86 HYMENOPTERA. 



margin is edentate ; along the apical margin is a more or less 

 deep sulcation, in which is a row of minute fossulets ; the 

 legs moderate. 



Sect. I. The marginal cell completey the abdomen qua- 

 dindentate at the apex. 



1. Chrysis ignita, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 414, No. 1665; 

 Syst. Nat. i. 947, 1. 

 De Geer, Ins. ii. 832, 1, tab. 28, fig. 



17—21. 

 Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 241, 10 ; Syst. 



Piez. p. 173, 14. 

 Latr. Gen. Ins. iii. 317; Hist. xiii. 



238, 4. 

 Don. Brit. Ins. i. pi. 7. 

 Panz. Faun. Germ. 5, 22. 

 Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 64, 6. 

 Dahlb. Mon. Chrys. 7, 2 ; Hym. 



Eur. ii. 292, 165. 

 Shuck. Mon. Brit. Chrys. Ent. Mag. 



iv. 161, 1. 

 Wesm. Bull. Acad. Roy. des Sc. 



Brux, vi. 174, 1. 

 Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 433, 2. 

 Length 3| — 7 lines. The head and thorax strongly and 

 closely punctured, of fine blue or green, or of a mixture of 

 those colours, sometimes splashed with golden or coppery 

 effulgence ; occasionally the region of the ocelli, a transverse 

 stripe on the prothorax and the sutures of the thorax above 

 black ; the antennae, mandibles and tarsi black, the rest of 

 the legs metallic green ; the base of the antennae tinged with 



