AKT. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CALLIMOME HUBER 91 



Ashmead on Quercus geminaia Small, collected by L. H, Weld, Cara- 

 belle, Fla. A female with the same data is in the author's collection. 

 This species is most closely related to Callimome californicum (Ash- 

 mead) but can be easily separated from it by the characters given in 

 the key. 



82. CALLIMOME PRUNICOLA, new species 



Figure 17 



Female. — Length 2.25 mm.; ovipositor 0.5 mm. Purplish-crim- 

 son; head wider than thorax and with coarse but shallow punctures; 

 sparsely clothed with white hairs; facial carina extending half the 

 distance to margin of mouth; scape yellow, pedicel brown with a 

 purplish shade, flagellum brown; ring-joint one and one-half times 

 as wide as long, the pedicel as long as first joint of funicle which is 

 longer than wide; the succeeding joints of funicle as wide to wider 

 than long toward the tip; eyes brunneus. Thorax robust, dorsum a 

 brilliant crimson purple, the sculpture coarsely rugose; sides of pro- 

 notum prominent; mesoscutum as long as the width of front margin; 

 parapsidal furrows deep, the scapulae bulged; scutellum as long as 

 the mesoscutum, the scutellar cross furrow distinct and back of the 

 apical one-third; scutellar apex minutely striate and greenish in some 

 lights; propodeum shining but with carinae in the middle; coxae and 

 femora crimson purplish, tibiae lighter but with a decided crimson 

 tinge; tarsi whitish yellow, stigmal vein sessile. Abdomen ovate, ro- 

 bust; segments not incised; sides with long silvery hairs especially 

 on the posterior segments; ovipositor one-third as long as abdomen 

 and very erect. 



Male . — Unknown . 



Type locality. — Sante Fe, New Mexico. 



Host.— "On cherry." 



Type.— Cat. No. 25328, U.S.N.M. 



This species is described from one female collected by T. D. A. 

 Cockerell and is recorded under Cockerell No. 1102, and bears a note 

 that it was taken on cherry. 



83. CALLIMOME HOLCASPOIDEA (Ashmead) 



Figure 5 

 Syntomasp''s holcaspoidea Ashmead, Mem. Car. Mus., vol. 1, 1904, p. 397. 



Redescribed from two females in the National collection and 

 labeled as holcaspoidea. 



Female. — Length 2 mm.; ovipositor as long as abdomen. Blue 

 with a tinge of crimson. Face rather coarsely rugulose, bulging 

 below the antennal depression, tinged with green and clothed with 

 short white hairs; facial carina very poorly developed, extending 

 scarcely outside of scrobes; scrobes deep and bright green; vertex 

 coarsely sculptured; scape yellow, pedicel light brown, the remainder 

 of antennae slightly darker and distinctly clubbed; eyes pinkish, the 



