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Family LXVII. CLEONYMID.E. 

 Subfamily I. Chalceoectin/e. 



Genus CHALCEDECTES Walker. 

 Chalcedectes histrionica (WestwooJ). 

 Pohjchro'ina hiMrionica Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 141 ; PI. 26, f. C>. 

 Pohichroraaimmhi>^fnomcimi\)ix\\i\'^OYYQ, ('at. HyiiL, V., 1898, p. 18G. 

 Brazil : Santarem. Two specimens. 



Chalcedectes maculicornis Walker. 

 Chalcedectes macidicornis Walker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), X., 1853, p. 47, 9. 

 ChaJcodectes macidicornis Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 180. 

 Brazil : Para ; Santarem. Two specimens. 



Chalcedectes regalis (Westwood). 

 I'uhjchroma regalis Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 141 ; Pi. 26, f. 7. 

 I'lili/chromatium regale Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 186. 

 Brazil : Amazon (Bates). 



Chalcedectes sedecimdendatus (Westwood). 

 Pulyckroma sedcchndenfata Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 141. 

 Pol ychroviatiiivi sedeciradentatmn'DaWa Torre, (.-at. Hym., V., 1898, p. 186. 



Brazil. 



Chalcedectes septemdentatus (Westwood). 



Polycliroma septeindentaia Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 142. 



Polychromatium sepiemdentatum. Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 186. 



Brazil : Para (Bates). 



Chalcedectes annulipes, sp. nov. 



(Plate XXXVI., Fig. 2.) 



Female. — Length about 7 mm. Metallic purplish and green, with cui)reous 

 tingings, a more decided green spot on the anterior middle of the pronotum and 

 on the disk of the scutellura, the legs metallic greenish and seneous, the hind 

 coxa3 more bluish posteriorly, the three basal joints of the tarsi and a broad band 

 on the hind tibiae at base, white, the terminal joints of tarsi brown or brown 

 black. The wings are hyaline, the veins light brown, the subcostal vein yellow- 

 ish towards apex. The swollen hind femora are armed with about thirteen 

 or fourteen minute teeth. The abdomen is conic-ovate, a little longer than the 

 head and thorax united, depressed. 



Brazil : Chapada, in January ; Corumba. in May. 



