.EGEKllD.'E. — .i:Gi:itlA. 14,| 



Taken in several and very distant parts in Jiine; but rather a 

 scarce insect : tlie first pair were obtained by the late Mr. Fran- 

 cillon, from the west of Eiiirland ; it was afterwards found by the 

 late Mr. Cranch in Cornwall a>ul Devonshire; and I believe it has 

 been taken near Scarborough. " South Creak, near Fakenham." 

 —Rev. T. Skrimshire. " At Hastings."— J. Curtis, Esq. " Several 

 pairs in the Isle of Wight/'— i¥;-. Weaver. " Near Teignmouth, 

 Devon." — Capt. Blomcr. 



t Sp. 4. Chrysidiformis. Mis anticis subh,,alinis crorcis, margine su,M-rwr, 

 maculdqtie adjectd nigris, abdomine nigro, cingulh diiohus luteis. (E.xn alar 

 10 lin.) 



Sp. Chrysidiformis. Hiibner.—JEg. Chrysidiformis. Step/i. Cuful. 



Bluish-black: palpi black, with the tip pale fulvous: head black; clypeus 

 white ; hinder margin yellowish : thorax glossy, with a few yeUow scales and 

 a white spot at the base of the anterior wings : abdomen shining, clothed with 

 ashy-down, with the fifth and terminal segments edged with whitish: the 

 caudal tuft black, with its middle yellow : thighs blue-black ; the anterior 

 outwardly white, the tibia orange, tarsi lutescent: anterior wings saffron 

 colour, with the margins and a central spot black : with an elongate hyaline 

 patch anterior to the last, and a round one behind: posterior hyaline, with the 

 nervures, margins, and cilia, ashy-black ; a minute orange spot on the anterior 

 edge: antenna above dusky-black; beneath paler, with the base white. 

 This elegant species is nnique in Mr. Hawortlfs cabinet; he 



having purchased the only indigenous example out of the collection 



of the late Mr. Francillon, who formerly assured him that he caught 



the specimen in a thick grove himself. 



Sp. 5 Cynipiformis. Platk U. f. 2. $ .—Alis fii/ulinis, marginibtis renis(/nr 

 fuscis, nnticaruin mdculu lunari croceft, ubdomine nigra, ciugulis tribus nut 

 qidnque flavis ; famina barb/ijlavfi. (Exp. alar. 9 — 11 lin.) 



Se. Cynipiformis. Ochsenluimer. — iEg. Cynipiformis. Steph. Catal. 



Blue-black ; head very glossy, with a snowy spot before the eyes, the hinder 

 margin yellow : palpi yellow, with the sides black : thorax shining, with a 

 lateral and longitudinal yellow line : abdomen with a basal streak, three equi- 

 distant belts, and the caudal tuft yellow; the latter sometimes with a few 

 black hairs at the sides ; femora blue-black, the anterior outwardly yellow : 

 tibia yellow, with a cyaneous-black ring : tarsi yellow : anterior wings above 

 with a yellow spot at the base ; the nervures, a transverse discoidal line, and 

 margins, brown, glossed with blue and tawny; the outer edge of the discoidal 

 line croceous ; beneath with the apex glossed witli violet and fulvous; the 

 margins pale-tawny ; posterior with a niinnte lunule, the nervures and 

 margins dusky-black : antcnnjE bhic-black. with tin- ba.sal joint yellow beneath. 

 Nfale differs in being less, having the antcnnii suhpeilinalcd iiUernally; the 



