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by C. M. Packard from Lolium temulentum Linnaeus containing 

 Harmolita, species (?) collected at Hercules, Calif., and is recorded 

 under Berkley No. 1829. One male reared March 14, 1919, other- 

 wise with date as above. The three mentioned specimens in the 

 National collection. One specimen reared June 3, 1920, from Lolium 

 multijlorum Lamarck containing Harmolita, species collected at Rio 

 Vista, Calif., and recorded under Sacramento No. 20431 is in the 

 author's collection. 



52. CALLIMOME PIJNCTIFKONS (Ashmead) 



Figure 8 



Syntomaspis punctifrons Ashmead, Jour. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool., vol. 25, 1891, 

 p. 154. 



The original description follows: 



Male. — Length 2 mm. Bronze green, polished, and sparsely covered with a 

 whitish pile; face with rather coarse punctures and a median carina below the 

 insertion of the antennae; scape knees, tibiae, and tarsi reddish yellow; flagellum 

 brown-black, the joints about one and one-half times as long as thick. Collar 

 triangular; mesonotum a little longer than wide, with distinct furrows; scutellum 

 with a cross furrow at two-thirds its length; wings hyaline, the venation whitish 

 the marginal vein almost as long as the submarginal, stigmal very minute. 



I am including the original description of the type of this species. 

 It was described from one male specimen which is probably in the 

 British Museum and which I have not seen. In the United States 

 National Museum there is one female of the species which was labeled 

 as this species and is referred to in the Transactions of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London," but not described. 



Female. — Length 2.7 mm.; ovipositor 3.5 mm. Dark green, tinged 

 with black with a rather coarse transverse reticulately punctate rugu- 

 lose dorsum. Head transverse and wide as thorax ; viewed from the 

 front green with a strong coppery tinge; face clothed quite densely 

 with rather long white appressed hairs that arise from numerous and 

 unusually large punctures, the space between the punctures minutely 

 reticulated; antennae separated by a well developed carina which 

 extends nearly to the margin of the mouth; scape yellow ferruginous, 

 rest of flagellum light brown; pedicel and ring-joint ferruginous; 

 pedicel as long as first joint of funicle, the latter two-thirds as long 

 as the second funicle joint but distinctly longer than wide; other funi- 

 cle joints decidedly longer than wide and with very conspicuous 

 constrictions in the middle, giving each of them a double aspect; 

 ocelli maroon and nearly in a straight row; the ocellocular line, the 

 lateral ocellar line and a line extending from the mid ocellus to the 

 foraminal margin about equal in length; eyes bright red. Mesoscu- 

 tum with a coarse rugosity and clothed with conspicuous white hairs; 



» 1900, p. 253. 



