ART. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CAL.LIMOME HUBER 81 



Described from four females reared June to October by C. L. 

 Marlatt. The types and two paratypes are in the National collec- 

 tion; one paratype is in the author's collection. For this species I 

 have retained the manuscript name given it by Ashmead. 



75. CALLIMOME WARRENl (Cockerel!) 



Figure 36 

 Syntomaspis xoarreni Cockerell, Eiit, News. vol. 20, 1911, p. 82. 



Except for a few minor omissions and changes the original descrip- 

 tion of the female is as follows : 



Female. — Length 4.3 mm. ; ovipositor 5.4 mm. Bluish-purple with 

 strong tints of crimson. Head transverse, peacock green with faint 

 crimson tints, the frontal depressions behind the antennae shining 

 golden; eyes bright terra cotta red; sides of face very minutely rugo- 

 sopunctate, sides of front becoming striatulate; scape and ring-joint 

 ferruginous, flagellum black, the joints of funicle minutely longitudi- 

 nally keeled. Thoracic dorsum with large thimble-like punctures, 

 variegated with green and crimson; posterior part of scutellum 

 minutely granular, with microscopical punctures, and with a marginal 

 sulcus crossed by fine ridges; scutellar cross furrow very prominent; 

 anterior coxae brilliant green, the hind coxae crimson-purple; femora 

 and tibiae bright chestnut red ; tarsi yellowish, rufescent subapically, 

 black at apex; lower margin of hind femora minutely denticulate 

 beyond the middle; viens of wings fulvo-ferruginous, the stigmal vein 

 sessile. Abdomen brilliant magenta, with purple shades; first three 

 segments deeply incised medially and inclined to be carinate. 



Type locality. — Trinidad, Colo. 



Host. — (Holcaspis) Disholcaspis, species on Quercus undvlata Torrey. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13362, U.S.N. M. 



Male. — Length 3.25 mm. Scape greenish-brown; joints of funicle 

 longer than wide; femora bluish-purplish with crimson tints in some 

 lights; fore tibiae infuscate in middle, mid tibiae purplish, hind tibiae 

 dark testaceous with a strong crimson-purplish tinge outwardly. 

 Abdomen short and depressed. 



Described from two males recorded under Hopkins, No. 13604c 

 and reared by W. Middleton June 15, 1915, from Disholcaspis rubens 

 Gillette on scrub white oak collected at Manitou, Colo. 



Distribution. — Trinidad, Colo. (type). Manitou, Colo, (males de- 

 scribed above) . The following are also represented in the National 

 collection: Two specimens, Hopkins No. 10773w, reared June 26, 1919, 

 from Disholcaspis rubens Gillette on Quercus gambelli Nuttall, collected 

 by J. H. Pollock at Colorado Springs, Colo. Two specimens, Hopkins 

 No. 10781s, reared July 9 to August 7, 1919, from a twig gall on 

 Quercus oblongijolia Torrey, collected by G. Hofer at Sycamore Flat, 

 Ariz. One specimen, Hopkins No. 15604a, reared July 15 to August 17, 



