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Described from one female type and one male allotype in the United 



States National Museum and reared by A. Koebele May 21, 1884. 

 These specimens are recorded under Bureau of Entomology No. 3231. 



34. CALLIMOME ATRIPLICIS, new species 



Figure 45 



Female. — Length 2.5 mm; ovipositor 1.2 mm. Thorax aeneous in 

 some lights; abdomen darker. Head viewed from front finely retic- 

 ulate and very strongly cupreous in some lights and at certain angles; 

 scape brown testaceous, flagellum brown, the pedicel darker and longer 

 than the first funicle joint; joints of funicle not all longer than wide 

 but of nearly equal width; eyes dark red. Thoracic dorsum with a 

 roughly reticulated surface and conspicuously clothed with white 

 recumbent hairs; propodeum moderately reticulated; coxae dark cop- 

 pery green, the pleura dark cupreous and entirely reticulated; mese- 

 pimeron shining coppery, except the posterior part which is greenish; 

 femora and tibiae testaceous, tarsi citrine except the last joint which 

 is brown; wings strongly ciliate, veins pale testaceous, the stigmal 

 vein petioled. Abdomen green with an aeneous reflection dorsally 

 and laterally in some lights, except the first segment which is without 

 a coppery reflection; first four segments medially incised. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Los Angles County, Calif. 



Host. — Cecidomyid gall on Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nuttall. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25402, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females collected by A. Koebele, June, 1887, 

 and recorded under Koebele No. 229°. 



35. CALLIMOME KINSEYI, new species 



Figure 99 



Female. — Length 2.8 mm.; ovipositor 2.5 mm. Thorax metallic 

 green with cupreous reflections; minutely sculptured; abdomen dark 

 green. Head strongly transverse and as wide as thorax; viewed 

 from the front produced anteriorly, very strongly depressed and 

 green with a golden tinge in some lights; antennae separated by a 

 prominent carina which extends nearly to the mouth; scape fuscous 

 with a bronzy tinge; flagellum brow^n the pedicel and ring-joint 

 darker; pedicel a little longer than the first joint of funicle, all joints 

 of which are distinctly longer than wide but increasing slightly in 

 width toward the tip; each joint of funicle clothed with regularly and 

 widely placed light-brown hairs that are almost as long as a joint 

 itself. Thoracic dorsum not heavily clothed with white hairs; parap- 

 sidal furrows well defined; the scutellar cross furrow not conspicuous; 

 scutellar apex cupreous; pleura very cupreous the depressions green; 

 propodeum moderately reticulately punctate; coxae bronzy, femora 

 and tibiae ferruginous at tips the middle brown outwardly, and the 



