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The pubescence of Callimome hircinum (Ashmead) is so unique 

 and unusual that a redescription is not necessary. Both type speci- 

 mens are well preserved. 



13. CALLIMOME FLAVICOXUM Osten Sacken 



Figure 46 



Callimome flavicoxa Osten Sacken, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 1870, p. 61 ; 

 No. 4. 



Torymus flavicoxa (Osten Sacken) Dalla Torre, Cat. Hymen., vol. 5, 1S98, 

 p. 305. 



Type locality. — Presumably Connecticut. 



Host. — Rhodites radicum Osten Sacken. 



Type. — In the Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



This species was described from several specimens. 



Distribution. — Connecticut (?). The following are in the National 

 collection: Seven specimens Hopkins No. 11349, reared April 14 to 

 June 3, 1913, from Diastrophus nehulosus Osten Sacken at Minor's 

 Hill, Falls Church, Va., collected by WilHam Middleton Two speci- 

 mens Hopkins No. 11332, reared June 12, 1913, from Diastrophus 

 nehulosus Osten Sacken. Some miscellaneous specimens from New 

 Jersey and Waterbury, Conn. Four specimens reared by E.R.Sasscer, 

 April 29, 1906, at Washington, D. C. Two specimens reared by 

 A. C. Kinsey from Diastrophus nehulosus Osten Sacken at Forest 

 Hill, Mass., are in the author's collection. 



14. CALLIMOME FULVUM, new speciea 



Figure 47 



Resembles Callimome jiavicoxum Osten Sacken and Callimome 

 duplicatum, new species, in the color markings of the abdomen, but is 

 separated from the former by the length of the ovipositor, and from 

 the latter by its larger size and antennal characters as mentioned 

 in the key. 



Female. — Length, 4.5 mm.; ovipositor about as long as abdomen. 

 Thorax greenish, the abdomen flavo-testaceous to brownish. Head 

 transverse and very much wider than the thorax, entirely violaceous- 

 crimson and cupreous in some lights; face minutely reticulated but 

 with numerous, irregularly scattered, impressions and clothed sparsely 

 with feeble white hairs; facial carina broad, extending two-thirds 

 the distance to the margin of the mouth; scape yellowish and long, 

 attaining level of median ocellus; pedicel and ring-joint brunneus, the 

 former equal in length to the second joint of funicle, but very dis- 

 tinctly shorter than the first joint of funicle, which is narrowed at 

 the base; ring-joint a little longer than its width at base; last joint 

 of funicle just a little longer than wide, the club longer than the last 

 two funicle joints combined; funicle and club black, each joint with 



