ART. 14 THE CHALCID-FLY GENUS CALLIMOME — HUBER 105 



ALLOTORYMUS SPLENDENS (Provancher) 



Syntomaspis splendens Provancher, Addit. Faun. Can. Hymen., 1887, p. 196. 



Female. — Length 4 mm.; ovipositor 3.5 mm. Brilliant cupreous 

 with a bronzy or fuscescent tint. Head and thoracic dorsum very 

 finely punctured and polished, and with numerous shallow umbilica- 

 tions irregularly placed ; head distinctly wider than the thorax, the 

 face clothed sparsely with feeble hairs; scrobes very shallow and not 

 more finely sculptured than face; ocelli amber and very small, form- 

 ing nearly a thirty-degree angle at the median ocellus; posterior 

 ocelli dividing the vertex into three equal parts; eyes brunneus; 

 antennae as long as the thorax, scape yellowish and longer than the 

 pedicel, ring-joint and first funicle joint combined ; base of scape some- 

 what rounded to form a semi-knob ; pedicel ferruginous, a little darker 

 than the scape and shorter than the first joint of funicle; flagellum 

 black; base of first joint of funicle three-fourths as wide as the opposite 

 end, and two-fifths as wide as the first joint of the club. Thorax elon- 

 gate, being more than twice as long as wide at the tegulae; pronotum 

 nearly square, being a little produced anteriorly; parapsidal grooves 

 nearlj' straight; apical one-third of scutellum more liighly polished 

 than the anterior portion; propodeum long, deeply sculptured with 

 an inverted Y-shaped carina, the anterior margin deeply pitted; fore 

 coxae ferruginous, coppery at the base; mid coxae and hind coxae 

 green with a coppery reflection, the latter more deeply sculptured 

 than any other part of the body; femora and tibiae castaneous; tarsi 

 ferruginous; the hind tibiae straight; abdomen very strongly cari- 

 nate, five-sixths as deep as long and not quite one-half as wide as 

 deep; petiole a little longer than the metanotum; first segment of 

 abdomen green; abdomen tinged with purple in some lights and as 

 long as thorax. 



Male. — Length 3.2 mm. Antennae not so distinctly clubbed as 

 in female ; scape yellowish and more curved, the knoblike process at 

 base more conspicuous. Abdomen depressed and shorter than the 

 thorax. 



Redescribed from five specimens in the United State National 

 Museum. 



Type locality. — Canada. 



Host. — Unknown. 



The type of this species was deposited in the Harrington collection, 

 but is now in the Museum at the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, 

 Ontario, Canada. I have not had opportunity to examine the 

 type personally, but through the kindness of J. McDunnough, from 

 the above-named institution much valuable information has been 

 obtained. The type consists of one female, the abdomen of which 

 is missing. The female from which my description was drawn was 



