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AUSTRALIAN 

 HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA XII.* 



The Family Callimomidae with Descriptions o( New Genera and Species. 



By a. a. Girault. 



SUBFAMILY CALLIMOMINAE. 



(lEXUs TOKYMi:S Dalmaii. 

 1. TORYMUS EUCALYPTI Ashnicad. Fenuilo : inal<>. 



Lengtli. '2.8 to :'. nun.; dn i]Hisitnr ;is loni; :is tlio liody. Cdlil jjreiMi witli fuiirocnis 

 reflections; head in front and mesojjlenra Ijlne-green; mandiljles rufous; palj)! white; 

 antennic brown-black, scajie and ]iedieol a-neous; tegnlir and logs except coxa^ and the hind 

 femora which are metallic green, i)ale yellowisli, tibial sjairs and tarsi wliite; wings hyaline, 

 stigmal and marginal veins brown. 



Head shagreeued and ]innctate, ocelli red; thorax above transvi'rsely wriiikl<'d or 

 striate, with some sparse jnmctures scattered over its siirfai-e; nietathora.x smooth, with 

 some short lineations at extreme base just back of scntelhiTii; nieso]>leura smooth, inipunctate 

 except some delicate lines on anterior margin; hind coxa; large, coarsely reticulated. 



The male measures from 2 to 2.'2.5 mm. and agrees well with the female except in the 

 usual sexual differences, and in having sometimes a brownish or metallic band on the anterior 

 and middle femora, the extreme base of the scape being yellowish, while tlie flagelhmi is 

 stouter, with the joints a little wider than long. 



Uahitut : Sydney, New South Wales. From a soft red gall on Kiiciiljiptiis. 



Type: No. 4877, United States National Museum, Washington. I ).('., l'.S..\. 



(iENT« CALLIMOMK Thomson. 

 1. CALLDMOME ACACLffl Cameion. 



" (ireen; thorax tinged with blue, face and nuilar space tinged with gohUni. antennal 

 scape green, flagellum black; troclianters, base and apex of fennn-n narrowly and tibia' and 

 tarsi yellovv, almost white; wings hyaline, nervnres black. 

 J Q. Length, 2 mm. ; terebra 1..") nmi. 



Erina, N.S.W., bred from small berry like galls on the fcdiag.- of Amciii sji. ; 2S 

 August (W. W. Froggatt). 



Face strongly ]ninctured, more weakly ab(i\c than below, and nn)re sjiarsely in the 

 middle above; a keel runs down its middle fjoni the antenna', it becoming widened below. 

 Vertex and front sparsely punctured, their sides transversely striated, the latter more 

 strongly than the former; the s]iace below the ocelli aciculateil only. Mesonoluni finely, closely 

 transversely striated. Ease of scutelluin trans\ ersely, the sides linely :ind dosi'ly longi- 



♦ Contribution No. 35, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar E.\pf riment Stations. Hundaberg, 

 Queensland. t 



