BRITISH CHRYSIDID/E. 



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several of my friends have taken it, and Blackwater, on the 

 borders of Berkshire and Hampshire. 



Sp. 8. Chr. cyanea. 



Linn. F. S. 1667. S. N. 948. 5. 



Fab.S.E. 359. 11. Sp. I. 456. 14. Mant. 283. 



12. Ent. Sys. II. 241. 13. Piez. 174. 19. 

 Olivier, Ency. Meth. Ins. II. 675. 19. 

 Latr. Hist. XIII. 238. 6. Le Peletier, Ann. du 



Museum, VII. 128. 22. 

 Cuvier, Tableau Elementaire, 502. 2. 

 Panz. F. G. 51. 10. Schrank, F. B. II. 2. 345. 



2199. 

 Spinola, 1. 65. 12. Rossi, Vol. II. 8vo. 122. 845. 

 Donovan, Brit. Ent. Vol. VII. PI. 235. 



Entirely of a rich metallic blue or green, splashed with gold ; occa- 

 sionally obscure : head and thorax deeply punctured : abdomen 

 delicately so, without the central, elevated, smooth, longitudinal 

 line; the apex of the abdomen distinctly tridentate : the tarsi 

 pitchy, and the flagellum of the antennae black : the wings nearly 

 hyaline, but very slightly clouded. 



This species is common ; but I have found it only on palings 

 and worm-eaten trunks of trees. 



Section II. — The apex of the abdomen edentate. 

 A. Marginal cell complete. 



Sp. 9. Chr. ccerulipes. 



Chr. ccerulescens . Fab. Ent. Syst. Sup. 357. 9. 10. Coque- 



bert, 59. PI. 14. Fig. 5. 

 Chr. ccerulipes . Fab. Sys. Piez. 173. 13. Spin. I. 64. 5. 

 Chr. Leachii . . Stephens's Catalogue. 

 Chr. cuprea . . Rossi, Vol. II. 8vo. 126. 851. 



Entirely of a rich crimson, with the exception of the metathorax, 

 legs, and first joint of the antennas, which are of a metallic blue 

 or green: the flagellum of the antenna?, the tarsi, and nervures 

 of the wings, are black : the wings themselves clouded : head 

 and thorax coarsely punctured, and the abdomen delicately so. 

 (Length, 5 lines.) 



