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moderately reticulately rugose, and the area below the antennae 

 clothed with long white hairs; carina prominent below the antennal 

 groove which is very shallow; scape entirely yellow; pedicel infuscate 

 in middle, yellowish at tips, the rest of flageullm brown and densely 

 pubescent; ring-joint more than twice as wide as long; the joints of 

 the funicle all distinctly longer than wide, except the last two which 

 are very little longer than wide, and all gradually increasing in width 

 toward the tip; ocelli reddish. Thoracic dorsum minutely rugose, 

 mostly yellow, but with a faint tinge of green which is most promi- 

 nent on the pronotum; parapsidal furrows distinct; scutellar apex 

 more finely sculptured than rest of scutellum; propodeum green, 

 except at the margins; mesepimeron with a green spot posteriorly; 

 legs and ventral portion of thorax bright yellow; wings strongly cil- 

 iate, veins pale brown ; marginal vein not quite five-sevenths as long 

 as submarginal, the stigmal vein petiolate. Abdomen shorter than 

 the thorax and rather robust; a yellow spot near the middle dorsally ; 

 ventrally light brown to yellow ferruginous; ovipositor less than one- 

 third as long as the abdomen. 



Male . — Unknown . 



Type locality. — Washington, D. C. (?) 



Host. — Hickory gall on under side of leaf. 



2V2>e.— Cat. No. 25399, U.S.N.M. 



Described from four females recorded under Bureau of Entomology 

 number 252L° and reared May 2, 1824, by O. Lugger. The type and 

 two paratypes are deposited in the National collection. One para- 

 type is in the author's collection. 



The greenish tinge of the thoracic dorsum is subject to consider- 

 able variation; some specimens are more distinctly yellow than 

 others. 



n. CALLIMOME DURUM Osten Sacken 



Callimome dura Osten Sacken, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 1870, p. 59, No. 2. 



Type locality. — Washington, D. C. (?) 

 Host. — Diplosis caryae Osten Sacken. 

 Type. — Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



12, CALLIMOME HIRCINUM (Ashmead) 



Figure 71 

 Torymus hircinus Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 21, 1894, p. 333. 



Type locality. — Morgantown, W. Va. 



Host. — Twig gall on willow. 



Type.— Cat. No. 25360, U.S.N.M, 



This species is represented in the National collection by one male 

 (selected as allotype) and one female (type), collected by A. D. 

 Hopkins. 



