Anr. 14 THE GHALCID-ELY GENUS CAIjLIMOME HUBER 21 



recorded under Quaintance No. 10901. Also 20 specimens F. H. B. 

 587 quarantine, New York, from seeds of Pyrus malus (Hill) Gray, 

 Vienna, Austria, collected by D. G. Tower. Two of the first-named 

 specimens are in the author's collection. 



4. CALLIMOME SCALARIS, new species 



Figure 98 



/'^€/7ia/^.— Length 2.3 mm.; ovipositor 1.5 mm. Body bronze. 

 Head decidedly wider than the thorax and not strongly transverse; 

 "viewed from the front clothed with white appressed hairs that are 

 longest below the antennae; carina, below the antennae, extending 

 hardly half the distance to the margin of the mouth; scape fuscous 

 And inserted just a little below the middle of the head ; the flagellum 

 rather dark brown; pedicel longer than the first funicle and ring-joint 

 combined and one-third wider than the funicle joint; ring-joint longer 

 than wide; joints of funicle gradually increasing in width toward the 

 tip, the last funicle joint twice as wide as the first, and subequal in 

 width to first joint of club; funicle clothed with short, bristly hairs; 

 ocelli ferruginous; the ocellocular line a httle longer than the lateral 

 ocellar line. Thoracic dorsum reticulately punctate, the reticulated 

 areas appearing scalelike and shining ; clothed with long, silky white 

 hairs; parapsidal furrows moderately deep; scutellar cross furrows 

 almost imperceptible; scutellar apex not so deeply sculptured as rest 

 of scutelum and hence somewhat shining; propodeum finely reticu- 

 lated; coxae same color as body, except the tips are lighter; femora 

 and tibiae uniform light shining brown, the tibiae yellowish-brown 

 inside and at tips, the last joint of tarsi brownish; wings strongly 

 ciliate, veins yellowish-brown, marginal vein two-thirds as long as 

 submarginal, and the stigmal vein petioled. Abdomen longer than 

 the thorax, but not as long as the head and thorax combined; rather 

 strongly depressed dorsally; the antero-dorsal area ferruginous; ter- 

 gites medially emarginate; ovipositor a little longer than the abdomen. 



Male. — Length 1.75 mm. Head greenish-brown with a cupreous 

 tinge on the face; the pedicel not as long as the first funicle joint 

 and ring-joint combined. Thorax dark green with a brownish tinge; 

 coxae, femora, and tibiae dark brown. Abdomen longer than the 

 thorax. Otherwise similar to the female. 



Type locality. — Arizona. 



Host. — Pachypsylla gemma Riley on Celtis, species. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25352, U.S.N.M. 



Described from seven females and three males. The type female, 

 male allotype, and six paratypes are in the National collection. 



Distribution. — Three females and one male under Bureau of Ento- 

 mology No. 371° reared March 5, 1888, from material collected in 

 Arizona by P. T. Baron. Six specimens reared February 14, 1888, 



