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Show 792 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD-REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, and abdomen polished, impunctate; mesonotum opaque, strigoso-scabrous, sericeous; first abdominal segment above and the second at the suture striated; antennae, except last 5 joints, and the legs, including all coxae, brownish yellow or yellow; mandibles yellow. Head broadly transverse, fully 3 times as wide as thick antero-posteriorly, the face and frons convex, but with an impression above the insertion of antennae and connected with the front ocellus by a median grooved line ; antennae 11-jointed, not quite so long as the body, the flagellum with the pedicel scarcely 1| times as long as the scape; pedicel and first funicular joint lengthened, the latter a little longer, 3 times as long as thick, the second funicular joint a little shorter than the pedicel, the third transverse, moniliform, the fourth transverse, a little wider than the third and in all probability forming the first joint of the club; the following joints, or the club, black, all the joints of which, except the last which is conical, are transverse-quadrate; tegulae rufo-piceous ; wings hyaline, ciliated, the venation yellowish, the marginal vein about half the length of the stigmal; mesopleura with a smooth channel extending from beneath tegula to the middle coxae, the ridge separating them from the metapleura bounded by a single row of punctures. Abdomen about as long as the thorax, but narrower and narrowed towards base, depressed, truncate at apex, the second segment scarcely longer than wide at apex. Chantilly Estate, Balthazar, and Mount Gay Estate. Described from eight female specimens. (2) TELENOMUS LONGICLAVATUS, sp. n. 2. Length 1 m m . Black, shining; head, except some fine reticulations on the vertex, the scutellum and the abdomen polished, impunctate; mesonotum opaque, finely rugose, sericeous ; first abdominal segment not striated ; scape, pedicel, mandibles, and legs brownish yellow. Head broadly transverse, a little more than 3 times as wide as thick antero-posteriorly ; antennae 11-jointed, the flagellum twice as long as scape, the first funicular joint one-third longer than pedicel, the second a little shorter but still longer than the pedicel, the third nearly twice as long as thick, the fourth as long as thick ; club 5-jointed, the first joint a little longer than thick, but not quite so wide as the following, joints 2, 4 and 5 quadrate, the last oblong. Wings hyaline, pubescent, the venation pale or yellowish, the marginal vein about one-third the length of the stigmal. Balthazar. Described from one female specimen. Distinguished from T. grenadensis by the different sculpture of the mesonotum, longer flagellum, and the relative length of the joints. (3) TELENOMUS CONNECTANS, sp. n. 2. Length 0*8 to 1 mm. Polished black, the mesonotum |
