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28 to July 24, 1883, from Andricus seminator Harris, with no further 

 data. Two specimens, Hopkins No. 8699i^ reared July 7,1912, from 

 Andricus seminator Harris on Quercus alba Linnaeus, collected by A. 

 D. Hopkins at Kanawha Station, W. Va. One specimen determined 

 by Ashmead as Syntomaspis advena Osten Sacken and reared from 

 Andricus petiolicola (Bassett) Mayr bearing Brodie No. 57. Three 

 specimens from Louisiana with no further data other than labeled 

 Quercus, species. In the author's collection there are three specimens, 

 Hopkins No. 13685e, reared April 5, 1918, from Disholcaspis globulus 

 (Fitch) on Quercus alba Linnaeus, collected by W. Middleton at Falls 

 Church, Va. Six specimens reared from Andricus seminator (Harris) 

 on Quercus, species, collected by A. E. Miller at Wooster, Ohio, July 

 27, 1920. 



54. CALLIMOME MEXICANUM (Ashmead) 



Figure 37 

 Torymus mexicanus Ashmead, Ent. News, vol. 10, 1889, p. 195. 

 The original description follows: 



Female. — Length 4 mm; ovipositor 6.5 mm. Head and thorax metallic green, 

 the hind margin of mesopleura violaceous followed by a bright cupreous band; 

 abdomen bronzed black; flagellum black; scape, tegulae and tarsi bronzish-yellow; 

 coxae metallic green; anterior femora toward base and the hind femora except 

 tips, metallic brown, the rest of the legs rufous, wings hyaline. The veins, except 

 the subcosta at base, dark brown. Head shagreened and punctate, the face 

 clothed with a white pubescence; mandibles ferrujrinoiis, the teeth black. Thorax 

 sparsely pubescent, transversely shagreened and punctured, the punctures more 

 distinct and coarser along the hind margin of the pronotum, on the parapsides 

 along the furrow of the same, and on the scutellum. Mesopleurae except the 

 hind margin sculptured, the hind margin smooth, impunctate. Hind coxae large,, 

 reticulately sculptured. Abdomen finely or microscopically reticulated, the dor- 

 sal flap bluish. 



Male. — Length 3.2 mm. Agrees well with the female in color and in the structure 

 of the head and thorax, but the tegulae and head are bluish-green, the tibiae 

 dark brown, the tarsi, except the terminal joint, whitish, while the abdomen is 

 bluish-green, scarcely as long as the thorax, with the dorsal flap bright green. 



I have examined the type series, which consists of two females and 

 one male, in the National collection, and add the following: 



The head and thorax are distinctly bronzy green with a shading 

 into brown; thoracic furrows and the scutellar cross furrow are well 

 defined; stigmal vein is sessile ; propodeum with a V-shaped inverted 

 carina. 



Type locality. — Guanajuato, Mexico. 



Host. — Andricus championi (Cameron) Ashmead. 



Type.— C&t. No. 4306, U.S.N.M. 



In the original description it is said that mexicanum was described 

 from "one female." On the same page Synergus dugesi Ashmead 

 was described from "one male and two female specimens," Exami- 

 nation of the types of both species shows that the number of speci- 



