NOTES, ETC. 103 



intensity and brilliancy of colour ; head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured, the abdomen very delicately so, very gibbous, 

 convex, and pubescent ; the apical segment acuminated, 

 notched at its apex ; the wings with a broad fuscous band on 

 their apical margins ; the tarsi black. 



Shuckard has, for want of sufficient specimens to examine, 

 included two very distinct species under his S. bidentulum ; 

 the preceding species will at once be distinguished by its 

 having the pro- and mesothorax shining, smooth and im- 

 punctate; this species occurs in most situations and may be 

 procured by collecting perforated bramble sticks during the 

 winter months, it is parasitic upon such species of fossorial 

 insects as construct their nests in them. 



Genus YI. Elampus, Spin. 

 Head transverse, rather wider than the prothorax ; the 

 thorax truncated anteriorly and posteriorly ; the prothorax 

 with a deep suture between it and the mesothorax ; the post- 

 scutellum produced into a porrect spine, flattened above and 

 blunt at the apex ; anterior wings with the marginal cell 

 rudimentary, the discoidal cells obsolete ; the abdomen rather 

 longer than in the genus Hedychrum, very convex, and 

 truncated at the extreme apex. 



1. Elampus Panzeri, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 45. 



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



176, 1. 

 Dahlb. Hym. Eur. ii. 45, 21. 

 Chrysis Panzeri^ Fab. Syst. Piez. p. 172, 9. 



Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 63, 3. 

 Chrysis scutellaris, Panz. Faun. Germ. 51, 11. 

 Length 2^—3 lines. Head and thorax coarsely punctured, 

 shining golden-green, with tints of blue ; the scape, femora 



