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ocelli trnasparent. Thorax coarsely rugose-punctate and with a vio- 

 aceous tinge in some lights; pronotura not so coarsely sculptured as 

 the mesoscutum and margined posteriorly with a shining band; cross 

 furrow on the scutellum deeply impressed ; scutellar apex finely retic- 

 ulate and with a bluish metallic color; pleura violaceous; coxae vio- 

 laceous blue, trochanters light brown, femora light brown on the 

 inside and crimson-brown on the outside; tibiae yellowish, tarsi 

 mostly whitish-yellow; stigmal vein sessile. Abdomen a little shorter 

 than the thorax, violaceous blue, segments emarginate dorsally. 



Male. — Length 1.2 to 1.5 mm. Agrees well with the female in 

 color and sculpture, except that the scape of the antennae alone is 

 yellowish, the pedicel being aeneous-black. The abdomen is small, 

 oval. Ashmead. 



Type locality. — Chapada and Corrumba, Brazil. 



Host — Unknown. 



Types. — Two males and two females in Carnegie Museum. 



The females from which the above redescription is drawn were 

 taken in Benito Province, Pernambuco, Brazil, February, 1883. 

 Although I have not had opportunity to study the types I believe that 

 the specimens in the National collection are identical with them. 



84. CALLIMOME SOLIDAGINIS, new speciaa 



Figure 6 



Resembles Callimome holcaspoidea (Ashmead) but may be separated 

 by the characters indicated in the key. 



Female. — Length 2 mm; ovipositor 1.5 mm. Bluish purple with 

 tinge of violet. Head transverse; viewed from the front slightly 

 wider than long; face minutely sculptured, with a few short but stout 

 white hairs, slightly convex and with a brownish-green tinge; vertex 

 strongly convex; ocelli amber, the eyes reddish; width between the 

 posterior ocellus and the eye margin about one and one-half times 

 the diameter of an ocellus; scape yellow, pedicel very fuscous, the 

 rest of the flagellum not so dark; flagellum distinctly clubbed and 

 longer than the width of the head. Thoracic dorsum with large um- 

 bilicate punctures which become more shallow towards the posterior, 

 the scutellum with very few punctures but with a very fine reticu- 

 lated sculpture; scutellar cross furrow well defined, the scutellar apex 

 entirely reticulated; parapsidal grooves and other thoracic grooves 

 strongly impressed and with greenish margins; coxae, trochanters 

 and femora brown with violaceous tinges, especially on the hind 

 femora, which in certain lights appears violaceous; tibiae distinctly 

 ciliate, the stigmal vein sessile. Abdomen brown, slightly violaceous 

 in certain lights; segments medially emarginate; ovipositor brown. 



Male. — Length 1.6 mm. Scape purplish-green, pleura purplish, 

 femora brownish-purple except tips of mid and fore tibiae. Abdo- 

 men shorter than thorax and brownish purple. 



