152 BULLETIN 45, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



moiiiliform, the hist coue-sUaped, twice as loug as the penultimate; legs 

 pale brownish yellow, the coxa^ black. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia. 



Types in National Museum. 



Described froui several specimens reared by Dr. Kiley, from the eggs 

 of 8pilosoma virginica Fabr. 



Telenomus minimus, sp. nov. 



5 . Length, O.G™"". Black, shining, pubescent, the dorsum of thorax 

 flattened, the pedicel at apex and the two last funiclar joints, trochan- 

 ters, knees, and tarsi, yellowish, restof thelegs pale brownish. The head 

 is twice as wide as long, or very slightly wider, highly polished, face 

 convex, eyes pubescent. Mandibles and throat brownish-yellow. An- 

 tennae 11-jointed, the pedicel more than twice as long as the first funiclar 

 joint, the latter not longer than thick, the three following joints exceed- 

 ingly short, transverse, the last the smallest, the first joint of club short, 

 crescent-shaped, the second semicircular, the third and fourth quadrate, 

 the last ovate. Wings hyaline, pubescent, the venation pale brown, the 

 marginal vein about half the length of the stigmal. Abdomen scarcely 

 larger than the thorax, polished black, witliout stria? at base, the 

 second segment not as long as wide, the third about one-third the length 

 of the second, the following very short. 



Habitat. — Arlington, Va. 



Type in Coll. Ashmead. 



Telenomus heliothidis, sp. nov. 



$ . Length, 0.6'""'. Black, smooth, impunctured. Head large, much 

 wider than the thorax. Eyes notpubescent. Antenna} 11 jointed, dark 

 brown, the flagellum twice as loug as the scape, the pedicel stout and 

 as long as the first and second funiclar joints together, the first funiclar 

 joint scarcely longer than thick, the second, third and fourth about 

 equal, not longer than thick, the fifth larger, moniliform, club 4-jointed, 

 the seccmd and third joints quadrate, the last conic. Thorax very 

 faintly pubescent, almost bare. Wings hyaline, with a long fringe. 

 Legs dark brown, the tarsi pale. Abdomen not longer than the thorax, 

 broadly truncate behind, the first segment exceedinJy short. 



Habitat. — Shreveport, La. 



Type in National Museum. 



Described from one 9 specimen, reared in January, 1891, by Mr. F. W« 

 Mally, from the eggs of Heliothis armUjcra. 



Telenomus orgyiae Fitsh. 



TeJenowiua or^i/ifK Fitch, Eighth N. Y. Rep., p. 197. - — 



Teleaa orgyia' Ashiu., Ent. Am., iii, p. 100. 



S 9. Length, 0.8""". Black, shining; the thorax microscopically 

 punctate, with a fine sericeous down ; the head a little more than 3 times 



