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3. Cleptes fasciata. 



Clcptcs fasciata, Dalilb. Hym. Eur. ii. p. 12. 

 JIab. — Brazil. 



4. Cleptes ignita. 



Iclineinnon ifjnitus, Fabr. Ent. Sjst. ii. p. 184. 

 Clcptcs ignita, Fabr. Sjst. Picz. p. 155 ; Dalilb. Ilym. 



Eur. ii. p. 18. 

 JIab. — Barbary; Italy; Austria. 



5. Cleptes aurata. 



Cleptes aurata, Dalilb. Hym. Eur. ii. p. 20. 

 Hub. — Turkey. 



6. Cleptes orientalis. 



Cleptes orientalis, Dalilb. Hym. Eur. ii. p. 20. 

 Ilab. — T urkey . 



7. Cleptes Aurora* 



Female. — Lengtb 4 lines. Variegated witli blue, purple 

 and green ; the scutellum of a reddish-orange ; the meta- 

 thoracic spines, the base of the abdomen, and the basal 

 joint of the intermediate and posterior tarsi, white : the 

 anterior wings hyaline, brown at their base, and with a 

 broad fascia of the same colour beyond the base of the 

 stigma. Head and thorax very closely and strongly punc- 

 tured ; the scutellum smooth, shining and very convex ; 

 the post-scutellum produced into a prominent, obtuse, 

 conical tubercle ; the abdomen smooth and shining ; the 

 coxte, trochanters, and base of the femora beneath, 

 whitish. The vertex and mesothorax purple ; the meta- 

 tliorax greenish, and the abdomen with purple tints in 

 certain lights. 



Hab. — Ega (Brazil). 



Fam. PARNOPIDiE, Dahlb. 

 Genus Paenopes, Fabr. 



1. Parnopes carnea. 



Chrijsis carnea, Fabr. Syst. Eiitom. p. 357 (1775) ; 

 Ent. Syst. ii. p. 240 ; Rossi, Faun. 

 Etrus. ii. p. 75, tab. viii. fig. 5 (1790). 



