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scape yellow, brownish at tips on upper side; ocellocular line exactly- 

 equal to the long diameter of post ocellus; distance from the forami- 

 nal margin to post ocellus one and one-half times the long diameter 

 of post ocellus; pedicel brown and exactly as long as the first joint 

 of funicle which is subequal to the second (flagellum broken off 

 except the first two joints) ; thoracic dorsum clothed rather densely 

 with silvery white hairs; parapsidal furrows well defined; tegulae 

 yellow; scutellar apex rather highly polished on the posterior half 

 the scutellar cross furrow scarcely visible; metanotum with a carina 

 propodeum smooth, shining, and very feebly longitudinally reticulate; 

 fore coxae greenish brown on the outside and yellow on the inside; 

 mid coxae yellow ferruginous with a green tint; hind coxae green 

 above, brown below and yellow at the tip; rest of legs yellow; wings 

 ciUate; stigmal vein petioled. Abdomen dorsally with first three 

 segments purplish blue, the anterior two-thirds of first with a testa- 

 ceous undershade; first and second segments deeply incised, the third 

 feebly incised ; rest of abdomen greenish brown in some lights; hairs 

 on sides more or less conspicuous. 



Male. — Length 2.8 mm. Essentially same as female. 

 Type locality. — Probably Connecticut. 

 Host. — Rhodites dicldoceros (Harris) Osten Sacken. 

 Paratype.—Csit. No. 25390, U.S.N.M. 

 Type. — Museum of Comparative Zoology, No. 818. 

 The female is redescribed from the paratype in the National 

 collection. 



Callimome magnificum Osten Sacken, Callimome chrysochlora Osten 

 Sacken, and Callimome solitaria Osten Sacken were recognized by 

 Osten Sacken as a difficult complex. There can be no doubt that the 

 first named species is good; but it seems that there is considerable 

 doubt as to the last two. It is my opinon that specimens formerly 

 included under the last two species mentioned are conspecific and 

 should be called chrysochlora. 



In the National collection there are about 50 specimens reared from 

 Rhodites multispinosus Gillette, taken in Illinois, and a like number 

 reared from Rhodites variabilis Bassett, taken in Arizona. From the 

 former lot I have selected four females that agree with the paratype 

 descriped above; the remaining specimens differ primarily in having 

 a longer ovipositor and a cupreous abdomen. In this series the ovi- 

 positor arives in length and the body varies somewhat in color. The 

 specimens from Arizona are essentially alike, differing only in that 

 some have a distinctly greenish-brown femora. I prefer to think of 

 this complex as one in which there is considerable variation and in 

 which some individuals are perhaps mutants. Careful breeding 

 experiments may be necessary in order to establish the truth. 



