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ocellus; eyes red. Thoracic dorsum with a slight cupreous tinge at 

 certain angles and minutely reticulate rugose; scutellum flattened 

 and the cross furrow very obscure; propodeum minutely reticulated 

 and cupreous; incision in the mesepimeron very shallow; coxae green, 

 yellowish at the tips, trochanters yellow, femora yellow with a brown 

 area in the middle on the outside; the hind femora entirely brown, 

 except the tips; fore tibiae yellow, the hind ones light brown, except 

 the tips; tarsi yellow, the last joint brown; wings strongly cihate, 

 veins brown; marginal vein four-fifths as long as the submarginal, 

 the stigmal vein petioled. Abdomen longer than the thorax; green 

 dorsally, the ventral and lateral areas bronzy ; very slightly subcom- 

 pressed. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Durango, Colo. 



Host. — Rhodites, species on Rosa fendleri Crepin. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25396, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females reared May 18, 1899, from material 

 collected by C. F. Baker and recorded under Bureau of Entomology 

 No. 8513 «K 



25. CALLIMONE MAGNIFICUM Osten Sacken 



Figure 62 



Callimome magnifica Osten Sacken, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol.3, 1870, p. 

 62, No. 7. 



Callimome magnifica (Osten Sacken) Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, 

 887, p. 188, No. 23 not Callimome (Torymus) bedeguaris Linnaeus. 



Female. — Length, 4.75 mm.; ovipositor, 6 mm. Head viewed from 

 the front rather triangular; antennae separated by a prominent carina; 

 face with indistinct and irregularly placed impressions and with a 

 cupreous reflection; scape yellow, the flagellum brown; all joints of 

 funicle longer than wide, the first four or five twice as long as wide; 

 vertex purplish; ocellocular line about one and one-fourth times the 

 long diameter of the post ocellus which is distinctly longer than the 

 lateral ocellar line. Pronotum with a purplish spot at juncture with 

 the head ; rest of thoracic dorsum with a bluish green color and with 

 numerous equally distributed impressions; pubescence very delicate; 

 propodeum smooth, shining, bluish, and with small punctures on the 

 anterior margin; fore coxae greenish-brown at base, the rest yellowish; 

 mid coxae green testaceous; hind coxae green, yellowish at the tips; 

 rest of legs yellow ferruginous; wings strongly cihate, the stigmal vein 

 petioled. Abdomen narrow and very decidedly longer than the thorax; 

 somewhat produced anteriorly and cupreous with a tinge of purple; 

 rest of abdomen purple-violaceous with tints of blue in some lights. 



Male. — Length, 3.75 mm. Abdomen as long as the thorax, the pos- 

 terior two-thirds cupreous with a purple tint. Otherwise essentially 

 as in female. 



