ART. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CALLIMOME HUBER 99 



91. CALLIMOME SMITHI (Ashmead) 



Figure 24 



Torymus smithi Ashmead, Mem. Car. Mus., vol. 1, No 4, 1904, p. 398. 



The original description follows: 



Female. — Length 3 mm.; ovispositor longer than the body. Blue, the head 

 and thorax with a thimblelike punctuation, the tips of the scutellum smooth 

 and metallic green; the scape, tegulae, veins, and most of the legs, except the coxae 

 and the femora, are yellowish, the coxae and the hind femora are blue, the front 

 and middle femora above and basally are brownish. 



Type locality. — Chapada and Para, Brazil. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Type.— Cat. No. 8056, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females but represented in the National collec- 

 tion by a single specimen. The head of this specimen is missing and 

 several parts of the body are not in position for study. I have 

 noted, however, that the thoracic dorsum is mostly blue with greenish 

 tints; the abdomen is violaceous as in Callimome tricolor Huber; the 

 fore and mid femora are greenish-brown with a slight purplish tint, and 

 the hind femora more distinctly violaceous; tibiae testaceous, the hind 

 ones infuscate at the extreme tip; the ovipositor not quite as long 

 as the body. 



92. CALLIMOME NEUROTERUM (Ashmead) 



Figure 9 



Torymus neuroterus Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, 1887, p. 188, 

 No. 27. 



This species, although first described from several specimens, is now 

 represented in the National collection by a single specimen, the abdo- 

 men of which is entirely missing and the remainder so covered with 

 glue that it has been difficult to examine it. For this reason I am 

 including Ashmead's short description, which is as follows: 



Male. — Length 1.25 mm. A diminutive, metallic green little species with a 

 large transverse head, black antennae, blue or violet colored metathorax and 

 abdomen and metallic green legs, the trochanters, tips of tibiae, and tarsi alone 

 being white. The abdomen is pedunculate. 



Additional notes: Head with reddish tints in some lights; viewed 

 from front strongly depressed, and clothed with few white, feeble 

 hairs; scape dark greenish-brown, the base lighter; flagellum brown, 

 the joints of funicle not longer than wide; postocellar fine about one 

 and one-half times the diameter of posterior ocellus. Thoracic dor- 

 sum minutely and not deeply reticulated; somewhat shining and 

 with cupreous tints in some lights; parapsidal furrows not depressed, 

 scarcely visible except toward the posterior; scutellum with reticula- 

 tions more or less longitudinal, the anterior portion slightly elevated; 

 scutellar apex highly polished ; propodeum smooth, shining, purplish, 



