90 HYMENOPTERA. 



lustre ; the legs metallic green, or blue ; the tarsi, apical half 

 of the antennae and the mandibles black ; wings smoky, with 

 their apical margins pale ; the abdomen, except the extreme 

 base, much more finely punctured than the head and thorax ; 

 the first and second segments of the abdomen with a central 

 raised smooth line, the apex terminated with four short acute 

 teeth. (Male.) | 



I have taken the female of this beautiful species in Hamp- i 

 shire, at Weybridge, and near Darenth Wood, where the I 

 only male I have captured occurred. Mr. Stephens used , 

 to take both sexes rather plentifully at Darenth. That C, 

 Sfoudera is the male of C. fuigida has been established by : 

 Zetterstedt ; Dahlbom has also united them in his Monograph. \ 



4. Chrysis bidentata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 947, 2. 



Fab. Ent. Syst. ii. 241, 11 ; Syst. 



Piez. p. 173, 16. \ 



Don. Brit. Ins. i. pi. 19. ' 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 77, 15. i 



St. Farg. Ann. du Muse, vii. 128, ' 



23. 

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



165, 6. 

 Dahlb. Mon. Chrys. 8, 3; Hym. ' 



Eur. ii. 257, 142. 

 Wesm. Bull. Acad. Roy. des Sc. j 

 Brux. vi. 175, 4. 

 Chrysis dimidiatay Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. 258, 15, 16; 

 Syst. Piez. p. 174, 22. 

 St. targ. Ann. du Muse, vii. 127, 20. 

 Spin. Ins. Lig. ii. 170, 15. 

 Length 2^ — 4 Hnes. Rich golden or crimson-red, some- 

 times with coppery lustre j the head, emargination of the 



