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Male. — Length 2.25 mm. Similar to female but uniformly darker. 



Type locality. — Hilt, Calif. 



Host. — Dipterous galls on Juniperus occidentalis Hooker. 



Type.— Cht. No. 25332, U.S.N.M. 



Described from ten specimens as follows: Female type and four 

 male paratypes recorded under Hopkins No. 12513c^ were reared 

 May 20, 1914, from material collected in the type locality by P. D. 

 Sargent. Male allotype and three paratypes under Hopkins 1251 3c ^, 

 with same data. One specimen recorded under Hopkins No. 13342(? 

 was reared August 1, 1917, from galls on Juniperus occidentalis col- 

 lected at Yosemite Park, Calif., by J. E. Patterson. Two specimens, 

 bearing Hopkins Nos. 12513c* and 12513c^, are in the author's 

 collection. 



74. CALLIMOME ALBITARSE, new species 



Figure 28 



Most closely allied to Callimome occidentale Huber. 



Female. — Length 3.5 mm.; ovipositor 3 mm. Thorax bright green, 

 the abdomen darker green. Head as wide as thorax and about as 

 long as wide; clypeus anteriorly produced and with two very notice- 

 able incisions in the margin toward the center; face rather densely 

 clothed with white appressed hairs; scape greenish-brown, somewhat 

 testaceous at the base; flagellum brownish, the pedicel purplish-brown; 

 ring-joint almost as long as wide and combined with the pedicel a 

 little longer than the first joint of funicle; joints of funicle gradually 

 growing shorter toward the tip, the last two slightly wider than long; 

 the distance between the median ocellus and a posterior ocellus a 

 little less than the distance between a posterior ocellus and the eye 

 margin; eyes reddish, the ocelli amber. Thoracic dorsum uniformly 

 minutely transversely reticulately rugose, there being no large shallow 

 impressions; parapsidal furrows very indistinct; cross furrow on the 

 scutellum well defined, the scutellar apex more finely rugose; scutellum 

 roundly convex; propodeum polished but with a few shallow pits on 

 the anterior margin; coxae and femora bluish-green; fore tibiae fuscous 

 in the middle, the mid and hind tibiae also fuscous, the tips of the 

 middle tibiae castaneous; wings moderately ciliate, veins yellow; the 

 marginal vein three-fourths as long as submarginal and the stigmal 

 vein sessile. Abdomen very much longer than the thorax; first three 

 segments deeply incised dorsally, the fourth feebly incised; all seg- 

 ments uniformally dark green; ovipositor longer than abdomen. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Kiley County, Kans. 



Host. — Gall on Solidago rigida Linnaeus. 



Type.— C&t. No. 25327, U.S.N.M. 



