ABT. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CALLIMOME HUBER 93 



Type locality. — Ithaca, N. Y. 



Host. — Cecidomyia, species. 



TVpe.— Cat. No. 25325, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females and one male reared February 28, 1898. 

 The female type and male allotype are in the National collection; one 

 female paratype is in the author's collection. 



85. CALLIMOME OSBORNI, new species 



Figure 4 



Female. — Length 2.75 mm.; ovipositor 3.75 mm. Thorax bluish- 

 green and deeply punctured; abdomen mostly yellow. Head very 

 much wider than the thorax and not strongly transverse; blue-green 

 except the margin of the mouth which is brown; facial carina scarcely 

 noticeable; scape attached to middle of the head, light yellow, rather 

 robust and slightly curved; pedicel a little darker than the scape and 

 somewhat brownish; rest of flagellum brown; pedicel and ring-joint 

 combined equal to the first joint of funicle which is five-eighths as 

 wide as the last joint of funicle; eyes and ocelli brunneus, the latter 

 almost in a straight line; the posterior ocelli about one and one-half 

 times their diameter from the eye margin. Pronotum almost entirely 

 transversely rugose, the mesoscutum with deep thimble-like punctures 

 but with a very coarse rugosity between the pits; parapsidal grooves 

 very distinct and not parallel at any point; scutellum not so deeply 

 sculptured, minutely reticulated anteriorly; scutellar cross furrow 

 distinct, the apex feebly sculptured and vertically rugose; propodeum 

 with a median carina, the anterior margin deeply pitted; pleura pur- 

 plish; coxae brown with a blue green tinge, the tips yellowish; fem- 

 ora, except the hind ones which are brown on the basal half, yellow; 

 tibiae yellow-ferruginous; wings moderately ciliate, veins brown, the 

 stigmal vein sessile. Abdomen a little longer than the thorax; 

 brownish ventrally, yellow laterally and dorsally, except a brown 

 area beginning one-third the distance from the anterior and extend- 

 ing back to the ovipositor and about one-third the width of abdomen ; 

 ovipositor three times as long as abdomen. 



Male. — Joints of funicle all distinctly longer than wide and of equal 

 width; hind tibiae brown, the others yellow-ferruginous with tints 

 of brown. Abdomen without yellow color but greenish-blue. 



Type locality. — Point of Rocks, Wyo. 



Host. — Cynipid gall on Rosa, species. 



Type.— Ci^t. No. 25323, U.S.N.M. 



Describe from one female and two males reared May, 1882, by 

 L. Bruner and recorded under No. 1010c. The female type and male 

 allotype are in the National collection. One paratype is in the 

 author's collection. I have named this species in honor of Prof. 

 Herbert Osborn. 



