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excepting a faintly impressed series just within the delicate raised bound- 

 ing line ; an arc of 120 removed from the truncated disk by an emar- 

 gination which does not reach the centre. 



Waterbury, Conn., July 27th. 



Slightly larger than Notozus viridis (Elampus vtridis Cress., Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Phila., iv., 103 ; Cuba), and differs in the form of the apex of 

 the abdomen. 



Chrysis verticalis. 



Green and dark purple, minute, slender, discal cell obsolete, apex of 

 abdomen truncate ; length 4 m. m. 



Head and thorax green ; flagellum fuscous, a purple spot about ocelli, 

 palpi and tips of the mandibles testaceous, median piece of mesothorax 

 purple, post-scutellum tinged with purple, tarsi white, wings hyaline, outer 

 border of the tegulee and the nervures dark piceous. Abdomen dark 

 purple, extreme base of the first segment and sides of the first and second 

 segments green, apical margins of the first and second segments and 

 a fascia before the foveolse and on sides of the third segment 

 blue-green. Body beneath light green. Body clothed with white 

 pubescence. Confluently punctured, the punctures on the abdomen finer 

 and distinct. Head unusually long, the front being very convex, the 

 vertex unusually convex when viewed from before, the eyes prominent 

 and suborbicular, the transverse ridge between the eyes and above the 

 antennary fossa prominent. Prothorax without median groove, grooves 

 of mesothorax distinct ; post-scutellum distinct from the metathorax, 

 elevated, but not produced into a spine ; metathoracic spines sharp, 

 parallel ; discoidal cell of anterior wings obsolete, the radial and sub- 

 medial cells as usual. Abdomen with the median sulcus on the basal 

 segment distinct, the third segment narrowed towards the apex, which is 

 truncate and unarmed ; the ante-apical series of foveolas, consisting of a 

 few large confluent punctures, interrupted in the middle. 



Waterbury, Conn., July 22nd; found entangled in a spider's web. 



The form of the head in this species is peculiar. 



Chrysis Martia. 



Green, abdomen red, wings hyaline ; length 5 m. m. 

 Head and thorax green, with a thin griseous pubescence ; antennae 

 black, the basal joints of the flagellum above and the scape green, the 



