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with a strong under shade of brown; pronotiim, just behind the 

 juncture with the head, with a transversely rugose area that is 

 smoother than the posterior part; remainder of dorsum minutely re- 

 ticulately rugose with numerous shallow impressions which are most 

 numerous on the scutellum just on each side of the middle; scutellum 

 with a well-defined cross furrow, the area behind the furrow not so 

 deeply sculptured as before it; propodeum rather widely but not 

 deeply punctured and with a longitudinal impression beginning at the 

 center of the anterior margin and extending back about three-fourths 

 the length of the propodeum; fore coxae entirely yellow; mid coxae 

 yellow, except for a green spot near the base; the hind coxae yellow 

 at the tips only, brown underneath and greenish-brown above; rest 

 of legs entirely yellow, the tarsi light yellow; front femora much 

 swollen, almost as wide as the hind femora; wmgs with stigmal vein 

 petioled. Abdomen very slender; antero-dorsally light, yellowish- 

 brown, the rest brown with a tinge of green and a cupreous reflection 

 in some lights. 



Male. — Length 2.25 mm. Darker than the female. Scape yellow 

 ferruginous; flagellum brown ferruginous. Otherwise similar to 

 female. 



Type locality. — Morgantowu, W. Va. 



Host. — Cecidomyid gall on willow. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25356, U.S.N.M. 



The female is redescribed from one type specimen collected by 

 A. D. Hopkins May 1, 1891. The male is described for the first time 

 from a series of 10 males and 6 females deposited in the National 

 collection and bearing the number 1660L; a single label indicates 

 that they were reared from a Cecidomyid gall on willow. No data 

 under the above number are obtainable. 



3. CALLIMOME DRUPARUM (Boheman) 



Figure 43 



Torymus druparum Boheman, Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 54, 1833, p. 

 361, No. 24. 



Syntomaspis druparum (Boheman) Mokrzecki, Zeitschr. wiss. Insektb., vol. 2, 

 1906 p. 309-92.— Crosby, Bull. 265, Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta., 1909, p. 369.— Cush- 

 MAN, Journ. Agr. Res., vol. 7, 1916, p. 487. — Gahan, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., voL 

 24, No. 2, Feb., 1922. 



Type locality. — Europe, Suecia. 



Host. — "Seeds of apple (Pyrus) and of Mountain ash (Sorbus) in 

 Europe and North America." Gahan, 1922. Also Mains and Cra- 

 taegus, Wellhouse, W. H. Insect Fauna of the Genus Crataegus, 

 Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memorandum 

 56, June, 1922, page 1131. 



Distribution. — Many specimens in the National collection reared 

 b}^ R. A. Cushman from apple seeds collected at Orwell, Vt., and 



