NOTES, ETC. 91 



prothorax, the metathorax, the body beneath, and the terminal 

 segment of the abdomen, blue or green, or blue dashed with 

 golden lustre, strongly and closely punctured ; the abdomen 

 most delicately so ; legs blue, or green, with the tarsi pitchy ; 

 the apex of the abdomen with the lateral angles acute, 

 seldom produced into teeth, the centre of the margin usually 

 emarginate, seldom forming two teeth ; sometimes terminated 

 by four equi-distant obsolete teeth. 



This species is universally distributed, and may be found 

 abundantly wherever a colony of Odynerus spinipes occurs. 



5. Chrysis succincta, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 947, 3. 



Fab. Ent. Syst. ii. 241, 13; Syst. 



Piez. p. 174, 19. 

 Panz. Faun. Germ. 77, 16. 

 Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 64, 7. 

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



166, 7. 

 Dahlb. Mon. Chrys. 10, 5 ; Hym. 



Eur. ii. 26S, 149. 

 Wesm. Bull. Acad. Roy. des Sc. 

 Brux. vi. 176, 5. 

 Head and thorax of a metallic blue or green, the meso- 

 thorax red, tinted with golden lustre; prothorax with its 

 anterior margin more or less golden-red. Abdomen rich 

 crimson-red, tinged more or less with golden lustre, delicately 

 punctured, the head and thorax coarsely so ; the femora and 

 tibiae metallic green, the tarsi obscure testaceous ; the an- 

 tennae black, tinged with golden-green ; wings faintly tinted, 

 with their apical margins hyaline ; the abdomen terminated 

 by four obtuse teeth. 



This is a rare species; Mr. Dale and Mr. Rudd took i) 

 some years ago in Hampshire, and I am not aware that i' 

 has been taken out of that county, I have twice captured it. 



