NORTH AMERICAN HTMENOPTERA. 211 



Third abdominal segment with a submarginal series of more or less deep 

 and rounded pits or broad foveolse, contained in a groove or declivity, 

 which causes the surface of the marginal area to be uneven with and below 

 the general surface of the segment. Discoidal cellule (except in C. verti- 

 caiis Patton, and therefore generally) formed by the absolute nervures 



and entirely closed ClirysidiilSC. 



" Maxillse and labium abnormal, ligula and process of maxillce very long, ex- 

 tended into a slender filiform beak, resembling the proboscis of Bees, bent 

 back under the thorax in repose." [Dahlbom] Discoidal cellule formed 

 only by indications of the nervures, a broad deep submarginal groove on 

 each side of the apical half of the last segment of the tergum, without 

 pits. Segments of abdomen, '^ 4, 9 3 Parnopinse. 



Sub-family— CLEPTIN.^. 



CL,EPTES Latr. 

 Gen. Cr. et Ins. iv, 44. 



Color metallic green, blue, or purple, or with reflections of all these colors. 

 Head and thorax the same general color as the abdomen. 

 General color of the body blue, with purple and green reflections, femur dull, 

 with little of the metallic color of the body, tibia with little or no me- 

 tallic, about as in the tarsi. Wings evenly infuscated piirpnrata. 



General color of the body emerald-green, with little or no purple or blue, ex- 

 cept on the postscutellum. Femur and tibia strongly colored with me- 

 tallic green, in contrast with the tarsi, which is luteous at base, fuscous 

 apically. Wings subhyaline. 



Face and abdomen with golden reflections alieiia. 



Face and abdomen without distinct golden reflections iiisperata. 



Head and thorax green, the abdomen metallic black with some slight green, 



purple and blue reflections Provaiicheri. 



Color elegant metallic ruby and golden with some green (appearing generally red). 



speciosa. 



Cleptes piirpurata Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vii, 1878-79, Monthly 

 Proc. p. 10, May, 1879. 



Cleptes americana Cresson, loc. cit. 



The collection contains five specimens of the larger form {purpurata) 

 7-6 mm. long, from Vancouver's Island (Mr. Cresson's type), Washing- 

 ton Territory and Southern California ; nine specimens of the smallest 

 form {americana), 5.5 mm. long from Nevada, and three specimens of 

 the amalgamating form, intermediate in size, from Washington Territory. 

 Otherwise all these forms do not differ. S . 9 . 



Cleptes aliena Patton, Can. Ent. vol. xi, p. 66, April, 1879. 

 There is one male specimen from Montana in the collection which 

 agrees with Mr. Patton's description almost exactly, except that the tarsi 

 are luteous, fuscous only at the apex, the posterior tibiae only, with black 



