ART. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CALLIMOME HUBER 43 



Host. — Cecidomyia, species, gall on stems of Ruhus, species. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25395, U.S.N.M. 



Described from six specimens from the type locality recorded under 

 Bureau of Entomology No. 721p" and reared April 28, 1883, from 

 material collected by J. G. Barlow; and one female under the same 

 number reared March 13, 1891, from material collected at Providence, 

 Ind., by F. M. Webster. The female type, male allotype, and two 

 female and one male paratypes are in the National collection. A 

 male and female paratype from the type locality are in the author's 

 collection. 



33. CALLIMOME ASTERIDIS, new species 



Figure 58 



Female. — Length 3.2 mm; ovipositor 1.8 mm. Body green; thorax 

 bluish in some lights, rather elongate and finely reticulately punctate 

 dorsally. Head transverse and very much wider than the thorax; 

 face minutely sculptured and clothed sparsely with very feeble hairs; 

 carina separating antennae not prominent; the antennal depression 

 very shallow; scape orange yellow, flagellum brown; pedicel about 

 as long as first joint of funicle and as long as wide; all joints of 

 funicle longer than wide although the last one is very little longer 

 and somewhat wider than the first; ocelli amber, eyes purplish red 

 ocellocular line equal to the diameter of an ocellus. Mesoscutum 

 posteriorly flattened; scutellum convex; scutellar cross furrow not 

 conspicuous, but the apical end of the scutellum more finely sculptured 

 than the anterior; propodeum finely reticulated and somewhat smooth ; 

 fore coxae and legs entirely yellow, except the mid coxae which are 

 tawny and the hind coxae which are brownish below and greenish 

 above, the tips of each yellowish; last joint of tarsi brown; wings 

 strongly ciliate; veins light brown; the marginal vein three-fourths 

 as long as the submarginal and the stigmal vein petioled and very 

 oblique. Abdomen as long as thorax, rather strongly subcompressed 

 and mostly green; first three segments distinctly medially incised; 

 antero-dorsal area tawny with a lavendar tint in some lights, the sides 

 brownish ventrally. 



Male. — Length 2 mm. Scape fuscous, flagellum brown and densely 

 pubescent; pedicel as long as first funicle joint and ring-joint com- 

 bined; first funicle joint about one-fourth shorter than the second, 

 and the succeeding four not much longer than wide; fore coxae with 

 a greenish brown tinge at the base; other coxae darker than in female; 

 rest of legs testaceous, except the hind femora and hind tibiae which 

 are infuscate in the middle. Abdomen fuscescent and with a very 

 conspicuous pubescence. 



Type locality. — Holderness, N. H. 



Host. — Cecidomyia, species, gall on Aster. 



Type— Cat. No. 25365, U.S.N.M. 



