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(variously placed in the bethyloid family Cleptidae or in the sub- 
family Cleptinae of the Chrysididae) . The resemblance in abdominal 
structure is especially close (see, e.g., the figure of Cleptes consimilis 
in Grandi, 1961, Fig. 2, no. 6). The major differences from Cleptes 
are in the mandibles, which are rather broad and 3 or 4-toothed 
apically, as in many Bethylidae (from which the cleptids may well 
have evolved), in the unusually long and slender scape 5 and the 
more prolonged head anterior to the eyes (although some of this 
may be the result of distortion). The elongate head and somewhat 
bulging eyes might suggest that this specimen belongs in the subfamily 
Amiseginae (variously placed in the Cleptidae or Chrysididae) ; 
however, the front has a median groove and no specialized sculpturing 
on the lower part, the mandibles are much broader than in any 
known Amiseginae, and the abdomen is relatively elongate. The 
abdomen is not ventrally concave nor otherwise as specialized as in 
Fig. 4. Procieptes carpenteri n. sp., dorsal view of type specimen. In 
fact the abdomen is twisted ventrally and forward, as in Fig. 5; in this 
figure it is shown as if it extended straight backward. Fig. 5. Same 
specimen, lateral view. 
