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depressions covered with white pubescence ; the apical margin of 

 the abdomen with stout, mostly bluntly pointed short spine? inter- 

 mixed witli smaller sharper ones ; the anteapical fovea- few in 

 number, and the broati apical margin thickly punctured. {After 

 Cameron.) 



Length, $ 10 mm. 



Hah. Eecorded so far only from Deesa {Nurse). 



Subfamily PARNOPIN^E. 



This subfamily is distinguished from the Chrijsidina, whic-h ifc 

 much resembles, by the remarkably elongate maxilhe and ligula 

 which, as a rule, are in repose folded back beneath the thorax ; 

 the labial and maxillary palpi are one- or two-jointed : and the 

 stigmata of the median segment are placed above the produced 

 posterior lateral angles, and not beneath as in the Chrysulino-. 



The subfamily contains only one genus, Pamopes. 



Genus PARNOPES. 

 Paruopes, Latr. Free. Car. Gen. Ins. 1790, p. 12G. 



Type. P. carnea, Fabr., Europe. 

 Range. Both hemisphex'es, 



2 . Head subtriangular ; the frontal cavity shallow ; mandibles 

 narrow, bidentate at apex : clypeus broad, convex ; anteunse 

 moderately long, somewhat thick ; eyes large ; vex'tex and occiput 

 broad ; the ocelli well-formed and distinct, but not very prominent. 

 Thorax somewhat massive, slightly convex above ; mesopleura) 

 produced beneath, slightly convex and not grooved ; scutellum 

 broad, somewhat flat, trapezoidal; postscutellum with a tabular, 

 somewhat triangular lamina above, the apex of ^hich points 

 backwards and overhangs the median segment ; median segment 

 truncate posteriorly, the posterior lateral angles strongly produced. 

 Wings of moderate size ; fore wing with a complete medial and 1st 

 submedial cell, an incomplete 2nd submedial and radial cell, and 

 a discoidal cell of which the upper and outer nervure is only 

 indicated ; cubital cells entirely absent. Legs slender, of moderate 

 length, trochanters one-jointed, claws simple. Abdomen with 

 3 visible segments, broad, convex above, concave below, the ante- 

 rior lateral angles of the basal segment prominent, the posterior 

 margin of the 3rd segment entire or at most denticulate, above 

 medially shortly carinate, with a slight depression on either side of 

 the carina. 



cJ . Similar ; abdomen with 4 Ansible segments. 



o77. Parnopes viridis, i?rj<//«, Hist. Kat. Ins. Hym. iv (1846), p. 13,,^; 

 Buyss. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x (1896), p. 478, pi. iii. liir. 1-!, 

 j)l. iv, tigs. 5-11, & pi. v, %. 9. 



$ . Metallic green, with shades of blue on the teguhc, the 

 scutellum, postscutellum and the abdomen posteriorly; densely 



