372 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXVI. 
g. Telenomus texanus sp. nov. 
Female. Length 1 mm. Black, shining, smooth, except thorax, which 
is very finely punctured. Antenne piceous, lighter at base and apex of 
scape and apex of pedicel. Mandibles yellowish at tips. Head but little 
more than twice as wide as long antero-posteriorly, sparsely white pubescent. 
Face shining, smooth, vertex distinctly reticulate with fine impressed lines, 
reticulation extending down for some distance along the inner border of the 
eye. Front ocellus in a depression, lateral ones contiguous with eye margin. 
Eyes black, sparsely covered with short white hairs. Antennz eleven-jointed; 
pedicel one and one-half times as long as first flagellar joint, which is nearly 
twice as long as thick ; second and third thicker, but of same length as first ; 
fourth small, transversely oval ; fifth larger, transverse ; three basal joints 
of club nearly equal, subquadrate ; last joint conical. Thorax as wide as 
head, more thickly and finely hairy, and not so shining. It is also reticulate, 
but less noticeably than the head. Wings fusco-hyaline, marginal vein 
three-fourths as long as stigmal, wing margins strongly fringed. Abdomen 
very shining, slightly longer than thorax ; second segment about as wide 
as long; the apical three segments. fringed with fine white bristles. Legs 
and coxe deep yellow; hind femora infuscated on middle portion, tibia, 
also, to a less degree. Tarsi paler, except last joint, which is black. 

Described from a female specimen collected in a nest of 
Eciton cecum Latr., near Austin, Texas, during March, 1901. 
The insect was found among the ants at a distance of several 
inches below the surface of the ground. 
As all the other members of this genus are egg parasites it 
is possible that this species may be parasitic upon some guest 
of the Eciton, as is sometimes the case. 
Telenomus texanus is most closely related to 7. geometre and 
T. noctu, from either of which it is easily distinguished by the 
form of the head, antennz, and marginal vein. 
. Phaenopria acutiventris sp. nov. 
Female. Length 1 mm. Black, shining, impunctured. Antennz rufo- 
piceous, the three-jointed club piceous ; scape slender, arcuate ; pedicel 
stout, oval, equal in length to first joint of club. First joint of flagellum one 
and one-half times as long as the second, which is moniliform, third and 
following joints increasing in size, moniliform except the last, which is oval 
and as long as the two preceding taken together. Posterior margin of head 
and anterior margin of collar white pubescent. Mesonotum considerably 
‘narrowed in front, convex. Scutellum flat at base and strongly convex on 


