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two rows of short whitish hairs; ocelli amber, eyes pinkish-brown. 

 Pronotum cupreous with a purplish tint just back of juncture with 

 the head, and with a cupreous band on the posterior margin; meso- 

 scutum rather coarsely reticulated, the scutellum more finely so, 

 but both with numerous, round and irregularly scattered impressions 

 which are most apparent on the scutellum; entire dorsum with a 

 slight cupreous reflection; propodeum with large reticulations, but 

 not deep, the grooves transverse in center and longitudinal on the 

 sides; spiracles prominent, the area around them coppery; both the 

 anterior and posterior margin of propodeum with large pits; fore and 

 mid coxae entirely yellow, the hind coxae yellow, except for about 

 one-fifth of the base, which is green shading into brown; rest of legs 

 yellow; wings strongly ciliated, veins pale brown; the marginal vein 

 seven-tenths as long as submarginal, the stigmal vein petioled. Ab- 

 domen yellow testaceous, except the posterior one-third, which is 

 brown; strongly compressed, carinate dorsally; tergites emarginate; 

 sheath of ovipositor thicker than the basal joint of hind tarsi. 



Male . — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Nebraska. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25397, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one female. This specimen was associated in the 

 National collection with Callimome flaviventre (Ashmead). 



15. CALLIMOME DUPLICATUM. new species 



Figure 55 



Closely allied to Callimome flavicoxum Osten Sacken, but is sepa- 

 rated by characters indicated in the key. 



Female. — Length 3 mm.; ovipositor 1.2 mm. Thorax green, the 

 abdomen brownish with a rather wide yellow band dorsally. Head 

 transverse, the face reticulately punctate and clothed sparsely with 

 fine hairs; scape long, slender and pale ferruginous, the tips on upper 

 side slightly brown; pedicel ferruginous, the ring-joint darker and 

 about as long as wide; funicle dark brown, each joint clothed with 

 two rows of widely separated and regularly arranged yellowish hairs 

 in addition to a finer type of pubescence; first four funicle joints dis- 

 tinctly longer than wide, the succeeding joints a very little longer to 

 not as long as wide; pedicel very slightly longer than first joint of 

 funicle; vertex more coarsely punctate than the face and with a 

 crimson tinge in some lights; ocelli amber; post ocellar line twice 

 the length of the lateral ocellar line and two-thirds the length of the 

 distance between the post oceUi. Thoracic dorsum moderately ru- 

 gose; posterior margin of pronotum highly shining and cupreous, the 

 sides yellow-ferruginous; scutellar cross furrow conspicuous at cer- 

 tain angles; anterior of scutellum more finely punctate than the 



