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Male. — Length 4 mm. Scape testaceous, flagellum fuscous; fore 

 and mid femora greenish-brown with a violaceous tinge on the basal 

 two-thirds ; the hind femora more distinctly brown on the basal one- 

 half, the other ends testaceous; tibiae testaceous. 



Tyjpe locality. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Host. — AmpMholips cinerea Ashmead. 



Type.— Cat. No. 2825, U.S.N.M. 



This species is represented in the National collection by the type 

 series which consists of two males and seven females from which I 

 have redescribed it. One female para type is in the author's collec- 

 tion. 



Distribution. — In addition to the type series there are 1 1 specimens 

 recorded under Bureau of Entomology 2302 and reared from galls on 

 live oak collected at Crescent City, Fla., on June 18, 1880, by H. G. 

 Hubbard; also two specimens of them labeled " Duval County, Fla." 



56. CALLIMOME CASTANOPSIDIS, new species 



Similar to Figure 41 



Resembles Callimome gaJiani Huber but is larger and more robust; 

 and the position of the ocelli differs. 



Female. — Length 4 mm.; ovipositor 5 mm. Thorax moderately 

 dark green with a bluish tinge in some lights; abdomen cyaneous 

 with purplish tints. Head transverse and seven-ninths as long as 

 wide; viewed from the front minutely reticulated and with several 

 shallow irregularly placed impressions; purplish brown below the 

 antennae and clothed sparsely with short white hairs; median ca- 

 rina below insertion of antennae low and wide, the antennal depres- 

 sion shallow; scape long, cylindrical and pale ferruginous; flagellum 

 brown, the funicle and club clothed with very short closely set hairs; 

 pedicel and ring-joint combined scarcely as long as first joint of fu- 

 nicle; all joints of funicle distinctly longer than wide and equal in 

 width; ocelli brownish; the ocellocular line equal to the length of 

 long diameter of posterior ocellus. Thorax robust and strongly 

 arched, the dorsum minutely reticulately punctate and clothed 

 sparsely with short white hairs that arise from shallow impression; 

 parapsidal grooves not deep but well marked with shining black 

 lines; scutellar cross furrow indicated by a shining blue line; scutellar 

 apex as widely but not so deeply sculptured as the anterior of scutellum ; 

 propodeum feebly rugose longitudinally and somewhat polished, the 

 anterior margin depressed and punctured on each side of a rather 

 wide central area which is not pitted ; fore coxae dark greenish brown, 

 femora brown, the hind femora greenish brown; tibiae pale testa- 

 ceous, the tarsi whitish yellow; veins of wings yellow, the marginal 

 vein seven-tenths as long as the submarginal; stigmal vein sessile. 

 Abdomen conspicuously but not deeply reticuiated; moderately sub- 



