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PLATE VIL 



CHRYSIS lGNITA. 



Common Golden Wasp. 



Hymenoptera. 



Wings four, generally membraneous. Tail of the females armed 

 with a fling. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Mouth horny and advanced : jaw linear, much longer than the lip» 

 emarginate, and membranaceous at the tip : no tongue : Palpi four, 

 projecting, unequal and filiform. Antennas fhort, filiform, of twelve 

 joints, the firft of which is longeft. Body golden, mining, and 

 glofly ; abdomen arched beneath with a fcale on each fide : tail 

 ufually dentated : fling partly exferted. Wings flat. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Glabrous, mining, thorax green, abdomen golden, with four 

 teeth at the extremity. 



C^rysis ignita: glabra nitida, thorace viridi abdomine auieo: 

 apice quadridentato. Fn. Suec* 1665. — GmeJ. 

 Lirm.SyJi. 2745. fj>. 1. 



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