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Show 1895.] ^HYMENOPIERA OF THE* ISLAND OF GRENADA. 795 little longer than wide, all the other joints, except the last, which is conical and about twice as long as the penultimate, being moniliform. Balthazar, Grand Etang, Mount Gay Estate, and St. John's River. Described from one male and five female specimens. (10) TELENOMUS ALBITARSIS, sp. n. 2 • Length 0*65 m m . Polished black, impunctate; antennae black or brown-black; legs fuscous or black, with the trochanters, knees, and tarsi white or yellowish white ; wings hyaline, ciliated, the venation light brown, the marginal vein about one-third the length of the stigmal. Head transverse, about 3| times as wide as thick antero-posteriorly ; first funicular joint not longer than thick, the second a little shorter, the third and fourth minute, transverse, narrower than the preceding; club 5-jointed, with the joints, except the last, transverse, the last conic Abdomen shorter than the thorax, with the second segment wider than long. The male measures about 0-55 m m . long; the flagellum is filiform-moniliform, light brown, the first flagellar joint being the stoutest joint, stouter but not longer than the pedicel, all the other joints, except the last, being smaller, moniliform, while the legs are brownish. Mount Gay Estate and St. John's River. Described from one male and five female specimens. [(11) TELENOMUS FLAVIVENTRIS, sp. n. 2 • Length 0*6 m m . Head and thorax black, polished ; scape and legs yellow ; flagellum light brown ; abdomen brownish yellow; wings hyaline, ciliated, the venation pale, the marginal vein scarcely one-third the length of the stigmal. Head very wide, 3 | times as wide as thick antero-posteriorly; flagellum about 1| times as long as the scape, the first joint scarcely longer than thick and much smaller than the pedicel, second and third joints moniliform, the third slightly the smaller joint, the fourth minute, transverse, the fifth transverse, but wider and larger than the fourth; club 4-jointed, the joints, except the last, quadrate, nearly equal in size, the last conical. Abdomen truncate at apex and not longer than wide at apex, viewed from above more or less triangular, the second segment being wider than long. Hab. Kingston, Jamaica. Described from two female specimens in National Museum, received from T. D. A. Cockerell.] (12) TELENOMUS CONVERGENS, sp. n. 2. Length 0*8 m m . Polished black, impunctate ; antennae, except club, and the legs brownish yellow, rarely with the funicular joints above dusky; wings hyaline, ciliated, the venation brownish, the marginal vein not quite half the length of the stigmal. |