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This species is redescribed from two specimens in the National 

 collection. It is most closely related to Callimome dryophantae 

 (Ashmead) and Callimome aeneum Ashmead, but is decidedly more 

 robust than either of them, besides differing in minor details. 



Ashmead wrote that he suspected that this species was para- 

 sitic on an Anthomyiid larva which he found mining the leaves of 

 a cultivated plant. 



48. CALLIMOME AENEUM Ashmead 



Figure 11 



Callimome aenea AsnuEW, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 9, 1881, Proc, p. xxxiii. 



Callimome dryorhizoxeni Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 12, 1885, Proc, 

 p. xiii. No. 9. 



Syntomaspis aeneus (Ashmead) Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, 1887, 

 p. 187. 



Syntomaspis dryorhizoxeni (Ashmead) Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 

 14, 1887, p. 187. 



Torymus omnivorae Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, 1887, p. 188, 

 No. 26. 



Female. — Length 2.3 mm; ovipositor 2.3 mm. Mostly brown, aene- 

 ous in some lights. Head three-eighths as long as wide; face finely 

 reticulately rugose with irregularly placed shallow impressions, from 

 which silvery white hairs arise; antennae separated by carina, which 

 is long extending nearly to margin of mouth; scape ochraeous, the 

 flagellum brown; joints of fuuicle a little longer than wide and each 

 joint with minute longitudinal keels about three-fourths its length; 

 club as long as the two preceding joints, the first joint of club very 

 distinctly wider than the first joint of funicle; eyes reddish, ocelli 

 amber. Thoracic dorsum finely reticulately rugose and rather 

 sparsely clothed with moderately long whitish hairs; parapsidal 

 grooves feebly impressed; irregularly placed shallow impressions on 

 the dorsum scarcely visible; furrow separating the mesoscutum and 

 scutellum deeply impressed and dark; scutellar cross furrow distinct, 

 the scutellar apex less deeply sculptured than the rest of scutellum, 

 without hairs and slightly polished; propodeum without carinae or 

 lateral folds; coxae fuscous, trochanters light brown, femora brown 

 except the tips, tibiae light brown, tarsi whitish, except the tips which 

 are fuliginous; veins of wings pale yellow, the stigmal vein sessile. 

 Abdomen as long as the head and thorax combined; more or less 

 tubular and with long silvery hairs on the margins of segments; first 

 four segments medially incised. 



Male. — Length L5 mm. Entire body including legs, except tarsi, 

 fuscous. 



Type locality. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Host. — Andricus virens (Ashmead). 



Type.— Cat. No. 2826, U.S.N.M. 



