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bearing the name Torymus sackeni Ashmead. Twelve specimens 

 collected by C. F. Baker, Agricultural College, Michigan, with Nos. 

 468, 187, 608, and 356. Three specimens from Waterbury, Conn. 

 One specimen from Plummer Island, Md., and one specimen from 

 Duval, Ga. Four specimens recorded under No. 218 with no further 

 data other than reared January 29, 1891. 



Felt ^ records this species as parasitic on an Itonid midge gallmaker, 

 namely, Dasyneurae serrulatae Osten Sacken on Alnus crispa (Alton) 

 Pursh, and on Dasyneurae rosarum Hardy on Rosa, species. 



I have not had opportunity to examine the types of Callimome 

 jagopyrum Provancher, but have put this species into synonomy from 

 a careful study of the description. In this genus of a little more than 

 100 species there are but 2 species that have a rugose propodeum 

 together with the supporting characters mentioned by Provancher. 

 One of these, rihesii Huber, is reported from California only, while 

 the other, saclceni Ashmead has been reported from Canada as already 

 mentioned. It seems likely that fagopyrum and sackeni are identical. 



18. CALLIMOME ALASKENSIS, new species 



Figure 59 



Torymus cecidomyiae (Walker) Ashmead, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 

 1902, p. 143, misidentification of Callimome cecidomyiae Walker. 



Female. — Length 2.75 mm; ovipositor 1.5 mm. Body mostly dark 

 green. Head as wide as thorax; viewed from the front subtriangular, 

 sparsely clothed with white hairs and with a slight coppery reflection 

 in some hghts; carina separating antennae very well developed and 

 decidedly elevated just below the antennae; scape long, blackish- 

 green, flagellum dark brown; pedicel as long as the first joint of funi- 

 cle, the ring-joint a little longer than wide; second and succeeding 

 joints of funicle at least one-fourth shorter than the first and gradually 

 increasing in width toward the tip; the first two joints of club a 

 little shorter than the two preceding joints; ocellocular line equal to 

 the lateral ocellar line. Thoracic dorsum with a cupreous tinge in 

 some lights; mesoscutum finely reticulately punctate, the anterior 

 portion rugose; scutellum smoother, not rugose, but with several 

 shallow widely separated pits; scutellar cross furrow apparent on 

 sides of scutellum, but visible only at certain angles in the middle; 

 scutellar apex not so deeply reticulated and with a highly cupreous 

 reflection; metanotum with a carina; propodeum coppery and smooth; 

 coxae dark green, fore and mid femora infuscate in the middle out- 

 side, ferruginous at the tips, the hind femora dark brown with a 

 slight greenish tint, except the tips, which are ferruginous; tibiae 

 testaceous; last joint of tarsi brown; veins light brown; marginal 



' Report State Entomologist, 1913, pp. 16fi-!87. 



