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Length 3 lines. Head black with a coppery tinge, in 

 some examples with a green or blue reflection on the face ; 

 the two first joints of the flagellum and the scape rufous ; the 

 latter usually, and sometimes the former also, of a dark 

 bronze tint above ; finely but not closely punctured. Thorax : 

 prothorax rufo-testaceous, the mesothorax black, with a 

 bronze tint, both slightly punctured ; the scutellum, post- 

 scutellura and metathorax metallic green or blue, the latter 

 rugose ; the intermediate and posterior coxae and femora dark 

 bronze-black, paler in some examples ; the legs otherwise 

 rufo-testaceous ; the wings fusco-hyaline and iridescent, the 

 tegulag rufo-piceous. Abdomen shining rufo-testaceous, 

 with the apical margin of the third segment and the two fol- 

 lowing entirely black, with a steel-blue reflection; ovipositor 

 exserted, testaceous. (Female.) 



The male I do not know. 



Readily distinguished at once by its rufo-testaceous pro- 

 thorax ; it is certainly a very local species, but has been taken 

 in the New Forest by the Rev. Mr. Rudd, and also in 

 Suffolk; I once took a specimen near Lowestoft in July, 

 also received one from Loch Rannoch in Scotland. 



Genus II. Chrysis, Linn. 

 Head transverse, as wide as the thorax ; the antennte 13- 

 jointed in both sexes ; the thorax truncated anteriorly and 

 posteriorly, the metathorax with a tooth on each side ; the 

 anterior wings with one marginal cell, which is complete in 

 the majority of the species, in the others it is more or less 

 open at the extremity; the first and second discoidal cells 

 complete, the claws of the tarsi simple. Abdomen consist- 

 ing of three segments, the apical margin of the terminal one 

 toothed ; the number of teeth various ; in many species the 



