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A. MOCSÁRT 
white ; the anterior wings hyaline, brown at their base, and with a broad 
fascia of the same colour beyond the base of the stigma. Head and thorax 
very closely and strongly punctured ; the scutellum smooth, shining and 
very convex ; the postscutellum produced into a prominent, obtuse, 
conical tubercle ; the abdomen Smooth and shining ; the coxae, trochan¬ 
ters, and base of the femora, whitish. The vertex and mesothorax purple ; 
the metathorax greenish, and the abdomen with purple tints in certain 
lights. » 
Mas : Submagna, elongata, minus robusta, nitida, viridi-ænea lon- 
giusque albo-pilosa ; antennis nigris, scapo et flagelli articulo primo supra 
viridibus vel violascentibus ; macula magna, medio triangulariter producta 
orbitarum internarum et minuta temporali, genis, mandibulis ante apicem, 
collo et pronoti lateribus, metanoti dentibus postico-lateralibus et abdo¬ 
minis segmentis dorsalibus : primo supra subtusque parte basali late et 
secundo basi utrinque, coxarum apice et trochanteribus, albidis ; meso- 
noto toto cum alarum tegulis postscutelloque nigro-violaceis ; scutello 
pulchre aurantiaco ; metanoto læte-viridi-æneo ; abdominis segmentis dor¬ 
salibus : primo parte apicali anguste, secundo fere toto et reliquis supra 
subtusque, femoribus item et tibiis viridi-æneis plus minusve violaceo 
tinctis, tarsis nigris, intermediis et posticis articulo primo late albo- 
annulatis ; alis hyalinis, venis, fuscis, anticis basi et ante apicem, posticis 
apice fusco-fasciatis. — Long. 8 mm. 
Capite pronotoque supra dense crassius subrugose punctatis, illo 
facie canalicula tenui mediana longitudinali inde a stemmatibus, hoc 
marginem anticum non attingente, instructis ; antennis crassiusculis, cano- 
puberulis, articulo tertio longo, secundo ter, quarto dimidio adhuc lon¬ 
giore, genis brevibus, articulo secundo antennarum æquilongis ; pronoto 
margine postico serie punctorum transversa nulla ; mesonoto minus dense, 
pleuris multo densius subrugose punctatis ; scutello elevato, convexo, 
valde sparsim punctato ; postscutello supra foveatim impresso ; metanoti 
spatio cordiformi undique acute marginato et per costulas duas obliquas 
divergentes basales abbreviatasque in areas tres lævigatas diviso, meta¬ 
noti lateribus superne transverse costulatis ; dentibus postico-lateralibus 
longe denseque pilosis ; abdominis segmentis dorsalibus : primo lævi ac 
polito, secundo sat sparsim subtiliter, reliquis densius fortiusque punctu- 
latis ; alis apice abdominis multo brevioribus. 
Cleptideae mutilloidi Ducke (cuius plurima specimina benignitati 
et caritati auctoris debeo) colore parum similis est. 
Bolivia : Mapiri (Mus. Hung.) ; Brasilia (Smith). 
