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CHRYSIS BIDENTATA 
HYMENOPTERA. 
GENERIG CHARACTER. 
Thorax joined to the abdomen by a thort pedicle. Abdomen divided 
into three fegments. Sting fimple. Wings not folded. Antenne fili- 
form’of one long and eleven fhert joints each. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Head and laft fegment of the body, fley blue, changeable. Thorax, 
and two firft annulations of the abdomen, crimfon with gold {pots. 
Thorax with two teeth. 
The Chryfis Bidentata is {carecly fo large, and by no means fo 
common as the Chryfis Ignita, (not exceeding one-third of an inch in 
length) but is equal, if not {uperior in beauty and richnefs ot colour. The 
head, but more particularly the laft fegment of the body, appears in 
one direction of light, blue, in another green, in another purple, &cc. 
and the thorax, and two firft fegments of the abdomen are far more 
enriched with a golden appearance ; the ground colour is deep crimfon, 
but the metallic appearance on the lighter parts, and the number of 
fmall gold fpots which befprinkle it, greatly diminifh the ftrength of 
colour, and renders it, even before it is magnified, a fuperb little 
infec. 
It is found in May or June in fome parts of Kent and Effex. 
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