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The only British specimen of this splendid insect is in the 

 British Museum. I do not know its locality. It is a common 

 species in the South of France and Italy. 



Sp. 10. Chr. Leachii. 



Face and occiput blue : vertex green : prothorax, mesothorax, and 

 scutellum, of a rich golden red, with their sutures playing into a 

 deep blue-green : metathorax blue : abdomen, with the first 

 segment, of a golden green, playing into blue; the second and 

 third, as far as its transverse ridge, of a rich golden red, with a 

 centrah elevated, longitudinal, blue line passing down the second ; 

 the apical portion of the third segment blue : the femorte, tibiae, 

 and first joint of the antennae, of a golden green ; the flagellum of 

 the latter black : the tarsi piceous : the wings hyaline : the head 

 and thorax are deeply punctured, and the abdomen delicately so. 

 (Length, 2 lines.) 



This very beautiful species stands as Chrysis nitidula ? in 

 the collection of the British Museum ; but Fabricius having 

 described one by that name from America, I have altered it to 

 the name of a gentleman, who deservedly stands high in the 

 estimation of all naturalists, and especially of entomologists. 



Sp. 11. Chr. Austriaca. 



Fab. Piez. 173. 15. Le Peletier, Ann. du Mus. VII. 



128. 28. 



Chr. refulgens? . Spinola, Ins. Lig. I. 8. 4; 11. 170. 16. 



Very pubescent : head, several of the basal joints of the antennae, 

 above, thorax, legs, excepting the tarsi, which are black, either 

 blue or green, variously intermingled, and occasionally splashed 

 with gold : the wings subfuscous ; the nervures piceous : post- 

 scutellum and metathorax gibbous : abdomen edentate at its 

 extremity, and of a rich golden red, varying in intensity and 

 metallic refulgence ; it is coarsely punctured, chiefly on the sides, 

 with a central, smooth, longitudinal carina. (Length, 4 — 5 lines.) 



This is apparently a rare species ; in general external habit, 

 it greatly resembles the larger specimens of the 1st and 2d Vars. 

 of the Chr. ignita, and might therefore be easily mixed with 

 that species unless the apex of the abdomen be examined. It 

 lias occurred in the vicinity of London ; one of my own speci- 

 mens was taken at Hampstead, and a second at Bexley, in 

 Kent. 



