22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. 70 



from material collected in Alameda County, Calif., and recorded 

 under the same lot number as above. Two of the latter are in the 

 author's collection. 



5. CALLIMOME SULCATUM, new species 



Figure 94 



Female. — Length 2 mm.; ovipositor 1.8 mm. Dark shining green,, 

 robust, the scutellum with a deep cross furrow. Head transverse 

 and as wide as the thorax ; viewed from the front, green with a golden 

 tinge below the antennae; face reticulately-rugose and with a rather 

 prominent carina; scape mostly brown, but yellow ferruginous be- 

 neath; flagellum brown; pedicel as long as the first joint of funicle; 

 funicle joints, except the first two, as wide or wider than long; ring- 

 joint wider than long; ocellocular line about one and one-half times 

 the diameter of the ocellus. Thoracic dorsum wide, short and strongly 

 arched; furrows well defined; transversely rugose with a few shallow 

 irregularly placed impressions; reticulate punctures on the scutellum 

 more shallow than on the mesoscutum; the scutellar cross furrow 

 very deep and the apex of the scutellum shining; mesepimeron brown, 

 except the posterior part, which is dark green; propodeum smooth, 

 feebly reticulated ; coxae greenish-brown; femora greenish-brown in 

 the middle, the hind ones very dark; fore and mid tibiae ferruginous, 

 the hind ones infuscate, except the tips; tarsi yellow ferruginous; 

 wings strongly ciliate, veins pale brown, marginal vein four-sevenths 

 as long as submarginal. Abdomen brownish-green and about as 

 long as the thorax; ovipositor more than twice as long as abdomen, 



Male . — Unknown . 



Type locality. — Donner, Calif. 



Host. — Cynipid gall on Quercus pumila Walter.* 



Type.— C&t. No. 25349, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females reared January 21 to February 1, 1886, 

 and recorded under Bureau of Entomology No. 3770; collected by 

 A. Koebele. The types are deposited in the National collection. 



6. CALLIMOME AMELANCIIIERIS (Cushman) 



Figure 52 

 Synlomaspis amelanchieris Cushman, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 19? 

 1918, pp. 82-83. 



Type locality. — North East, Pa. 



Host. — Seeds of Amelancliier canadensis (Linnaeus) Medicius. 



Type.— Cat. No. 20968, U.S.N.M. 



Distribution. — Besides the type locality mentioned above this spe- 

 cies has been reared from the above-named seeds collected by C. R. 

 Cutright at Pickens, W. Va. Mr. Cushman reports that this species 

 is doubtfully phytophagous, or at least it is sometimes parasitic on a 

 species of Megastigmus. 



" The species of oak mentioned above is not known to occur iu California. 



