes oval, with a few hairs. 

 Antenna*. 11-jointed, subdavate, brown-black or black, the flagellum 

 nearly thrice as long as the scape, the pedicel longer than the first funic- 

 lar joint, the joints of fuuicle all longer than thick, the club scarcely 

 separable from the 4-jointed funicle, the joints a little longer than 

 wide. Thorax ovoid, the disk somewhat flattened and highly polished, 

 the mesonotum longer than wide, without furrows. Legs piceous, the 

 knees and tarsi paler. Abdomen jwinted ovate, depressed, flat above 

 and longer than the head and thorax together, the ovipositor slightly 

 projecting. Wings rather narrow, hyaline, iridescent, and ciliated, the 

 nervures yellow, the marginal vein shorter than the stigmal. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



Types in National Museum and Coll. Ashmead. 



Bred by Dr. Riley at Washington, D. C, September 10, 1885, from 

 Heteroptcrous eggs; also from Curculionid in catkins of Black Birch, 

 June 19, 1889. The last record I consider unreliable. In all probabil- 

 ity there were insect eggs in the catkins overlooketl by Dr. Riley. 

 My collection contains specimens captured at large. 



PhanxiruB floridanus, sp. nov. 

 (PL vu, Fig. 5, 9.) 



2 . Length 0.6"'"'. Polished black, impunctured. Heatl subquad- 

 rate, as wide as the thorax. Antenna) 11-jointed, clavate, black, the 



