Cuckoo wasp, Sphex ignita 1, shimmering ruby tail, Chrysis fulgida 2, Chrysura radians 3, C. veridans 4, C. hephaestites 5, Order I. Chrysis curax, Order II, Chrysis politus, Order III. Hymenoptera. Chryside. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Moses Harris from his own Exposition of English Insects, Including the several Classes of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, or Bees, Flies and Libellulae, White and Robson, London, 1782.

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