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1919] Gahan: Chalcid-Wasps 161 



Type, allotype and seven paratypes reared by V. L. Wilder- 

 muth from galls of the alfalfa midge and recorded under Webster 

 No. 7268, Tempe No. 2251. Also a large series of specimens 

 from the same host and locality reared by Wildermuth under 

 Tempe No. 2264. 



Antenna of type female on Hymenoptefa Slide No. 781, and 

 antennse of a male and a female paratype on Hymenoptera 

 Slide No. 782, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Bruchophagus funebris Howard. 



Specimens of this seed-chalcid were reared by Mr. Wilder- 

 muth from galls of Asphondylia websteri at Tempe, Arizona, 

 under Tempe No. 2264. Its presence in these galls is undoubt- 

 edly accounted for by the fact that it not infrequently happens 

 that developed seeds of alfalfa are present within the gall formed 

 by the midge and these seeds afford opportunity for the develop- 

 ment of the Bruchophagus. 



Family CALLIMOMID^. 



Callimome asphondyliae, new species. 



Female. Length 2.25 m.m. Head and thorax shagreened above; 

 face below antennae less strongly sculptured than the vertex; antennae 

 rather short and thick; funicle seven-jointed, the funicle joints subequal 

 in length, but increasing slightly in breadth toward the apex, and all 

 joints broader than long, the first only slightly so, the last about half as 

 long as thick; club three-jointed, not as long as the three preceding 

 funicle joints; ocelli in a low triangle, the lateral ocellus separated 

 from eye-margin by about the long diameter of the ocellus; parapsidal 

 grooves complete, but weakly impressed posteriorly; propodeum without 

 carinae and uniformly shagreened, the sculpture not as strong as on 

 scutellum ; hind coxae laterally sculptured like the scutellum ; hind femora 

 outwardly sculptured about like the propodeum; wings sparsely ciliated, 

 the cilia more or less arranged in rows; stigmal vein very short, post- 

 marginal also short; abdomen about equal to the thorax in length, the 

 first tergite smooth, other tergites weakly sculptured, more strongly 

 so at sides ; ovipositor extending beyond the apex of abdomen about one 

 and one-third times the length of abdomen. Color, dull blackish 

 green, the head and thorax sparsely clothed with silvery white hairs; 

 eyes pale reddish; face, propodeum, hind femora and the abdomen 

 more strongly metallic than dorsurh of thorax; sides of thorax and hind 

 coxag bluish ; antennal scape and all tibiae and tarsi brownish testaceous ; 

 flagellum, median and front femora, tarsal claws and ovipositor sheaths 

 brownish black; wings hyaline; venation pale brownish. 



Male. Length 2 mm. Tibia^ all dark brown. Otherwise agrees 

 with the female except the general color is perhaps a little darker. 



