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surface is shagreened, metathorax only slightly convex. Abdomen not quite 

 as long as head and thorax together, very much compressed beneath, short 

 elliptical and rather broad from above, triangular from side, truncate at apex 

 of 4th segment, following segments projecting dorsally and the rather long 

 ovipositor elevated, ist segment distinctly and the following two more or less 

 incised apically. Legs hairy, hind coxse enlarged, hind femora broad and flat, 

 faintly serrate and with a distinct tooth near apex. 



Blue green to green and blue with some purplish reflections, antennal scape 

 at base, mandibles, tegulse, tibiae and tarsi golden brown, eyes and ocelli red, 

 terebra reddish brown, antennae beyond scape and ovipositor sheaths black, the 

 latter hairy. 



Wings hyaline, pubescent, with some very evident hair lines, marginal vein 

 long, nearly as long as submarginal, postmarginal a trifle longer than stigmal, all 

 the veins brown except stigmal which is black. 



From gall of Callirhytis qiicrcus-agrifolicc (Bass.), Andrictts quer- 

 cus-californicns, and pimply gall on Q. douglasi from which no gall- 

 flies were bred. 



Described from many specimens in Coll. L. S. J. U. (Lot 499, s. 3). 



This species has some characters which would exclude it from 

 the group in which it is placed and for a long time I was inclined 

 to consider it as belonging to the genus Cryptopristus Forst. in the 

 next sub-family, but it has the wings of a genuine Torymine and in 

 any event is so like the preceding that it would naturally go with it. 



Ormyrin^. 



ORMYRUS Westwood. 

 0. distinctus, new species. 



Female. — Length 3.5 mm., expanse of wings 6 mm., greatest width of fore- 

 wing I mm. Faintly reticulately rugose, the fine sculpture of head and thorax 

 running transversely, reticulate sculpture of abdomen more pronounced ; also 

 finely punctate and covered with pubescence ; mesopleura behind femoral fur- 

 row, ist abdominal segment medially and all the segments narrowly at apex 

 smooth and shining. 



Head transverse, slightly wider than thorax, fairly thick anterior-posteriorly, 

 eyes moderate and convex, ocelli arranged in an obtuse triangle, front wide 

 between the eyes, face not narrowed, cheeks broad, separated from face by a 

 groove extending from lower margin of eye to base of mandibles, antennae 

 inserted on middle of face, only scape, pedicels, ring-joint, and 6 funicle joints 

 present. Thorax convex, pronotum about half the length of the mesonotum, 

 the latter without parapsides, axillae widely separate, scutellum convex, elongate, 

 hind margin truncate but rounded from oblique sides, slightly emarginate pos- 

 teriorly, the margin overhanging melanotum and indistinctly costate, the meta- 



