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are two small widely separated spots ; in all those from southern Cali- 

 fornia it is immaculate. The elytral spots vary much in size and 

 in the Oregon examples coalesce into a broad vitta narrowed a little 

 before the middle; the spots are sometimes dark green instead of blue. 

 Some specimens are colored nearly as in insulatiis and were once 

 somewhat generally distributed as such by Ricksecker. 



GALL-FLY PARASITES FROM CALIFORNIA. 



By David T. Fullaway, 

 Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 



While at Stanford University, in 1910, I had an opportunity to 

 study a fine collection of cynipid gall-flies collected by Mrs. Rose 

 Patterson Blakeman. This collection was made by Mrs. Blakeman 

 when a student in the University in 1905-6-7, and contains most of 

 the described species from California. The collection also includes 

 the parasitic species bred from the galls, but this material I was 

 not able to examine carefully until recently. Although there is 

 nearly as much parasitic as host material in the collection, I can dis- 

 tinguish only a few species, which are described herewith. 



CHALCIDOIDEA. 



TORYMID^. 



TORYMIN^. 



SYNTOMASPIS Forster. 

 S. calif ornica Ashm.? 



Female. — Length 4.5 mm., ovipositor 7.5 mm., expanse of wings 9 mm., 

 greatest width of fore-wing 2 mm. Head and thorax (except mesopleura pos- 

 teriorly and mctathorax, which are smooth and shining) rather coarsely trans- 

 versely rugose, the mesonotum, axillae and scutellum in front of the transverse 

 line which divides it beyond the middle, with very coarse umbilicate punctures ; 

 these much finer and largely effaced on head and pronotum ; scutellum beyond 

 the transverse line shagreened ; all covered with a whitish pubescence which 

 is especially marked on face and metathorax laterally; abdomen and legs smooth 

 and shining, but microscopically reticulate, coxae rather coarsely so, with a few 

 sparse hairs. 



