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Family LXVII. CLEONYMID^. 

 Subfamily I. CHALCEDECTiNiE. 



Genus CHALCEDECTES Walker. 

 Chalcedectes histeionica (Westwood). 



PolycJiToma Jiistrionica Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 141 ; PI. 26, f. 6. 

 Polychroraatium histrionicum Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 186. 

 Brazil : Santarem. Two specimens. 



Chalcedectes mactjlicoenis Walker. 

 Chalcedectes macuHcornis Walker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), X., 1853, p. 47, 9. 

 Chalcodectes macuUcornis Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 186. 

 Brazil : Para ; Santarem. Two specimens. 



Chalcedectes regalis (Westwood). 

 Folychroma regalis Westwood, Thesam-. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 141 ; PI. 26, f. 7. 

 Polychromatium regale Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 186. 

 Brazil : Amiazon (Bates). 



Chalcedectes sedecimdendatus (Westwood). 

 Poly chroma sedecimdentata Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 141. 

 Polychromatium sedecimdentatum Dsdla, Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 186. 



Brazil. 



Chalcedectes septemdentatus (Westwood). 



Polychroma septemdentata Westwood, Thesaur. ent. Oxon., 1874, p. 142. 



Polychromatium sepiemdentatum Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V., 1898, p. 186. 



Brazil : Para (Bates). 



Chalcedectes annxjlipes, sp. nov. 



(Plate XXXVI., Fig. 2.) 



Female. — Length about 7 mm. Metallic purplish and green, with cupreous 

 tingings, a more decided green spot on the anterior middle of the pronotum and 

 on the disk of the scutellum, the legs metallic greenish and seneous, the hind 

 coxse m.ore bluish posteriorly, the three basal joints of the tarsi and a broad band 

 on the hind tibise at base, white, the terminal joints of tarsi brown or brown 

 black. The wings are hyaline, the veins light brown, the subcostal vein yellow- 

 ish towards apex. The swollen hind femora are armed with about thirteen 

 or fourteen minute teeth. The abdomen is conic-ovate, a little longer than the 

 head and thorax united, depressed. 



Brazil : Chapada, in January ; Corumba, in May. 



