174 SHUCKARD ON THE 



sometimes lost it amongst the short grass at the roots of furze, 

 whither I have also traced these insects. I took a solitary 

 specimen at the beginning of August, on the umbels of the 

 Pastinacca, at Birch Wood, in Kent. 



Sect. II. Abdomen gibbous, and emarginate nervures abruptly 

 terminated. 



Sp. 7. Hed. auratum. 



Latr. Hist. XIII. 239. Le Pelet.Ann. du Mus. 7. 1 2. 1 . 



Chrysis aurata . Linn. F. S. 1666. S. N. 948. 4. 



Id. id. . Fab. S. E. 359. 10. Sp, I. 456. Fig. 13. 



if] ant. 284. 16. Ent. Sys. 242. 18. 

 Id. id. . Piez. 175. 25. Olivier, Ency. Meth. 



Ins. II. 675. 18. 

 Id. id. . Pans. F. G. 51. 8. Rossi, 8vo. V. II. 



121. 844. 

 Id. id. . A. Schrank, F. B. II. 2. 345. 2200. 



Head and thorax very coarsely punctured ; the abdomen extremely 

 minutely : the terminal segment much acuminated, and the entire 

 abdomen very gibbous : the head, basal joints of the antennae, 

 legs, excepting the four last joints of the tarsi, which are piceous, 

 and venter of a rich blue, or green, sometimes, but rarely, with 

 some golden splashes : the abdomen of a very vivid and fiery 

 red, the disc of its dorsal portion not unfrequently aeneous or 

 black. (Length, 1 J — 3 lines.) 



This is doubtlessly the most common species of the genus. 

 It is generally found settling upon the leaves of shrubs, and, 

 like its congeners, generally rolls itself up into a ball upon the 

 approach of danger, and thus, unexpectedly falling, it contrives 

 to escape. I found it common in July, on the umbels of the 

 parsnip, and upon a currant-bush infested by an aphis in a mar- 

 ket garden in Battersea-fields ; to the latter it doubtlessly 

 resorted for the honey secreted by the aphis. 



Sp. 8. Hed. bidentulum. 



Le Pelet. de St. Fargeau, An. du Mus. VII. 121. 3. 



Hed. imperiale . . . Leach, MSS. Stephens, Catalogue. 

 391. 5283. Curt. Guide. 657. 5. 



