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Type locality. — Probably Connecticut. 



Host. — Rhodites radicum Osten Sacken on Rosa, species. 



Paratype.— Cat. No. 25391, U.S.N.M. 



Type. — Museum of Comparative Zoology, No. 815. 



This species is redescribed from the male and female paratypes in 

 the National collection. 



There are in the National collection three females and one male 

 of Callimome hedeguaris (Linnaeus) reared in Europe and determined 

 by G. Mayr. These are undoubtedly the specimens examined 

 by Ashmead and upon the study of which he based his conclusions 

 that Callimome hedeguaris (Linnaeus) and Callimome magnificum 

 Osten Sacken were identical.'*' The fact that both species have 

 similar hosts and that they are very much alike in size and shape 

 probably induced him to consider them as identical. However, after 

 a careful study and comparison of the European specimens with 

 specimens of Callimome magiiijicum Osten Sacken, I am convinced 

 that they are not identical. They differ as follows: The propodeum 

 and abdomen are entirely cupreous in Callimome hedeguaris (Lin- 

 naeus), whereas they are purplish or bluish in Calimome magnificum 

 Osten Sacken; in the former the scutellar cross furrow is quite evi- 

 dent and the scutellar apex rather smooth and shining while in the 

 latter the opposite is true; in hedeguaris the sculpture of the thorax 

 is coarser, and the width of the mouth proportionately greater and 

 the length of the head proportionately shorter than in magnificum 

 which has the head more or less anteriorly produced. 



Distrihution. — Connecticut (?). In addition to the type series the 

 following specimens are in the National collection : Four specimens 

 from Waterbury, Conn. Two specimens reared February 6, 1884, 

 at Nyack, N. Y., by J. L. Zabriskei and recorded under No. 145. 

 Three specimens reared June 22, 1915, from Rhodites radicum Osten 

 Sacken, collected by G. O. Donnel, Washington, D. C. One speci- 

 men from Waterbury, Conn., is in the author's collection. 



26. CALLIMOME CHRYSOCHLORA Osten Sacken 



Figure 63 



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

 p. 63, No. 8. 



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

 p. 64, No. 9. 



Female. — Length 3.75 mm.; ovipositor 2.75 mm. Thorax green 

 with a bluish tinge, and as long as abdomen. Head as wide as tho- 

 rax; viewed from the front green and reticulately rugose; antennae 

 separated by a carina that extends two-thirds of the distance to the 

 margin of the mouth, the area below the carina decidedly cupreous; 



"Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 1870, p. 62. 



