586 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



hind cross vein very oblique, vein at apex of anal cell nearly perpen- 

 dicular, sixth vein not prolonged beyond apex of anal cell ; legs slender, 

 destitute of bristles and of long hairs, pulvilli and empodia well developed. 

 Type the following species. 



Roederiodes juncta, sp. nov. 



Black, the coxae and femora yellow, tibiae and tarsi brown; head 

 whitish pruinose, the front and upper part of the occiput grayish black ; 

 thorax opaque ; mesonotum grayish black pruinose, an elongated spot in 

 front of the scutellum and the pleura whitish pruinose ; five pairs of 

 dorsocentral bristles, scutellum, except its extreme base, gray pruinose, 

 abdomen opaque, almost velvety; wings grayish . hyaline, unmarked; 

 length, 2.5 mm. Three female specimens, also one male without a head. 

 Collected July 29, 1900, by Prof. James G. Needham. (Plate 15, 

 figures 5-8) 



Type. Cat. no. 5345, U. S. national museum 



Habitat. Saranac Inn N. Y. 



This genus is apparently nearest related to the European genus 

 R o e d e r i a Mik, from which it differs in the absence of the stigmal 

 spot and of the long hairs near the apices of the front femora; the 

 venation also is different. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, ASSISTANT CURATOR, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Family 56 scelionidae: 

 TELENOMUS HaHday 

 Telenomus longicornis sp. nov. 

 $ Length 1.4 mm. Polished black ; the antennae are much longer 

 than the body, as in T. d o 1 i c h o c e r u s Ashm. the flagellum brown- 

 black, hairy, the first joint of same being about the length of the third, 

 the second joint very long, much longer than either the first or third, the 

 fourth a Httle shorter than the third, the following joints very impercepti- 

 bly shortening. Wings hyaline, iridescent, the veins brown, the tegulae 

 black. Legs black, the trochanters and tibial spurs pale yellowish, a dot 

 on knees testaceous, the tarsi fuscous. Abdomen normal, the first seg- 

 ment longitudinally striate, the following smooth and polished. 



Type. Cat. no. 5365, U. S. national museum 



Habitat. Saranac Inn N. Y. One specimen taken in June 1900, 

 by Prof. James G. Needham. 



