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Distribution. — Connecticut (type) . Fifty-three specimens, Hopkins 

 No. 13604a, reared June 4 to August 6, 1915, by Wm. Middleton 

 from Rhodites multispinosus Gillette, collected by L. H. Weld at Fort 

 Sheridan, 111. Forty-eight specimens, Hopkins No. 75600, reared from 

 Rhodites variabilis Bassett April 29 to July 17, 1918, collected by L. H. 

 Weld at Prescott, Ariz. One specimen from Rhodites multispinosus 

 Gillette taken at Oxbow, Saskatchewan, by F. Knab. Three speci- 

 mens from Lytorhodites arefactus on Rose tendleri Crepin, reared April 

 19, 1899, from galls collected in New Mexico. The following are in 

 the author's collection: Six specimens reared July 24 to August 3 

 from Rhodites dichloceros (Harris) Osten Sacken on Rosa, species at 

 Buckeye Lake, Ohio. The following were taken by A. C. Kinsey 

 (dates given refer to time gall was collected and not to the time 

 when parasites emerged): Two specimens March 17, 1920, at Ujiak, 

 Calif., from Diplolepis californica Kinsey on Rosa, species. Four 

 specimens June, 1919, at Forest Hill, Mass., from Diplolepsis ignota 

 (Osten Sacken) Kinsey. Three specimens April 12, 1920, La Grange, 

 Oreg., from Diplolepis bassetti (BeutenmuUer) Kinsey. 



27. CALLIMOME TUBULARIS, new species 



Female. — Length 3.75 mm. ; ovipositor 4.5 mm. Green with a strong 

 cupreous tinge in some lights. Head and thorax equal in width; face 

 finely sculptured and densely clothed below the antennae with rather 

 long white appressed hairs; antennae attached a little below the middle 

 and separated by a poorly developed carina; scape somewhat flattened, 

 the lower part yellow beneath, the rest gradually shading into light 

 brown then into dark brown; flagellum brown; pedicel equal in length 

 to the first funicle joint; the ring-joint a little wider than long; the 

 joints of funicle nearly all one and one-half times as long as wide, ex- 

 cept the last which is considerably shorter; eyes red; the ocellocular 

 line about one and one-half times the diameter of ocellus; the distance 

 between a posterior ocellus and the anterior ocellus a little less than 

 the diameter of an ocellus. Thoracic dorsum minutely rugose; pos- 

 terior one-half of the mesoscutum and the scutellum somewhat flat- 

 tened, the extreme apical edge of the latter smooth ; propodeum smooth, 

 shining, cupreous, metapleura also cupreous; fore coxae bronzy at 

 the base, the tips yellowish; mid coxae greenish brown, the tips yel- 

 lowish; hind coxae bronzy; front pairs of femora and tibiae yellow, 

 the hind femora mostly yellow but infuscate medially on the outside; 

 the tarsi light yellow; wings strongly ciliate, the marginal veins seven- 

 tenths as long as the submarginal, and the stigmal vein petioled; 

 veins light brown. Abdomen green, the ventral area brown with a 

 cupreous tint; longer than the thorax and slightly subcompressed, 

 the first four segments deeply incised medially; tubularly produced 

 posteriorly. 



