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the tips; fore and mid tibiae brownish except the tips; fore and mid 

 tibiae testaceous, the hind tibiae rather strongly infiiscate; wings 

 sparsely ciliate, veins pale testaceous, stigmal veins sessile. Abdo- 

 men shining dorsally, about as long as thorax and not as wide. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Falls Church, Va. 



Host. — Amphiholips coccinaeae (Osten Sacken) Ashmead on Quercus 

 rubra Linnaeus. 



Type.— Cat. No. 28672, U.S.N.M. 



Described from seven females. 



Distribution. — Falls Church, Va. (type). Three specimens Hop- 

 kins 13607c (type) and d and/, and two specimens Hopkins No\ 

 13608^" and g, reared August 9 to September 17, 1915, collected by 

 W. Middleton and with data as above. These specimens are in the 

 National collection. Two female paratypes reared September 3, 1918, 

 from AmpJiibolips confluentis (Harris), collected at Blue Hills, Mass., 

 by A. C. Kinsey, one of these in the author's collection. 



60. CALLIMOME GAHANI, new species 



Figure 35 



Female. — Length 4 mm.; ovipositor 3.75 mm. Thorax robust, 

 dorsum blue with tints of green and a few purplish spots in some 

 lights; abdomen dark green. Face minutely reticulately rugose but 

 with a few irregularly placed impunctations; blue green and with a 

 few silvery hairs; facial carina transversely aciculated, the sides with 

 short bristly hairs ; antennae attached just a little below the middle, 

 scape yellow and cylindrical; pedicel fuscous and about three times 

 as long as the ring-joint which is one-third as long as wide; pedicel 

 and ring-joint combined scarcely as long as the first joint of the 

 funicle; flagellum brown with minute longitudinal keels arranged so 

 as to give joints a double aspect; joints of funicle all longer than 

 wide and of about equal length; eyes pinkish, ocelli amber; the ocell- 

 ocular line about one and one-fifth times the length of the long 

 diameter or nearly twice the length of the short diameter of posterior 

 ocellus; the lateral ocellar line exactly equal to the long diameter of 

 post ocellus. Dorsum minutely reticulately punctate, and clothed 

 with delicate hairs; parapsidal furrows deep and black; scutellum 

 with a longitudinal depression which is more finely sculptured; scutel- 

 lar cross furrow well defined, the apex of scutellum not so deeply sculp- 

 tured; propodeum mostly smooth and shining; coxae fuscescent blue; 

 femora brownish inwardly and greenish brown outwardly and slightly 

 pubescent; tibiae yellow; wings ciliate, veins j^ellow, except the stig- 

 mal vein which is brownish; stigmal vein sessile. Abdomen very 

 feebly carinate dorsally; first four segments incised medially; area 

 in region of first segment yellowish to light brown undershade. 



