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Male. — Thorax green with a cupreous reflection in somehghts. Ab- 

 domen depressed. Color essentially same as in female. (The head 

 and hind legs of the only male specimen were missing.) 



Type locality. — Colorado. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25324, U.S.N. M. 



Described from three females and one poorly preserved male, 

 collected by Engleman on willow. The female type, male allotype, 

 and one paratype are in the National collection. There is one para- 

 type in the author's collection. 



28. CALUMOME STROBILOIDES, new species 



Figure 51 



Female. — Length 3.5 mm.; ovipositor 4.25 mm. Thorax bright 

 green, the abdomen bluish-green. Head about as wide as the thorax 

 and very strongly depressed ; face finely reticulately punctuate and 

 clothed sparsely with short white hairs; antennae separated by a low 

 broad carina; antennae with scape brown testaceous, darker at tip; 

 flagellum very dark brown, rather slender, all joints longer than wide 

 and of nearly equal width, the club swollen; pedicel and ring-joint 

 combined equal to the first joint of funicle, the ring-joint distinctly 

 wider than long; funicle and club clothed with very closely set short 

 hairs; vertex narrow and more coarsely rugose than face; the pos- 

 terior ocellus one and one-half times the length of the diameter of an 

 ocellus from the eye margin. Thoracic dorsum minutely reticulately 

 punctured, the reticulations on the anterior portion of the mesocutum 

 more elongate than on the posterior; parapsidal grooves distinctly 

 marked but not deep; entire dorsum with irregularly placed impres- 

 sions; propodeum smoothly reticulated and with a very distinct but 

 not high carina; fore coxae infuscate; mid coxae slightly greenish 

 brown; the hind coxae greenish brown above and infuscate at the 

 tips; rest of legs yellow ferruginous, the hind femora and hind tibiae 

 a little darker; tarsi yellow, except the tips which are brown; wings 

 ciliate, veins pale brown, the marginal vein three-fifths as long as the 

 submarginal, and the stigmal vein petioled. Abdomen longer than 

 the head and thorax combined ; viewed from the side the dorsal line 

 not straight; strongly subcompressed but not carinate. 



Male. — Unknown . 



Type locality. — Columbus, Ohio. 



Host. — Ehabdophaga strobiloides (Walsh) on Salix cliordata Muhlen- 

 berg. 



Type.— Cs,t. No. 25351, U.S.N.M. 



Described from three females. The type reared by the author. 

 One female paratype, recorded under Bureau of Entomology No. 

 215°, reared April 13, 1887, from Rhahdophaga strobiloides (Walsh) 



