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and eunator of moderate length; decaton longer than the eunaton; protelum 

 shorter than the eunaton; paratelum still shorter; telum very short; sheaths of 

 the oviduct black, pubescent, much longer than the abdomen; legs yellow; coxae 

 green; a longitudinal stripe of green on each of the metafemora, and the same 

 fuscous on each metatibia; mesotarsi and metatarsi straw color, fuscous at the 

 tips; wings limpid, broad, very long, reaching when at rest to half the length of 

 the sheaths of the oviduct; nervures piceous; humerus much less than half the 

 length of the wing; ulna much shorter than the humerus; radius hardly longer 

 than one-sixth of the ulna; cubitus half the length of the radius; stigmal small, 

 emitting a very short branch. 



Type locality. — Canada; Martin Falls, Albany River, Hudson Bay. 

 Host. — " Cecidomyia communis Branston's MSS." 

 Type. — Probably in British Museum. 



91. CALLIMOME SPLENDIDULUS (Dal!a Torre) 



Callimome splendldus (Barnstorf) Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 14, 1844, 

 p. 14 (not Forster nor Perty). 

 Torymus splendidulus Dalla Torre, Cat. Hymen., vol. 5, 1898, p. 313. 



Due to the inaccessibility of the above publication to many stu- 

 dents I am including the original description of this species. The 

 words in italics are my own and are added for the sake of clearness. 



Females. — Viridis cupreo varius, abdomine purpureo, antennis nigris, pedibus 

 rufis, alis subfulvis. (Corp. long. lin. 2; Alar. lin. 3.) 



Body convex, thinly clothed with hairs; head and thorax minutely squameous; 

 the scales on the head and on the fore part of the thorax so disposed as to form 

 little transverse undulations; head green, aeneous in front, as broad as the 

 thorax; eyes and ocelli red; mandibles fulvous; antennae black and clavate, 

 pubescent, shorter than the thorax; first joint fulvous, long, slender; second 

 (pedicel) long-cyathiform; third and fourth very minute; (it is my opinion that 

 what appeared to Walker to be two joints was in reality one joint, viz, the ring-joint) ; 

 fifth and following joints to the eleventh successively shorter and broader; club 

 linear, conical at the tip, more than twice the length of the eleventh joint 

 {= tenth joint) ; thorax elliptical, green; prothorax transverse, forming in front a 

 slender neck which joins the head, its breadth more than twice its length; scutum 

 of the mesothorax long; sutures of the parapsides distinct, approaching each 

 other; axillae large, triangular, not conniving; scutellum nearly rhomboidal; meta- 

 thorax cupreous, transverse, very short; propodeum cupreous; large, subquad- 

 rate, almost horizontal, having a few little ridges {carinae) along the middle; 

 podeon (petiole) extremely short; abdomen elliptical, purple, very minutely 

 squameous (reticulated) , varied with green on each side, nearly as long and as 

 broad as the thorax; metapodeon (first abdominal segment) occupying more than 

 one-third of the dorsum, slightly dehiscent (incised) on the middle of the hind 

 border, having a little channel at the base; octoon a little shorter than the 

 metapodeon; eunaton much shorter than the octoon; decaton still shorter; 

 protelum, paratelum and telum very short; segments of the thorax partly cu- 

 preous, very minutely squameous, having a suture along the middle; ventral seg- 

 ments of the abdomen concealed by those of the dorsum; legs pale red; sheaths 

 of the oviduct black, pubescent, a little longer than the abdomen; coxae green, 

 scaly; wings slightly tinged with yellow; nervures fulvous; humerus much less 

 than half the length of the wings; ulna much shorter than the humerus; radius 

 much shorter than one-fourth the length of the ulna; cubitus not half the length 



