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Bulletin Wisconsin Xatural History Society. [Vol. 5, No. 2. 
States. Quite recently Kieffer"^ has redescribed the species, but 
he does not mention any locality. 
The Brownsville specimens have the scutellar processes more 
approximated at the tips, but otherwise they agree well with 
Kieffer's description, and also with Lepeletier's figure, published 
in his Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Hymenopteres (PI. 38, 
fig. 5. The species is also figured in the Biologia by Cameron.f 
FAMILY CLEONYMID^. 
Chalcedectes texanus sp. nov. 
Male. Leng-th 7 mm. Bluish-metallic, with reddish cupreous 
reflections. Abdomen aeneous, hind femora more or less purplish ; base 
of all tarsi pale. Head very strongly transverse, four times as v^ide 
as thick ; seen from the front as wide as hig-h ; its color greenish, the 
antennal depression purple ; surface whitish-hairy and closely, coarsely 
punctate, but not confluently so. Occiput but faintly punctulate ; 
mandibles piceous, tridentate. Palpi piceus, the apical joint of the 
maxillary pair long and suddenly swollen at the base, apical joint of 
the labial pair triangular and flattened. Antennae black, the flagellum 
one-half longer than the scape ; first flagellar joint equal to the ring- 
joint and pedicel together ; second, third and fourth decreasing ; fifth 
and sixth quadrate ; seventh transverse ; eighth obliquely truncate. 
Malar space with a furrow, its height two-thirds the length of the eye. 
Thorax somewhat more coarsely punctured than the head ; middle 
lobe and scutellum greenish-violet, the parapsides behind blue ; pro- 
thorax blue in front and greenish on the sides. Metanotum reticulate 
medially and smooth on the sides, where there is a large distinct patch 
of white pubescence. Pleurae variegated in color, coarsely punctate 
except for the smooth posterior side of the mesopleural and the finely 
arcuately aciculated propleural furrow. Abdomen narrowly ovate, 
shining greenish-black ; margin of the first segment notched medially, 
the others entire ; second, third and fourth segments short, the fifth 
long. Legs cupreous, the reddish tint very pronounced. Posterior 
femora twice as long as thick, with four long teeth below, and another 
*Berliner Entom. Zeitschr. LXIX, p. 243 (1904). 
fBiol. Centr-Amer. Hymenoptera, PI. 5, fig. 17. 
