hymenoptera. 277 



3. Crocisa nitidula. B.M. 



Melecta nitidula, Fahr. Syst, Piez. p. 386. 2. 

 Crocisa nitidula, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ins. iv. 172. 



St. Fare/. Hym.W. 448. 1. 

 Crocisa pulchella, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. p. 454. t. T4. 



Hab. Amboina ; New Holland (Richmond River). 



4. Crocisa splendidula. B.M. 

 Crocisa splendidula, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 449. 2. 



Hab. South Africa. 



5. Crocisa emarginata. B.M. 

 Crocisa emarginata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 449. 3. 



Hab. Port Natal. 



6. Crocisa lamprosoma. B.M. 



Crocisa lamprosoma, Boisd. Voy. de VAstr. p. 653. t. 12. f. 4. 

 Crocisa Novae-Hollandiae, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 450. 4. 



Hab. Vanikoro ? Hunter River, AustraUa. 



7. Crocisa ramosa. B.M. 



Crocisa ramosa, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 451. 5. 



Brulle, Hist. Nat. II. Canar. ii. 89. 40. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 212. t. 10. f. 1. 

 Crocisa orbata, St. Farg. Hym. ii. 452. 6 (var. ?). 



Hab. France; Albania; Canary Islands; Algeria. 



8. Crocisa decora. B.M. 

 Crocisa decora, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. new ser. ii. p. 41. 

 Hab. North China. (R. Fortune, Esq.) 



9. Crocisa picta. B.M. 



Female. Length 7 lines. — Black, the face and cheeks covered 

 with a pale blue pubescence ; the margin of the vertex has a 

 fringe of pale blue pubescence, and the thorax an interrupted 

 line on the collar ; a round spot on each side of the scutellum at 

 its base, a line on the prothorax reaching the middle of the disk, 

 and a round spot on each side of bright blue pubescence ; a 

 large spot of the same beneath the wings, a smaller one on the 

 breast, and all the tibise and tarsi covered with pubescence of the 

 same colour ; the wings dark fuscous and having a violet irides- 



