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as wide as thick smtcio posteriorly, the face highly polished, the eyes 

 pubescent; thorax highly convex; legs black or piceous-brown, the 

 trochanters, knees, tips of tibiiB, and tarsi, pale or yellowish ; in male 

 always pale. 



Antenn;t3 in 9 11-jointed, black; pedicel longer than the first funiclar 

 joint, pale at ti^); second and third funiclar joints, moniliforni, the sec- 

 ond slightly the larger, third very small ; in $ 12-jointed, filiform, hairy, 

 brown; first three funiclar joints almost equal in length, about twice as 

 long as the pedicel, the first the stoutest, the third a little curved; re- 

 maining joints, exceiJt the last, moniliform, loosely joined, the last conic. 

 Wings hyaline, fringed, the venation pale brown, the marginal vein 

 about one-third as long as the stigmal. 



Abdomen oval, about as long as the thorax, bhick and highly polished, 

 the first and second segments without striie. 



Habitat. — New York and Ottawa, Canada. 



Specimens in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from several specimens, in both sexes, bred by Mr. W. 

 H. Harrington from eggs Orgyia sp. at Ottawa. 



Telenomus ichthyurae, sp. i-.ov. 



^ 9 . Length, 5.0'""'. Black, shining, impunctured, the thorax 

 covered with a fine microscopic pubescence. Head very wide, wider 

 than the widest part of the thorax, the face convex, polished. Mandi- 

 bles piceous. Antennte -in 9 11-jointed, black, the flagellum one and 

 a half times as long as the scape, the pedicel much longer than the 

 first funiclar joint, the latter only a little longer than thick, the second 

 and third joints equal, moniliform, the fourth still smaller, the joints 2, 

 3 and 1 of club, quadrate, the last short, conic. Thorax high, convex. 

 Legs piceous-brown, coxai black, trochanters, knees, base, and apex 

 of tibiai and the tarsi honey-yellow. Abdomen not as long as the 

 1|jorax, broadly truncate posteriorly, polished, the first segment trans- 

 verse, thrice as wide as long, the second much wider than long and 

 occupying most of the surface, the remaining segments scarcely visi- 

 ble, more or less retracted within the second. Wings hyaline, fringed, 

 the venation pale; the marginal vein is very short, punctiform, the 

 stigmal oblique, nearly four times the length of marginal. 



In the $ the antennfe are filiform, 12-jointed, jiale brown, the pedicel 

 slightly longer than the ffrst funiclar joint, the second and third stouter 

 and longer than the first, about equal in length, the joints beyond to 

 the last distinctly transverse, the last conic; the legs, except the black 

 coxsv, are pale brownish-yellow. 



Habitat. — Washington, D. C. 



Types in National Museum. — ^ ^ — -— ,. — .^ __.... -__, 



Described from many specimens, in both sexes, reared by Dr, Kiley 

 from the eggs of Ichthyura inclusa Hiiba. 



