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named it in case further observation should confirm it as a 

 species ; Var. 4 was captured at Yarm, in Yorkshire, by the 

 Rev. G. T. Rudd, who tells me it is common there, where it 

 occurs amongst grass, and that all are exactly alike ; its dark 

 colour is remarkable ; it is evidently the Chrysis cenea of 

 Panzer and Fabricius. Why I treat all these as varieties of 

 one species is, because the two which differ most essentially 

 in habit I captured within a hundred yards of each other, and 

 observed they had precisely the same habits, and because 

 their differences are but a trifling degree wider than those I 

 detect in my series of the Hedychrum auratum. 



Genus V. — Elampus, Spinola. 



Head and thorax as in the preceding, with the exception of the 

 scutellum heing produced posteriorly into a porrect spine, which 

 is plane above : abdomen rather more elongate than the second 

 section of the preceding genus, but above, convex, not gibbous, 

 but like it, emarginate at its extremity : superior wings, with 

 merely the commencement of a radial nervure, which terminates 

 very abruptly ; and all, excepting the basal nervures of the wings, 

 totally obsolete, or their course very slightly coloured, but no 

 nervures existing : legs, moderate. 



Sp. 1. El. Panzeri. 



Chrysis Panzeri . . Fab. Piez. 172. 9. Spin. I. 63. 3. 



Id. Scutellaria . Panz. F. G. 51. 11. 

 Hedychrum spina . Le Peletier, Ann. du Mus. VII. 121. 2. 



Head and thorax deeply and coarsely punctured ; abdomen very 

 delicately so : the mucro of the postscutellum flat upon the top, 

 and also very coarsely punctured : an obtuse tooth on each side 

 of the last segment of the abdomen, half-way between the emargi- 

 nation and the base : head, scape of the antennae, thorax, and 

 legs, (excepting the tarsi, which are rufescent,) of a metallic blue 

 and green, variously disposed, and occasionally splashed with gold : 

 the abdomen of a rich, golden, or carmine red, the refulgence upon 

 it sometimes, under some aspects, appearing green. (Length, 

 2| lines.) 



My specimens of this apparently rare insect were taken at 

 Leaves Green, in Kent; the Rev. G. T. Rudd has captured 



