Three New Chalcid Flies From California 
By A. A. GIRAULT. 
(Material for this paper was sent from the Zoological Department 
of Pomona College.) 
Sympiesomorphelleus californicus, New Species. 
Female: Similar to nigriprothorax, but twice larger and dif- 
fering as follows: The stripe along the meson of the abdomen is 
narrower and is joined narrowly to base; the propodeum is all metal- 
lic green except narrowly along the median carina and broadly at 
mesal apex. The rectangular sclerite laterad of the postscutellum 
is metallic. There is a more distinct metallic spot near tegule. 
There is an oblique metallic stripe across the mesopleurum from the 
base of the caudal wing and an area of irregular shape on the meso- 
pleurum over the cephalic coxa; also the cephalic third of the scutum 
is dark metallic, like the prothorax, and the scape is entirely black. 
Otherwise the same. The third joint of the club is nipplelike and 
may be articulated. 
Described from two females from Claremont, California (C. 
F. Baker). 
Types: Catalogue No. 20172, U.S. N. M., the above specimens 
on tags, a head and a caudal tibia on a slide. 
The species nigriprothorax has the margins of the abdomen black; 
the parts mentioned in the original description of it are dark me- 
tallic. 
Zagrammosoma mira new species. 
Female: Very similar to favolineata Crawford, but the abdomen 
bears no yellow spots, the entire caudal femur is metallic purple ex- 
cept at apex (only with a cinctus distad of middle in the other 
species), the extreme base of caudal tibia is more distinctly purple, 
the caudal coxa has more than a purple spot above at base, its basal 
third or more is purple, the yellow median stripe of the thorax is 
narrower and more uniform in width, the distal stripe of the fore 
wing is nearly or quite complete, though fainter coudad; there is no 
narrow longitudinal yellow stripe down parapside and axilla; and 
