MONOGRAPH OP THE NORTH AMERICAN PROCTOTRYPID^. 155 



The species was reared by Dr. Kiley, July 27, 188(}, from the egps of 

 Hyphantria textor Harris. 



TelenomuB macullpennls, np. nov. 



9 . Length, O.fi""". Polished black, impunctured, the first segment 

 and the second, for half its length, s ite; tarsi whitish. 



Head transverse, very little more tl . twice as wide as thick antero- 

 posteriorly. Eyes bare. Antenna* 11-jointed, the scape short, less than 

 half the length of the Hagellum, the pedicel large and much stouter than 

 the funiclar Joints, as longas the first and second funi<'lar joints together, 

 pale at apex, first and second funiclar Joints equal, scarcely longer than 

 thick, the third and fourth still smaller, minute, moniliform; club fusi- 

 form, longer thau the scape, the first Joint transverse, the second a little 

 wider and longer, the third still wider, quadrate, the fourth a little nar- 

 rower, quadrate, the last conic. Thorax subconvex. Wings hyaline, 

 ciliated, with a dusky baud across the middle below the marginal vein ; 

 the stigmal vein snort, with a spurious vein extending into the middle 

 of the wing from the knob; marginal v^ein about as long as the stigmal. 

 Abdomen about as long as the head and thorax together, the seeond 

 segment a little hmger than wide, with the basal half very finely, longi- 

 tudinally striated. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Type 9 in Coll. Ashmead. 



Described from a single spetnmen captured while sweeping. 

 The banded wings and the short stigmal vein, with a branch or uncus, 

 from its tip, readily distinguish the species. 



Telenomus sphingis Aslim. 



(Plate VII, Fig. 7, 9.) 



Teleaa Dphingis Ashm., Bull. No. 14, Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric, p. 18; Ent. Am. 

 Ill, p. 100; Cress. Syn. Hym., p. 313. 



$ 9 . Length, 0.S5 to 1""". Black, shining, the thorax very faintly 

 microscopically punctate, finely pubescent; antennrB brown to dark 

 brown, the scape rarely entirely black, usually pale benea*^'' or ^^ i>ase 

 and apex; legs pale brown, or brownish-yellow, the coxje black, the fem- 

 ora and tibite more or less embrowned. Head thrice as wide as long; 

 the eyes pubescent, the mandibles piceous or brown. Antennae 9 11- 

 Jointed, the pedicel longer and stouter than the first funiclar joint, yel- 

 low at tip, the latter scarcely longer than thick, second and third joints 

 not longer than thick, the fourth short, transverse, a little wider than the 

 third, the club about as long as the funicle and pedicel united, the first 

 joint transverse not so wide as the second, the second, third, and fourth, 

 quadrate, the last conic. Wings hyaline, ciliated, the venation pale 

 brownish or yellowish, the marginal vein a little longer thau half the 

 length of the stigmal. Abdomen black, polished, not longer than the 

 thorax, truncate at apex, the first segment and the suture betweeu the 



