EUCHIUEU8. PAEXOPES. 495 



depressions covered with white pubescence ; the apical margin of 

 the abdomen with stout, mostly bluntly pointed short spines inter- 

 mixed with smaller sharper ones ; the anteapical fovese few in 

 number, and the broad apical margin thickly punctured. (After 

 Qameron.} 



Length, $ 10 mm. 



Hob. Eecorded so far only from Deesa (Nurse). 



Subfamily PARNOPIN^. 



This subfamily is distinguished from the Chrysidince, which it 

 much resembles, by the remarkably elongate maxilla) 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 Chrt/sidina 1 . 



The subfamily contains only one genus, Parnopes. 



Genus PARNOPES. 

 Pnraopes, Lair. Free. Cur. Gen. Ins. 1796, p. 120. 



Type. P. carnea, Fabr., Europe. 



Range. Both hemispheres. 



$ . Head subtriangular ; the frontal cavity shallow ; mandibles 

 narrow, bidentate at apex ; clypeus broad, convex ; antennae 

 moderately long, somewhat thick ; eyes large ; vertex and occiput 

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

 Thorax somewhat massive, slightly convex above ; mesopleurae 

 produced beneath, slightly convex and not grooved ; scutellum 

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

 somewhat triangular lamina above, the apex of which 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 uervure is only 

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

 length, trochauters 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. 



<S . Similar ; abdomen with 4 visible segments. 



577. Parnopes viridis, JSmlle, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym. iv (J846),p. 13, cJ; 

 Buys*. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x (1896), p. 478, pi. lii, tig. M, 

 pi. iv, figs. 5-11, & pi. v, fig. 9. 



$ . Metallic green, with shades of blue on the tegula?, the 

 scutellum, postscutellum and the abdomen posteriorly; densely 



