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PLATE XIX. 



CHRYSIS BIDENTATA. 



Hymenoptera, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth horny and projeQing : lip much fhorter than the jaw, 

 which is linear, membranaceous, and emarginate at the tip : no tongue : 

 feelers four, unequal, and filiform : antennae fhort and filiform, and 

 confifting of twelve articulations, the firft longeft : body golden, and 

 polifhed: abdomen arched beneath, with a fcale each fide : tail gene- 

 rally toothed i fting pungent and nearly concealed : wings flat. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Glabrous, blue: thorax bidentate, and with the two firfl; fegments 

 ©f the abdomen golden. 



Chrysis bidenTata : glabra, nitida cyanea, thorace biden- 

 tato abdominifque fegmentis duobus primis aureis. Fabr. Sp. Inf. 

 \.p, 456. n. 9. 



The Chryfis bidentata is fcarcely fo large, and by no means fa 

 common as the Chryfis ignita, but is fully equal if not fuperior in 

 She beauty and richnefs of its colours to that fplendid little infed. 

 The head an4 third or extreme fegment of the body is blue, change- 

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