NOTES, ETC. 99 



3. Hedychrum ardens, Curtis, Brit. Ent. i. fol. 38, pi. 38. 



Shuck. Mon. Chrys. Ent. Mag. 



iv. 172, 4. 

 Wesm. Bull. Acad. Roy. des Sc. 

 Brux. vi. 170, 2. 



Length 1 — 2 J lines. Head and thorax green, or blue 

 mixed with tints of green ; the vertex, the posterior portion 

 of the prothorax above, the pro- and mesothorax, bright 

 coppery or carmine-red ; the scutellum sometimes of the same 

 colour, but frequently golden, more or less tinged with red ; 

 the legs green, rarely blue, with the tarsi rufescent; the 

 flagellum and mandibles black, the latter ferruginous at their 

 apex ; wings slightly coloured and iridescent. Abdomen very 

 glossy, bright coppery or golden-red, the colour changing in 

 different lights ; its posterior margin entire, not toothed 

 towards the base. 



This species very closely resembles some of the varieties of 

 H. lucid ulum ; it is common in many localities; at Deal, 

 Dover, and along the entire south-east coast, it is plentiful ; 

 I have bred it from bramble sticks, and suspect it is parasitic 

 upon Mimesa unicolor ; it has also been taken in the London 

 district, at Southend, Weybridge and in the New Forest. 



4. Hedychrum fervidum, St. Farg. Ann. du Muse, vii. 



122, 7. 

 Shuck. Mon. Chrys. Ent. 



Mag. iv. 172, 5. 

 Wesm. Bull. Acad. Roy. des 

 Sc. vi. 170, 5. 

 Hedychrum rutllans, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. ii. 76, 44. 



Megerl. (testeKollar,in Mus.Vienn.) 



Length 3 — 4 lines. The head, thorax beneath, the legs and 



metathorax blue ; the pro- and mesothorax and scutellum of 



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