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mesoscutum; scutellar apex not so deeply punctate and hence ap- 

 pearing somewhat polished; propodeum and metanotum steel-blue, 

 the former moderately longitudinally reticulated; legs, except the 

 bases of hind coxae which are green, entirely yellow ferruginous, the 

 tarsi paler; wings strongly ciliate, veins dark yellow; marginal vein 

 three-fourths as long as submarginal, the stigmal vein petioled. 

 Abdomen as long as thorax, five-sixths as wide and much flattened 

 dorsally; antero-dorsally with a brown spot about the width of hind 

 femora, the remaining of abdomen yellow ferruginous, except a dark 

 brown area dorsally that extends from the tip of abdomen to the 

 middle; ovipositor as long as abdomen. 



Male. — Length 2.5 mm. Funicle joints, except the first two, about 

 as wide or wider than long. Otherwise about same as female. 



Type locality. — Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 



Host. — DiastropTius cuscutaeformis Osten Sacken on Rub'us, species. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25362, U.S.N.M. 



Described from seven females and three males recorded under 

 Bureau of Entomology No. 6635° and reared May 18, 1895, from 

 material collected in the type locality by A. R. Phillips. Besides 

 the series from the type locality the National collection contains one 

 female from Waterbury, Conn., and also one female recorded under 

 Hopkins No. 13606 reared June, 28, 1915, from galls of Diastrophis 

 cuscntaeformis Osten Sacken on Ruhus, species collected by Wm. Mid- 

 dleton at Falls Church, Va. A paratype from the type locaHty in 

 the collection of the author. 



18. CALLIMOME ALAMEDENSIS, new species 



Figure 48 



Very closely alHed to Callimome sackeni Ashmead but is smaller, 

 not so robust, has a longer ovipositor and some different antennal 

 characters as already indicated. 



Female. — Length 3.5 mm; ovipositor 2 mm. Thorax bluish-green, 

 the abdomen green with a strong cupreous reflection posteriorl3^ 

 Head as wide as the thorax; viewed from the front green with a 

 slight cupreous tinge and sparsely clothed with short white hairs; 

 carina, below the antennae, very low and wide; scape yellow ferru- 

 ginous, except the tip above which shows brown; flagellum blacky 

 the pedicel and ring-joint brownish-black; pedicel longer than the 

 first funicle joint; the ring-joint as long as wide; first three joints of 

 funicle a little longer than wide, the rest wider than long and all 

 clothed sparsely with white hairs; vertex cupreous and more coarsely 

 sculptured ; postocellar line one and one-half times the long diameter 

 of an ocellus. Thoracic dorsum moderately reticulately rugose and 

 with numerous shallow pits; scutellum with a purplish fine extend- 

 ing from the anterior margin to a point about two-thirds the dis- 

 tance posteriorly; posterior one-fourth of scutellum with a distinct 



