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tbe frons convex, smooth. Palpi pale. Antennse 11-jointed ; 

 scape about oue third the length of the flagellum ; flagellum sub- 

 clavate, gradually incrassated towards tip; pedicel longer and 

 stouter than tbe first flagellar joint, its apical margin white ; 

 first flagellar joint a little longer than thick, the following sub- 

 moniliform, the three or four preceding the ultimate transverse, 

 the last ovate. Thorax oblong-oval, feebly punctate, very finely 

 sericeous. Mesopleurse with a smooth femoral furrow. Wings 

 hyaline, pubescent, with rather long cilia at margins ; venation 

 pale brown, the marginal vein about half the length of the 

 stigmal. Abdomen subfusiform, pointed, polisbed black, a little 

 longer than the head and thorax together, the basal segment 

 small, transverse, smooth, without striae, the second very long, 

 the following very short. 



Hob. St. Vincent. 



Described from two female specimens. 



Comes nearest to P. ovivorus, Ashm., but that species is highly 

 polished, impunctured, with more slender antennae. 



Telenomus, Haliday. 



This genus, comprising the smallest species, and probably 

 furnishing the greatest number of species in any one genus in 

 the Scelionince, is well represented in the collection. 



The following table will materially aid in determining the 

 species : — 



Tahle of Species. 



Females. 



Pedicel not longer than the first funicle-joint . 5. 



Pedicel longer than the first funicle-joint. 

 Head broadly transverse, much wider than 



thorax 2. 



Head quadrate, not or scarcely wider than 

 thorax. 

 Black. 



Coxae pale or yellow. 

 Legs pale yellow. 

 Thorax microscopically punctate ; 

 scape fuscous ; second abdominal 

 segment twice as long as wide . T, confusus, sp. n. 

 Legs brownish yellow ; second abdo- 

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