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Distribution. — In addition to the type specimens mentioned above 

 the National collection contains the following: Two specimens, Hop- 

 kins No. 15634a, reared November 9 to November 14, 1919, from 

 Disholcaspis terrestris Weld on Quercus margaretta Ashmead, collected 

 by L. H. Weld at Ocala, Fla. One specimen, Hopkins No. 156346, 

 reared May 12, 1920, from Disholcaspis j^olita Bassett on Quercus cTiap- 

 mani Sargent, collected by L. H. Weld at Ocala, Fla. Three speci- 

 mens. Bureau of Entomology No. 989^, reared September 12 to 28, 

 1881, from AmpMbolips globulus Beutenmeuller from Quercus, species, 

 Atlanta, Ga. One specimen, Hopkins No. 12072, reared June 27, 

 1914, from AmpMbolips inanis Osten Sacken on Quercus rubra Lin- 

 naeus collected by W. Middleton at Plummer Island, Md. Two spec- 

 imens, Hopkins No. 13608a, reared June 28 to August 9, 1915, from 

 AmpMbolips coccinca (Osten Sacken) Ashmead on Quercus rubra Lin- 

 naeus collected by W. Middleton at Falls Church, Va. Three spec- 

 imens, Hopkins No. 12052a, reared June 13, 1914, by W. Middleton 

 at Falls Church, Va. One specimen, Hopkins No. 12025, reared April 

 27, 1914, from Disholcaspis globulus Fitch on Quercus alba Linnaeus 

 collected by W. Middleton, Falls Church, Va. One specimen. Bureau 

 of Entomology No. 158^°, reared February 13, 1884, from Andricus 

 Jlocci Walsh on Quercus macrocarpa Michaux collected by A. Koebele 

 at Washington, D. C. In the author's collection there is one speci- 

 men, Hopkins 12052a, with data as above. 



59. CALLIMOME COCCINEUM, new species 



Similar to figure 40 



Most closely allied to Callimome melanocerae (Ashmead) but differs 

 greatly in the type of the sculpture of the thorax and is smaller. 



Female. — Length 3.5 mm. ; ovipositor 5 mm. Thorax shining green 

 with an aeneous tint in some lights; abdomen mostly green but with 

 a definite purplish brown area in the center dorsally. Face bronzy 

 below the antennae and sparsely clothed with feeble hairs; facial 

 carina short but high and entirely green; scape testaceous, flagellum 

 brown; pedicel and ring-joint equal to the first joint of funicle, all 

 joints much longer than wide and of equal width; vertex green with tint 

 of blue; eyes and ocelli red; posterior ocellus the length of its short 

 diameter from the eye margin. Posterior margin of pronotum with 

 a purplish band; dorsum finely and shallowly reticulated except for 

 many and very conspicuous punctures from which short hairs arise; 

 rugosity transverse on mesoscutum and irregular on the scuteUum, 

 except for the scutellar apex which is transverse; scuteUum with a 

 longitudinal depression through the center which is more finely retic- 

 ulated and bluish; scutellar cross furrow very distinct; propodeum 

 smooth, except an almost inconspicuous carina and several punctures 

 on anterior margin; coxae dark green, hind femora dark green, except 



