of the ILjmenopterous rjcnera Cleptes, §'c. 453 



Parnopes carnca, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. ]>. 47 ; 

 Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 177; Dalilb.' 

 Dispos. p. 17; Hym. Europ. ii. 

 p. 385 ; Lucas, Explo. Sc. de 

 L'Alger. iii. p. 16; Cliev. Clirysid. 

 du Bassiu du Leraan, p. 127. 



Ilah. — Europe, Algeria. 



2. Parnopes elegans. 

 Parnopes eler/ans, King, Symb. Phys. Dec. v. tab. 45, 



fig. 1, $; Dahlb. Hym. Europ. ii! 



p. 382. 

 Ilah. — Ambukobl, Lower Kubia. 



3. Parnopes denticulata. 

 Parnopes denticulata, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 



^^i. p. 455, $ ; Dalilb. Hym. 



Europ. ii. p. 382. 

 Ilab. — Egypt. 



4. Parnop&s Fisclieri. 

 Parnopes Fisclieri, Spin. Aftp. Soc. Ent. France, vii. 



p. 455, $ \ Dalilb. Hym. Eur. ii. 



p. 383. 

 Hah. — Egypt. 



5. Parnopes viridis. 



Parnopes viridis, BruUe, Hist. Nat. des Ins. (St. Farg.) 



iv. p. 13, S. 

 Ilab. — Pondiclierry. 



6. Parnopes smaragdina.* 



Female. — Length 4i lines. Head and tliorax green, 

 abdomen green, with tints of blue in certain lights. Head, 

 thorax and tegulre of the wings strongly punctured, 

 the scutellura most coarsely so ; the scape of the antenna3 

 green, the flagellum black, Avith one or two of the basal 

 joints obscurely rufo-piceous. Thorax : the j)ostei'ior 

 margin of the post-scutellum trilobate, the central lobe 

 small and rounded ; Avings fusco-hyaline, darkest towards 

 their base ; legs green, with the tarsi and tibia3 within 

 rufo-testaceous. Abdomen : finely and closely punctured ; 

 on the basal segment the puuctm-es are distant at its base. 



