No. 487] 



A NEW SPECIES OF TELENOMUS 



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Description and Rfxords of Breeding and Collection. 



This parasite having been pronounced a new species of the 

 genus Telenomus by Dr. W. H. Ashmead, the writer takes pleasure 

 in dedicating it to this eminent authority on the parasitic Ily- 

 menoptera who has described more than 500 North Anieric an 

 representatives of the family Proctotry{)ida\ 



Telenomus asJmeadi, Sp. 9 (Fig. 1, h). Length 1. OS- 1.15 

 mm. Black with fine pale pul)escencc. 



Head.— Width, .50 mm., scarcely wider than thorax, marked 

 with impressed reticulations; mandibles black. Antemuv clothed 

 with pale pubescence, dark brown to blackish in color, except 

 pedicel the color of which gradually changes to light brown at 

 distal end. Proportionate dimensions of antenna! segments (Fig. 

 2, B) are as follows:^ 



Scajje Pedicel Segments of Flagellum 



: : 1 2 S 4 6 6 7 8 9 1-9 

 Length 105 2S 80 18 12 11 17 15 15 16 20 124 

 Greatest width 10 12 11 11 13 15 18 18 17 16 13 



Thora.r. — "Width .55 mm., length .48 mm. Dorsum marked 

 with impressed rctu illations, pubescent; mesoscutum rather 

 roughly longitudinally grooved posteriorly; scutellum smooth 

 and shining with a few pale hairs arising from minute j)unctures. 

 I>egs clothed with moderately dense pale pubescence; coxa> 

 black; trochanters, tibire and tarsa^ light brown by reflected 

 light, yellowish brown by transmitted light; tarsal segments 

 successively darker to the last; femora dark brown or brownish 

 black by reflected light, dark brown by transmitted light. Pro- 

 portionate length of segments ot hind tars;r not mcliKhng tarsal 

 daws, as follows:" I, ,\ !, ,. hvahnc. iridescent; 



venation brownish; length ot tore wini: I nmi.. urcatcst width, 

 .46 mm. 



Abdomen. — Lengtli .5.)2 nini.. wichh .51s nmi.; basal two 

 thirds of first segment striate above; ba>al two tlnids ot second 



