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The species of Callimome described by Boheman are all recorded in 

 the list of Chalcidise for the British Museum, with the following 

 exceptions : — C. azureus, speciosus, contubernalis, fuscipes, abdomin- 

 alis, chlorocopes, cyaneus, amethystinus, purpurascens, cupratus, 

 brachycerus. These are inserted in the preceding Synopsis of the 

 species. 



The abdomen of C. fuliginosus, Spin., and of C. annulatus, Spin., 

 is short and depressed, and they differ thereby from the rest of the 

 European species of this family, and perhaps do not belong to it. 

 C. longicauda and C. crinicaudis, Ratz., are perhaps identical with 

 C. nigricornis. 



Torymus fasciatus, Nees (Cynips fasciata, Fans. Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 1832, 288), appears to be a species of Decatoma. 



Callimome viridissimus, Zett., includes four species of that genus. 

 C. caudatus, Nees, is perhaps C. saphirinus. C. difficilis, Nees, may 

 be C. flavipes. C. globiceps, Nees (Ichn. globiceps, Ratz.), is perhaps 

 not a Callimome. C. nitidulus, Nees, may be a small variety of 

 C. nobilis. C. quercicola, Nees, is the same as C. cingulatus. C. minor, 

 Ratz., may be a Monodontomerus. C. Dresdensis, metallicus and 

 anephelus may be Diomori. C. cultriventris, Nordlingeri and con- 

 fluens, Ratz., have been reared from the conical galls formed on 

 beech-leaves by Cecidomyia Fagi : these galls have been lately ob- 

 served in England. I have seen abundance of them in Belgium, in 

 Switzerland, and in some parts of France, and have reared one 

 species of Callimome from them. In the description of C. obscuripes, 

 Foerst., the length of the oviduct is not stated. C. igneiventris, Costa, 

 is an inhabitant of South Italy. 



The North-American species of Callimome are as yet little 

 known ; only seven have been described, two of which were found at 

 St. Martin's Falls, in Hudson's Bay, and two in Florida : they much 

 resemble the European species. C. pavidus and C. ocreatus inhabit 

 Indiana, and are described by Say. The South-American and 

 Australian examples of Callimome are smaller than most of those in 

 Europe, and the species described as C. sulcus is probably a Mega- 

 stigmus. C. Ceylonica, Motsch., is the only Asiatic species yet 

 described. 



The exotic genera of Torymidae are not numerous. I have not 

 seen Pelecinella, Westiv., nor Pachytomus, Westw., which are said to 

 belong to this family. Pachytomus may be one of the Agaonidse, 

 Ecdamua is remarkable on account of its excessively long oviduct, 

 and the indications of the genus Metamorpha to a remote affinity 

 with Leucospis bave been before mentioned. 



Platyscapa, Motsch., and Platyneura, Motsch., do not belong to the 

 Torymidae. 



