XXXIV MONTHLY PROCEEDINGS 



costal vein and stigma brownish ; legs and coxae yellowish, posterior coxse bluish, 

 tarsi paler. 



Described from numerous specimens bred from the cynipidous black- 

 berry gall Diastrophus itebulosus Osten Sacken. 



Calliinoine ele$;aiiti!>>siiiia u. sp. — 9-— Liength .19: ovip. .20 inch. 

 Head and thorax a brilliant gold : head transverse, very short, ocelli prominent, 

 brown; eyes prominent bright red; mouth and surroundings black, face covered 

 with short whitish pubescence with a few on cheeks; antennte black; thorax very 

 coarsely punctate ; collare transverse, narrowed in front and not so coarsely punc- 

 tate as mesothorax and sparsely covered with short whitish pubescence, parapsidal 

 grooves distinct, triangular pieces at base of scutellum, and scutellum coarsely 

 punctate and covered sparsely with wjiitish pubescence, the small pieces on either 

 side of the triangular pieces situated at base of wings smooth and purplish ; side 

 pieces beneath the wing metallic-blue; abdomen ovate, compressed, smooth and 

 shining, of a greenish-golden color, a large metallic-blue dorsal blotch, tip of 

 abdomen and venter metallic-blue: wings hyaline, veins slightly yellowish; 

 legs brown, tarsi jialer, posterior femora metallic-blue and punctate, ungues 

 dark brown. 



Described from one $ bred from cynipidous oak gall C. q. Jicus 

 Fitch ?. A very brilliant species. 



Callinionie vir(>ntis n. sp. — 9-~I^6ngth .14, ovip. .05 inch. Head and 

 thorax bright metallic-green. Head transverse, finely shallowly jDunctate, with 

 purplish and violet reflections; ocelli prominent, brown ; eyes brown, face sparsely 

 pubescent, mouth parts brown ; antennas dark brown, scape reddish or brown ; 

 thorax very finely punctate, with coarser punctures scattered over it ; prffiseutelhim 

 violaceous, parapsides tinged with same; scutellum greenish-golden, punctate; 

 metathorax purjjlish, beneath the wings smooth and purplish ; abdomen smooth, 

 shining, metallic-green, first segment above bluish-pui-ple, ovipositor black, venter 

 ])urplish ; wings hyaline, veins yellowish: legs yellowish-red. tai'si yellowish, 

 hind coxae purplish, ungues brown. 



Described from several specimens raised from the cynipidous oak gall 

 C. q. virens Ashmead. 



The following species does not belong to this group, but I insert it 

 here, on account of the interest attached to it, being probably the first 

 discovered in this country. 



Chip<»eerus floridaniis n. sp.— 9-— Lt^ngth .10 inch. Black. Head and 

 thorax inicroscopieally confiuently punctate; antennte 12-jointed, long, filiform, 

 rather widely apart, scape long, joints of flagellum short, a little longer than broad 

 and finely pubescent, last joint longer than penultimate: collare not visible from 

 above : parapsidal grooves distinct ; pra^seutellum divided by a central longitudinal 

 groove : scutellum oval, microscopically punctate : wings liyaline, iridescent, costal 

 edge brown ending in a dark brown semicircular stigma, with a i-ather long slightJy 

 curved stigmal vein springing out from lower hinder margin, and extending to 

 about half the distance to outer edge of wing; legs red-brown; abdomen long, 

 iivate. black and highly polished, with a few wliitish hairs converging around anus. 



% .—Length .OS inch. Head and tliorax above brown-black somewhat shining 

 and microscopically rugoso-punctate: eyes prominent, brown ; antennas 10-j(jinted, 



