NOTES, ETC. 101 



stroyed it as insect locality. I have taken H. roseum at 

 Birch Wood, Kent, and one specimen near Wakefield, York- 

 shire. 



Probably parasitic upon Tachytes pompiliformis, or 

 Arpactus tumidus, according to Shuckard. 



Genus Y. Omalus, Panz. 

 Body small, robust, abdomen short, wide, and ovate ; 

 deeply emarginate at the apex ; the anterior wings with the 

 marginal cell only just commenced, or rudimentary; the dis- 

 coidal cells obsolete ; claws of the tarsi serrated. 



1. Omalus auratus, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. ii. 268; Dispos. 

 4,5,1. 

 Chrysis auratUy Linn. Faun. Suec. No. 1666 ; Syst. Nat. 

 i. 948, 4. 

 Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 242, 18 ; Syst. Piez. 



p. 175, 25. 

 Panz. Faun. Germ. 51, 8. 

 Schrank, Faun. Boic. ii. 345, 2200. 

 Hedychrum auratum, Latr. Hist. xiii. 239. 



St. Farg. Ann. du Muse, vii. 12, 1. 

 Shuck. Mon. Chrys. Ent. Mag. 

 iv. 174, 7. 

 Elampus auratus^ Wesm. Bull. Acad. Roy. des Sc. 

 Brux. vi. 171, 1. 



Size 1| — 2f . Head and thorax coarsely punctured, blue or 

 green, soihetimes tinted v, ith gold ; the scape, femora and tibiae 

 green, the tarsi piceous, antennae black; abaomen bright 

 fiery red, the puncturing extremely delicate, the terminal 

 segment acuminated. 



This species is universally distributed. 



