NOTES, ETC. 97 



Genus IV. Hedychrum, Latr. 

 The head transverse, thorax oblong quad)'ate, rather nar- 

 rowed in front, truncated anteriorly and posteriorly, the 

 metathorax with a tooth on each side ; the anterior wings 

 with a marginal cell nearly completed in some species, but 

 only commenced in others ; the two discoidal cells faintly 

 traced in some species, but totally obliterated in others ; with 

 a tooth in the middle of the claws of the tarsi. Abdomen 

 short and convex, rounded behind. 



1. Hedychrum lucidulum, Latr. Hist. Nat. xiii. 239, 2. 



St. Farg. Ann. du Muse, vii. 



122, 9. 

 Shuck. Mon. Chrys. Ent. 



Mag. iv. 171, 2. 

 Dahlb. Hym. Eur. ii. 78, 



45. 

 Panz. Faun. Germ. 51, 5. 

 Wesm. Bull. Acad. Roy. 

 des Sc. Brux. vi. 170, 3. 

 Chrysis hicidula, Fab. Syst. Piez. p. 174, 21. 



Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 64, 8. 

 Medychrum regium, St. Farg. Ann. du Muse, 7, 122, 4. 

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



171, 1. 

 Wesm. Bull. Acad. 5. 

 Dahlb. Hym. Eur. ii. 79. 

 Chrysis regia, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 175, 26. 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 51, 9. 

 Sphex nohiliSf Scop. Ent. Carn. 792 ? 

 Length 2| — 3| lines. The head, thorax and legs blue ; the 

 1862. H 



