1916 Pomona Journal of Entomology and Zoolot/yJ'ol.I'llI.No.J, September 



Three New Chalcid flies From California 



By A. A. GiRAULT. 



(Material for this paper was sent from the Zoological Department 



of Pomona College.) 



SxmpicsomorpJicIlciis calif urnicus, New Species. 



Female: Similar to iiigriprothorax, but twice larger and dif- 

 fering as follows: The stripe along the meson of the abdomen is 

 narrower and is joined narrowly to base; the propodeum is all metal- 

 lic green except narrowly along the median carina and broadly at 

 mesal apex. The rectangular sclerite laterad of the postscutellum 

 is metallic. There is a more distinct metallic spot near tegulae. 

 There is an oblique metallic stripe across the mesopleurum from the 

 base of the caudal wing and an area of irregular shape on the meso- 

 pleurum over the cephalic coxa ; also the cephalic third of the scutum 

 is dark metallic, like the prothorax, and the scape is entirely black. 

 Otherwise the same. The third joint of the club Is nipplelike and 

 may be articulateci. 



Describeci from two females from Claremont, California (C. 

 F.Baker). 



Types: Catalogue No. 20172, U. S. N. M., the above speumens 

 on tags, a head and a caucial tibia on a slicie. 



The species iiigriprothorax has the margins of the abdomen black; 

 the parts mentioned in the original description of It are dark me- 

 tallic. 



Zagraiiimosoiiia iiiira new species. 



Female: Very similar to flavoHiieala Crawford, but the abdomen 

 bears no yellow spots, the entire caudal femur Is metallic purple ex- 

 cept at apex (only with a cinctus distad of middle In the other 

 species), the extreme base of caudal tibia is more distinctly purple, 

 the caudal coxa has more than a purple spot above at base, its basal 

 third or more Is purple, the yellow median stripe of the thorax is 

 narrower and more uniform in width, the distal stripe of the fore 

 wing Is nearly or quite complete, though fainter coudad; there is no 

 narrow longituciinal yellow stripe down parapside and axilla ; and 



