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PLATE CCXXXV. 



CHRYSIS CYANEA. 



Hymenoptera. 



Wings four : generally membraneous. Tail of the females armed 

 with a fling. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth horny, projecting : jaw linear, membranaceous and errtar- 

 ginate at the tip: no tongue: feelers four, unequal and filiform : 

 antennae fhort and filiform, and of twelve articulations, the firft 

 longer : body golden and polifhed : abdomen arched beneath with a 

 fcale on each fide : tail generally toothed : fling pungent, nearly con- 

 cealed : wings flat. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



GIofTy, mining, thorax and abdomen blue : tail tridentate. 



Chrysis cyanea ; glabra nitens thorace abdominifque creruleis, 



ano tridentato, Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 948. 5. — En. Sv. 



1067. 



Fab. Ent. Sy/i. .<?. 147. p. 248. 20. 

 Vefpa caerulea nitens. Geoff. Inf. 2. 484. 23.—$ch<eff. Icon. 



tab. 8 1 . fig. 5 . 



The natural fize of this Infecl is given at Fig. I. in the annexed 

 Plate. It is far inferior in beauty to either Chryfis ignita or bidentata, 

 figured in the early part of this work ; ' ut as the genus is very, 

 limited, we have given a figure of this fpecies. It is an abundant 

 on all kinds of fruit-trees m the fummer. 



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