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In some specimens the hind femora are much darker, the color 

 varying from a testaceous to a dark testaceous. 



21. CALLIMOME RHODITIDIS, new species 



Figure 95 



Female. — Length 2 mm. ; ovipositor about 1 mm. Thorax bluish- 

 green with an undershade of brown. Head much wider than the 

 thorax; seen from the front mostly brown beneath the antennae but 

 with a tinge of green; carina extending two-thirds the distance from 

 the antennae to the mouth; scape brown testaceous, the tips darker; 

 the fiagellum brown; pedicel robust and as long as the next two 

 joints combined, the ring-joint as long as wide; joints of funicle as 

 wide or wider than long, except the second and third; vertex with a 

 golden tinge. Thoracic dorsum minutely reticulately punctate and 

 clothed with rather long white hairs; scutellar cross furrow not 

 prominent but easily conspicuous at certain angles; scutellar apex 

 slightly shining; propodeum finely reticulated, smooth and with a deli- 

 cate greenish-purple color; coxae brown testaceous, rest of legs en- 

 tirely dark testaceous, except the hind tibiae which are moderately 

 infuscate and the tarsi which are somewhat lighter; wings strongly 

 ciliate, veins pale brown, marginal vein four-fifths as long as sub- 

 marginal, the stigmal vein petioled. Abdomen about same length as 

 thorax; segments rather emarginate, but the first three with incisions 

 visible at certain angles; antero-dorsally a delicate brown with a lav- 

 ender or greenish tinge; sides brown and sparsely clothed with hairs; 

 ovipositor as long as abdomen. 



Male. — Scape dark brown; coxae dark brown; the hind femora 

 and hind tibiae infuscate, the rest of legs yellowish. Abdomen 

 depressed. 



Type locality. — Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 



Host. — Rhodites, species on Rosa, species. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25354, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one female and three males reared from a gall May 12 

 or May 21, 1884, by Miss Cora N. Clarke, and recorded under Bureau 

 of Entomology No. 3239. The female type, male allotype, and one 

 paratype are in the National collection. One male paratype is in the 

 author's collection. 



22. CALLIMOME SYLVICOLA (Ashmead) 



Figure 53 



Torymus sylvicola Ashmead, Mem. Carnegie Mas., vol. 4, No. 1, p. 399. 



Type locality. — Chapada, Brazil. 

 Ilost. — Unknown. 



Type.~C&t. No. 8057, U.S.N.M. 



