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7. CALLIMOME RUDBECKIAE (Ashmead) 



Figure 97 



Torymus rudbeckiae Ashmead, Bull. Colorado Biol. Assoc, vol. 1, 1890, p. 26. 



The original description follows: 



Female. — Length 2.8-3.6 mm; ovipositor about 2 mm. Blue, closely, finely 

 punctate, the mesonotum a little rugulose, lower part of face green. Antennae 

 black, scape beneath pale yellow. Parapsides distinct, but not sharply defined, 

 the latteral lobes are not very convex, the middle lobe being about two and one- 

 half times as long as wide. At base of insertion of anterior wings and on the 

 metapleurae are bright, polished, cupreous spots. Legs yellow-ferruginous, all 

 tarsi pale, the hind tibiae fuscous. Abdomen about as long as the head and 

 thorax together, subcompressed, blue, with some greenish tingings at apex, the 

 sides of segments with sparse long hairs, and with a microscopical wavy sculp- 

 ture. Wings hyaline; tegulae and submarginal vein yellowish, other veins brown; 

 the marginal vein is about thrice as long as the postmarginal, the stigmal short 

 with a prominent hook. 



Male. — In the male the legs are waxy-yellow, the antennal scape very short, 

 fiagellum much stouter, longer and cylindrical, dorsum of abdomen concave at 

 base; otherwise as in female. 



The stigmal vein of the wing in this species is petioled ; the scutellar 

 cross furrow is not readily conspicuous ; in the female the mid and 

 hind coxae are green, the tarsi whitish, except the last two joints, 

 which are brown; the scape of the male is dark, brownish-green, and 

 the fiagellum brown in both sexes. 



Type locality. — West Cliff, Colo. 



Host. — Gall on Rudbeckia, species. 



Type.— Cat. No. 25353 U.S.N.M. 



This species was taken by T. D. A. Cockerell. It was described 

 from one male allotype and one female type. Besides the type series 

 there is a female and a male from the type locality in the National 

 collection, 



8. CALLIMOME MELLIPES, new species 



Figure 65 



Very easily separated from all others by the color of the legs and 

 the unique type of thoracic sculpture. 



Female. — Length 2.6 mm.; ovipositor 1.3 mm. Thorax bluish 

 purple with a tint of green in some lights; abdomen shining, violace- 

 ous-purple. Head same color as the thorax; minutely reticulated 

 and with conspicuous widely sepa.rated punctures; scape lemon yellow 

 beneath and brown above; the fiagellum brown; pedicel as long as 

 the first joint of funicle; all joints of the funicle after the third wider 

 than long and gradually growing wider toward the tip; eyes brownish. 

 Thoracic dorsum with a sculpture that is very definite, the reticula- 

 tions being more or less regular in form and seemingly flattened; the 

 surface smoother and the reticulations more clearly defined on the 



