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line with their bodies. A number of males thus suspended 

 were found on a dead branch of hawthorn. They were 

 killed by chloroform, and remained thus attached after 

 death." The females burrow in old posts or rails, but 

 Smith says they often employ ready-formed burrows, flori- 

 somne frequently using straws and reeds. Chrysig cyanea 

 and ignita have both been bred from their nests. 



C. florisomne, Linn. — Elongate, black, head and thorax 

 closely punctured in the (J, and rather densely clothed with 

 long brownish-grey hairs, in the ? somewhat shining, the 

 former with the vertex very large and quadrate ; mandibles 

 grooved in both sexes, simple at the apex in the S , biden- 

 tate in the ? , and densely clothed in that sex with golden 

 hairs on their inner margins, labrum in the ? shining and 

 prominent, antennis in the c? with the third to seventh 

 joints angulated beneath, in the 9 short, simple, and sub- 

 clavate ; wings slightly clouded ; abdomen elongate deeply 

 punctured, incurved at the apex in the ^ and clothed with 

 long grey hairs, and with shorter whitish hairs laterally at 

 the apices of the segments, simple in the ? , with a narrow 

 apical band of white adpressed hairs on each segment, 

 seventh segment in the ^ with two somewhat quadrate 

 apical teeth with a deep impression between them, segments 

 beneath with the second produced into a large tubercle, 

 directed towards the base, flattened and somewhat exca- 

 vated on its lower surface, third excavated, and very 

 shining, fourth densely clothed with pale hairs, fifth hairy 

 at the base, its apex fringed with long bent hairs, each hair 

 knotted at intervals except near the base, sixth shining, 

 excavated, its apex rounded, seventh shining, with only a 

 very short homy apical portion, eighth pointed at the apex, 

 armature with the stipitcs apically dilated in a somewhat 

 triangular form and fringed with remote hairs ; ventral 

 brush of $ dense, yellowish- white; legs clothed with pale 

 hairs. 



L. 10 mm. 



