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1918, from galls collected by L. H. Weld at Prescott, Ariz. Two 

 specimens, Bureau of Entomology No. 2643^^ reared June 30, 

 1882, from a Cynipid twig gall on Quercus virginiana Miller, collected 

 by H. K. Morrison at Fort Grant, Ariz. Eight specimens, Hopkins 

 No. 1378Z, reared February 28, 1906, from a bud stem gall on Quercus 

 virginiana Miller, collected by A. C. Morgan at Giddings, Tex. One 

 specimen, Hopkins No. 13685a, reared June 1, 1918, from Dishol- 

 caspis cinerosa Bassett on Quercus virginiana Miller, collected by 

 L. H. Weld at Wharton Tex. Two specimens, Hopkins No. 13686e, 

 reared July 15, 1918, from Disholcaspis spongiosa Karsch, on Quercus 

 minor Sargent, collected by L. H. Weld, presumably in Texas. In 

 the author's collection there is one specimen bearing Hopkins No. 

 10781s. 



76. CALLIMOME RACEMAREAE Ashmead 



Figure 39 



Callimome racemareae Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent, Soc, vol. 9, 1881, Proc, 

 p. xxxiii. 



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



1887, p. 187. 



Female. — Length 5 mm.; ovipositor 11 mm. Dark bluish-purple, 

 shining in reflected light. Head transverse, wide as thorax and 

 two-thirds as long as wide; face iridescent bluish-purple with a tint 

 of green, the lower half most densely clothed with whitish pile; facial 

 carina prominent and extending one-half the distance to margin of 

 mouth; scape ferruginous to yellow and scarcely attaining the pos- 

 terior ocellus which is located at the apex of antennal depression; 

 pedicel ferruginous, rest of antennae black; scape, ring-joint, and 

 pedicel equal to first three joints of funicle; joints of funicie all dis- 

 tinctly longer than wide and of equal width. Thorax with a crimson- 

 purplish tinge ventrally ; dorsum clothed with rather long semirecum- 

 bent whitish hairs and very coarsely and irregularly punctate, the 

 space between the punctures being rugose and shining; scutellum not 

 so deeply punctured as the mesoscutum and slightly depressed medi- 

 ally; scutellar apex striolate reticulate and without large punctures 

 or hairs; parapsidal furrows distinct, the cross furrow on the scu- 

 tellum well defined ; propodeum carinated and with very large ridges 

 and pits on anterior; coxae crimson-purplish with tinge of green in 

 some light; femora and tibiae castaneous, tarsi whitish the last two 

 joints brown; hind femora with very minute denticulations on the 

 lower margin beyond the middle and clothed sparsely with long white 

 hairs; wings moderately ciliate, veins brown; the submarginal vein 

 not quite twice as long as the marginal, the stigmal vein sessile. 

 Abdomen distinctly shorter than the thorax; posterior margins of 

 tergites purplish, the anterior margins green; first four segments 

 feebly carinated and deeply incised medially. 



