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Described from a single specimen reared from pentatomid 

 ■eggs in forest, April 13. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Nelson, near Cairns (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1419, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 "tagmounted, plus a slide bearing antennae and forewings. 



Telenomus ophion, sp. nov. 



9- Coal-black; legs (excluding coxae) and antennal scapo 

 golden-yellow. Antennae with scape equal to next four joints 

 combined : pedicel twice as long as wide ; first funicle-joint 

 as long s the pedicel : others gradually diminishing in length ; 

 fourth Avider than long; club 5-jointed, first joint small, first 

 and second wider than long, 3-5 longer than wide. Fore- 

 wings extending well beyond tip of abdomen : broad ; hyaline ; 

 marginal cilia rather long, longest equal to one-fifth greatest 

 wing width ; discal cilia moderately fine, in about thirty 

 rows ; submarginal vein attaining the costa before the middle 

 of the wing ; marginal vein one-third as long as the rather 

 long stigmal vein ; postmarginal vein twice as long as the 

 stigmal. Abdomen with first and part of second segment 

 striate. Length, 1 mm. 



(S . Antennae 12-jointed, the scape yellow; pedicel short 

 and stout : first and second funicle- joints subequal, twice as 

 long as wide, longer than pedicel ; third a little shorter : 4-9 

 subequal, monilif orm ; last funicle-joint as long as first and 

 second. 



Described from a specimen of each sex bred from pentato- 

 mid eggs. May, 1912 (A. A. Girault). Also male on edge of 

 jungle, Kuranda, May IS, 1913 (A.P. Dodd). 



Bah. — North Queensland: Nelson, near Cairns. 



Tj/pe. — I. 1420, South Australian Museum. A slide bear- 

 ing male and female head, antennae, and forewings, plus a 

 male tagmounted. 



TeLENOML'S ORESTES, Sp. UOV. 



o . Coal-black ; coxae, trochanters, and femora brown ; 

 tibiae and tarsi j^ellow : antennae fuscous. Antennae 12-jointed ; 

 pedicel rather short, a little longer than wide ; first funicle- 

 joint as long as pedicel : funicle-joints 2-9 subequal, shorter 

 than first, a little wider than long : last joint a little longer 

 than pedicel. Forewings much as in ojjhion: submarginal vein 

 attaining the costa about the middle of the wing; marginal 

 vein as long as the stigmal, which is rather short ; postmarginal 

 vein almost three times as long as the stigmal ; venation brown ; 

 marginal cilia moderately short : discal cilia in about twenty- 

 iive rows. Length, 1 mm. 



