164 SHUCK ARD ON THE 



the varieties of the C. ignita, a distinct species, and why I 

 treat those merely as varieties. I may refer to my observa- 

 tions under that species for some reasons ; others are, the 

 minutely punctured abdomen, its invariably carmine pink colour, 

 and the coppery refulgence, always in some degree present, of 

 the prothorax and scutellum. I have much pleasure in dedi- 

 cating this elegant species to my kind friend the Rev. G. T. 

 Rudd, he having first attracted my attention to it by some 

 splendid specimens from the New Forest. His claims upon 

 entomologists for his discoveries in the obscure families of 

 the Staphylinidce and of the Ichneumones adsciti, justify 

 also a departure from the rigid rules of scientific nomenclature, 

 which are but too frequently sinned against to record merely a 

 private friendship. This species has occurred near London, 

 and in the New Forest, Hampshire. 



Sp. 3. Chr. fulgida. 



Linn. F. S. 1699. S. N. 948. 7. 



Fab. Sp. I. 455. 7. Mant. 283. 7. Ent. Sys. II. 



240. 8. Piez. 172. 11. 

 Coquebert, 59. PI. 14. 6. 

 Olivier, Ency. Met. Ins. II. 673. 9. 

 Latreille, Hist. XIII. 237. 2. 

 he Peletier, Ann. du Museum, VII. 126. 13. 

 Panz. F. G. 79. 15. Spinola, I. 64. 4. 

 Schrank, F. B. II. 2. 343. 2194. 



Head, first joint of antennas, thorax, and first segment of abdomen, 

 of a metallic green, playing into blue, with occasionally bright 

 golden spottings ; all these colours varying in almost every indi- 

 vidual ; second and third segments of the abdomen of a golden 

 red, sometimes obscured, the terminal teeth the same as in my 

 Var. 2 of Chr. ignita : venter green : wings fuscous, very slightly 

 iridescent ; nervures piceous : legs metallic green or blue : tarsi 

 and flagellum of antennae black : head, thorax, and abdomen, 

 very much and deeply punctured, the latter having a central, 

 longitudinal, smooth, elevated line. (Length, 4| — 5j lines ; ex- 

 pansion of wings, 6| — 7i lines.) 



This species has occurred at Combe, Darenth, Birch 

 Wood, and Bexley ; Mr. Walker has taken it near South- 

 gate ; Mr. Ingall, at Camberwell ; and Mr. F. Smith, at Black- 

 water, Hampshire. 



