CLEPTES. -117 



Abdomeu (fig. 148) pseudosessile, more or less transverse at 

 base, either convex above and below (Cleptuue), or convex above 

 and concave below (remaining subfamilies), oval, roundly sub- 

 quadrate, elongate, with the sides parallel, or broad at base with 

 the sides (sometimes only sides of the apical segment) convergent 

 postei'iorly. In only two subfamilies the abdomen has more than 

 three visible segments, the remaining segments being highly 

 contractile, tubular, and generally only in tlie $ partially exserted. 



The Chrysidida3 may for our limited fauna be conveniently 

 divided into four subfamilies characterized as follows : — 



Key to the Subfamilies. 



a. Abdomen convex both above and below . . Glejjtiiue^ p. 417. 

 h. Abdomen convex above, concave below. 



a . Claws of the tarsi dentate Ellanipince, p. 418. 



b'. Claws of the tarsi simple, not dentate. 



(r. Mouth-parts, maxillae, and labium 



short, not exserted in repose ; 2 



& c? with three visible segments . . ijhrysidince, p. 430. 

 Jr. Mouth-parts, maxillte, and labium 

 remarkably long, exserted, in re- 

 pose folded beneath the thorax 

 as in many of the Apiclai ; § with 

 three, c? with fourvisible segments. Pcii-nopiaa;, p. 495. 



Subfamily CLEPTIN^. 



The Gleptiiue comprise two genera, Clejites, Latr., and Hetero- 

 coslia, Dahlb. No representative of either has, so far as I am 

 aware, been recorded from \\ithin our limits, but species of Cl-ptea 

 very probably, and of HetcrDcceJia possibly, may be discovered in 

 the mingling of PakTcarctic with Indo-Malayan forms occurring in 

 Northern India and at high elevations further south and east : I 

 give, therefore, diagnoses of both genera. 



Koj to the Genera. 



a. A])ical abdominal segment unarmed, not 



dentate Cleptes, p. 417. 



b. Apical abdorainiil segment dentate IIeteroccelia, p. 418. 



Genus CLEPTES. 

 Cleptes, Latr. Hist. Nat. Crud. Ins. iii (1802), p. 316. 



Type, C. semiauratus, Linn., from Europe. 



Ramje. Both hemispheres. 



$ (S . Head transverse, globose ; occiput transverse, as broad as 

 the front of the pronotum, vertex and front convex ; face sHglitly 

 concave, but no regular facial cavity ; anteiniae moderately long 

 and thick, cylindrical ; mandibles short, broad, tridentate at apex. 

 Thorax: the pronotum subcylindrical, compressed, shaped like a neck, 



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