No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 515 



at base and apex, blue ; wings hyaline, venation pale, the marginal 

 vein about six times as long as the postmarginal, the latter twice 

 as long as the stigmal, stigmal vein with a slight process ; abdo- 

 men smooth and impunctate, except for a scaly punctuation at 

 the sides. 



Reared from timothy grass infested by Isosoma, at the Experi- 

 ment Station in New Haven. Bred from oak galls. 



Callimome Spinola. 

 Torymus Dalman. 



C. bedeguaris (Linnaeus). Torymus magniftcus Osten 

 Sacken. 



Female: length 4 mm. or a little longer. Male: length 3.5 

 mm. Thorax green or bluish green, collar with a purplish red 

 spot near its junction with the head; abdomen blue or greenish 

 at base, purplish and coppery toward tip, exserted portion of 

 ovipositor 5-6 mm. long. 



Bred from the root gall of the rose produced by Rlwdites 

 radicum, also from R. bicolor, etc. 



*C. brevicauda Osten Sacken. C. sackeni Ashmead. 



Female: length 3.5 mm. Male: length 3 mm. or slightly 

 longer. Mostly bluish green; anterior coxae yellow, with a 

 green spot near the base, tarsi reddish yellow ; abdomen with red- 

 dish or coppery reflections, exserted portion of ovipositor about 

 1.5 mm. long. 



Reared from the galls of Diastrophus nebulosus on blackberry 

 stems. 



*C. flavicoxa Osten Sacken. 



Female: length about 3 mm.; mostly coppery green; tarsi 

 yellow, hind coxae yellow, except at base, where they are bright 

 green ; anterior wings with a slight shade of yellow in the middle ; 

 anterior half of abdomen yellow, remainder of abdomen purplish 

 coppery, exserted portion of ovipositor 2.5 mm. long. 



Bred from the galls of Rhodites radicum. 

 C. advena Osten Sacken Syntomaspis. 



Female: length about 3 mm. Male: length about 2 mm. 

 Mostly greenish blue; head punctate; thorax punctate; femora 

 greenish or bluish, tibiae of female yellow, posterior pair infus- 



