88 HYMENOPTERA. 



2. Chrysis Ruddii, Shuck. Mon. Chrys. Ent. Mag. iv. 



163, 2. 



Length 4 — 4J lines. The head and thorax green, generally- 

 varied with dashes of blue ; the vertex, scutellum and some- 

 times the tegulae with a golden or coppery lustre ; the legs 

 green, with more or less of golden effulgence ; the tarsi, man- 

 dibles and antennae black; the scape and the base of the 

 flagellum with metallic lustre. The puncturing of the head 

 and thorax as in C. ignita. Abdomen of a rich crimson 

 carmine, or inclining to bright copper colour; very finely and 

 very closely punctured ; the extreme base of the abdomen 

 strongly punctured ; the puncturing so fine and close as to 

 render the abdomen opaque, wanting entirely the bright 

 lustre of the preceding species ; having a longitudinal cen- 

 tral carina, terminated by four teeth ; the teeth less acute than 

 in the C. ignita; the wings as in that species. 



Although this species closely resembles the preceding, 

 still, although its differences are slight, they are constant ; it 

 is always more highly coloured than C. ignifa;- and the 

 puncturing of the abdomen, which is as fine as dust, at once 

 distinguishes it. 



This species is local ; it was first taken in the New Forest; 

 I have found it near London, but raiely ; it also occurs at 

 Dover, Sandgate, and Isle of Wight, but always sparingly ; 

 I once bred a few from bramble sticks. 



3. Chrysis fulgida, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 415, No. 1669; 



Syst. Nat. i. 948, 7. (Female.) 

 Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 240, 8; Syst. 



Piez. 172,n. 

 Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 237, 2. 

 Schrank, Faun. Boic. ii. 343, 2194. 

 Panz. Faun. Germ. 79, 15. 



