but 1 must confess 1 cannot see any analogy, and with Tiphia 

 (PI. GG*) it has no relationship. 



The Cleptes are parasitic upon other Hymenoptera, and 

 St. Fargeau seems to think that C. semiaurata is the parasite 

 of a Tenth redo. 



It is very remarkable that there does not appear to be any 

 very marked character to distinguish the males of the two 

 species, although the females are so very dissimilar: the greatest 

 difference seems to me to be in the colour of the 3d segment 

 of the abdomen, which has much more of the ochre colour in 

 C. semiaurata than in C. nitidula, and the tibiae I believe are 

 generally more ochreous. 



1. semiaurata Linn. Panz. 51. 2. $. — splendens Fab. $. — 

 auratus Panz. 52. I. ? . 



Male bright metallic green, slightly villose : antennte black, 

 basal joint green: head and thorax coarsely punctured, faintest 

 on the disc of the latter: metathorax rugose: abdomen shining 

 deep ochre, the extremity of the 3d segment black, forming a 

 point in the middle : the following bright blue : wings slightly 

 fuscous, the stigma and nervures brown : legs fulvous, coxa? 

 and thighs green, tarsi fuscous. 



Female bright cupreous, 5 basal joints of antennae ochreous, 

 the remainder black : abdomen as in the male : wings fuscous, 

 with the base and an irregular long spot beyond the disc trans- 

 parent : legs entirely fulvous. 



Rather larger than the following: it lives in sandy places, 

 and is not uncommon in the vicinity of London in June ; 

 Mr. Paget takes it at Yarmouth ; I used to find the females in 

 gooseberry bushes in a garden, and they have been detected 

 on the horse-bean in a field near Coventry. 



2. nitidula Fab.— Curt. Brit. But. pi. 724 ? . — Panz. 106. 1 1. 

 Male bright metallic green, inclining more or less to blue 



or purple : antennae black, basal joint green, head and thorax 

 not thickly punctured ; metathorax deeply and closely punc- 

 tured : abdomen shining deep ochreous, the 3d segment, ex- 

 cepting the base and the following, bright blue, green, or 

 purple, the apex punctured, wings slightly fuscous with a 

 cloud on the disc, the nervui'es and stigma piceous: legs 

 bright green : tibiae ochreous, the four posterior often piceous, 

 excepting the tips : tarsi fuscous. 



Female. Head and thorax cupreous : prothorax ferru- 

 ginous-ochre, metathorax bright green : antennae black, 2d 

 and 3d joints ochreous : abdomen as in the male : wings with 

 a slight cloud at the stigma : legs ochreous, hinder thighs and 

 coxae piceous, tarsi fuscous at the apex. 



Taken bv Mr. Paijet on the sand hills near Yarmouth in 

 June: Mr. Rudd finds it plentiful in Yorkshire, and it occurs 

 also in the New Forest. 



Trinia g^laberrima (Pimpinella dioica), Dwarf Burnet Saxi- 

 frage, froni St. Vincent's Rocks, was communicated by G.H.K. 

 Thwaites, Esq. 



