ART. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CALLIMOME HUB1:R 67 



There is some variation in color in this species. The thorax may 

 have a purplish or a brassy tinge in some lights. In specimens that 

 have been studied the sculpture is constant. 



58. CALLIMOME MELANOCERAE Ashmead 



Figure 34 



Callimome melanocerae Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 12, 1883, Proc, 

 p. xiii, No. 10. 



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

 p. xiii, No. 11. 



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

 18S7, p. 187. 



Syntomaspis citriform,is (Ashmead) Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, 

 1887, p. 187. 



Female. — Length 3.2 mm.; ovipositor .5.5 mm. Metallic green, 

 the thoracic dorsum not punctate. Head wider than thorax, trans- 

 verse, green, the face with a golden tinge and minutely reticulately 

 rugose with several large shallow impressions; facial carina low but 

 extending very near to clypeal margin; scape ferruginous, flagellum 

 blackish; pedicel and ring-joint combined shorter than first funicle 

 joint; the ocellocular line and lateral ocellar line about equal in 

 length and not quite as long as the diameter of mid ocellus. Tho- 

 racic dorsum minutely transversely reticulately punctate, the mes- 

 oscutum conspicuously rugose, the scutellum more punctate, poste- 

 rior margin of mesoscutum aeneous; scutellum somewhat longitudi- 

 nally depressed and more finely punctured near the anterior margin; 

 scutellar apex with shallow sculpture and shining; propodeum feebly 

 rugose the anterior margin with small punctures; marginal veins two- 

 thirds as long as submarginal, the stigmal vein sessile; coxae green and 

 moderately clothed with white hairs, trochanters bronzy, inner sides of 

 femora infuscated and with a purplish tinge, the exterior green and 

 clearly reticulated, the outer tip ferruginous; tibiae ferruginous, the 

 tarsi pale yellow. Abdomen nearly as wide as the thorax and 

 about as long; feebly reticulated; first four segments feebly incised. 



Type localities. — Jacksonville, Fla. 



Host. — Amphibolips melanocerae (Ashmead). 



Type.— Cat. No. 25345, U.S.N. M. 



This species is redescribed from the type specimen. In addition to 

 the type of melanocerae the National collection contains the type of 

 Callimoms citriformis Ashmead (cited in synonomy above) reared from 

 Amphibolips citriformis (Ashmead) Dalla Torre, Jacksonville, Fla. 

 These two types are similar in every respect. In Ashmead 's descrip- 

 tion it is stated that in Callimome citriformis the joints of the fla- 

 gellum have an unusual character. Examination of the antennae 

 revealed that they were still covered with the pupal sheath, which 

 was probably unnoticed by Ashmead, hence his statement. Calli- 

 mome citriformis Ashmead bears the type Cat. No. 25346, U.S.N.M. 



