ART. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CALLIMOME HUBER 49 



40. CALLIMOME COLORADENSIS, new species 



Figure 70 



Female. — Length 2.5 mm.; ovipositor 2.5 mm. Body greeu, the 

 thorax metallic and abdomen shining. Head wider than thorax; 

 front minutely sculptured and somewhat depressed in the region of 

 the antennal attachment; front of head rather densely clothed with 

 white appressed hairs; scape flattened, not reaching to the median 

 ocellus, about two-thirds of the lower side yellow, the tip and upper 

 side brownish; flagellum brown, the pedicel and ring-joint fuscous; 

 pedicel and ring-joint combined longer than the first joint of funicle, 

 the ring-joint as long as wide; all joints of funicle longer than wide; 

 eyes and ocelli red. Thoracic dorsum finely sculptured and moder- 

 ately clothed with silky white hairs; parapsidal grooves well defined; 

 propodeum feebly reticulated and shining; mesepimeron very deeply 

 incised, coppery; coxae green; fore and mid legs mostly yellow-ferru- 

 ginous, but with the femora lightly infuscated outside, the hind ones 

 greenish brown except the tips; tibiae infuscated in the middle the 

 hind one very dark; last two joints of tarsi brown; wings strongly 

 ciliated, veins light brown; marginal vein three-fourths as long as the 

 submarginal, the stigmal vein petioled. Abdomen very slightly sub- 

 compressed; segments medially incised, emarginate; ovipositor longer 

 than abdomen. 



Male. — Length 2 mm. Scape entirely dark green; first joint of 

 funicle distinctly longer than wide; ocellocular line no longer than the 

 long diameter of post ocellus. Abdomen shorter than the thorax. 



Type locality. — Fort Garland, Colo. 



Host. — Cecidomyia, species gall on Artemisia, species (Sage Brush). 



Type.— Cat. No. 25363, U.S.N.M. 



Described from nine females and five males reared June 25-27, 

 1883, by F. L. Bruner and recorded under Bureau of Entomology 

 No. 3120°^. The female type, male allotype, and 10 paratypes in the 

 National collection. Two paratypes are in the author's collection. 



41. CALLIMOME PERPLEXUM, new species 



Stigmal vein similar to Figure 41 



This species is separated from all others in the genus by the dusky 

 wings, as indicated in the ke}^. The sculpture of the thoracic dorsum 

 is also unique. In all other respects it is typically a Callimome. 



Female. — Length 5 mm. ; ovipositor 1 1 mm. Thorax atropurpureus 

 with a bluish tinge; the abdomen same color. Head as wide as thorax; 

 face finely rugose and with shallow umbiiicate impressions; antennae 

 separated by a prominent carina; two broad brown lines extending 

 from the antennae to margin of mouth; scape fuscous with greenish 

 tinge, flattened and attached about the middle of head and reaching 



