84 HYMENOPTERA. 



antennae bright metallic green, or blue-green ; the head and 

 prothorax strongly punctured, the metathorax coarsely so; 

 the mesothorax, scutellum and postscutellum with distant 

 shallow punctures ; the coxse and femora green, the trochan- 

 ters, tibiae and tarsi testaceous, the latter usually dusky ; the 

 flagellum black; wings sub-hyaline and iridescent; abdomen 

 shining, rufo-testaceous, with the apical margins of the third, 

 fourth and fifth segments black, with a chalybeous reflection. 

 (Male.) 



Head and thorax shining coppery or golden-red, the punc- 

 turing very similar to the other sex ; the antennas rufo-tes- 

 taceous, with seven or eight of the apical joints fuscous; the 

 wings with a dark cloud beneath the stigma and a lighter one 

 at the apex of the wings ; the legs, abdomen and ovipositor 

 rufo-testaceous; the apical segments black as in the male, 

 with a steely-blue reflection. (Female.) 



Very plentiful occasionally in May and June, running 

 quickly on plants and flowers; in numbers on the Colts 

 Foot at Old Brorapton ; very generally distributed. 



2. Cleptes nitidula, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 236, 2. 



St. Farg. Ann. du Muse, vii. 119, 



2. 

 Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 154, 2. 

 Dahlb. Exercit. Hym. 25, 2; Hym. 



Eur. ii. 13, 2. 

 Shuck. Mon. Chrys. Ent. Mag. iv. 



]59, 2. 

 Wesm. Bull. Acad. Roy. des Sc. 

 Brux. vi. 169, 2. 

 Ichneumon nitidula, Rossi, Faun. Etrus. ii. ; Fab. vi. fig. 



1,7. 

 Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 184, 211. 



