AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 275 
AUSTRALIAN 
HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA—XII* 
The Family Callimomide with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. 
By A. A. GIRAULT. 
SUBFAMILY CALLIMOMINAE. 
GEeNus TORYMUS Dalman. 
1. TORYMUS EUCALYPTI Ashmead. Female; male. 
Length, 2.8 to 3 mm.; ovipositor as long as the body. Gold green with cupreous 
reflections; head in front and mesopleura blue-green; mandibles rufous; palpi white; 
antenne brown-black, scape and pedicel eneous; tegule and legs except coxe and the hind 
femora which are metallic green, pale yellowish, tibial spurs and tarsi white; wings hyaline, 
stigmal and marginal veins brown. 
Head shagreened and punctate, ocelli red; thorax above transversely wrinkled or 
striate, with some sparse punctures scattered over its surface; metathorax smooth, with 
some short lineations at extreme base just back of scutellum; mesopleura smooth, impunctate 
except some delicate lines on anterior margin; hind coxe large, coarsely reticulated. 
The male measures from 2 to 2.25 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 the flagellum is 
stouter, with the joints a little wider than long. 
Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. From a soft red gall on Lucalyptus. 
Type: No. 4877, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
GENUS CALLIMOME Thomson. 
1. CALLIMOME ACACIZ Cameron. 
“« Green; thorax tinged with blue, face and malar space tinged with golden, antennal 
scape green, flagellum black; trochanters, base and apex of femora narrowly and tibie and 
tarsi yellow, almost white; wings hyaline, nervures black. | 
5 Q. Length, 2mm. ; terebra 1.5 mm. 
Erina, N.S.W., bred from small berry-like galls on the foliage of Acacia sp.; 28 
August (W. W. Froggatt). ; 
Face strongly punctured, more weakly above than below, and more sparsely in the 
middle above; a keel runs down its middle from the antennz, it becoming widened below. 
Vertex and front sparsely punctured, their sides transversely striated, the latter more 
strongly than the former; the space below the ocelli aciculated only. Mesonotum finely, closely 
transversely striated. Base of scutellum transversely, the sides finely and closely longi- 
* Contribution No. 35, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, 
Queensland. 
