1865.] 309 



Female. — Elongate, rather narrow, brilliant green, somewhat golden, 

 with a blue reflection in certain lights, shining, closely punctured, the 

 punctures rather coarse on the head and thorax, much finer on the 

 abdomen, thinly clothed with pale pubescence; head a little broader 

 than the thorax, the face behind the antenna; depressed and rugulose ; 

 eyes large, ovate ; antenna; blackish, the scape golden-green. Thorax 

 rather strongly tinged with blue ; dorsal lines of mesothorax distinct. ; 

 posterior angles of metathorax prominent, flattened, divergent and sub- 

 acute; tegula) green. Wings pale fusco-hyaliue, nervures blackish. 

 Legs green, with a slight tinge of blue, pubescent; tarsi piceous. Ab- 

 domen oblong-ovate, polished, convex, closely and rather finely punc- 

 tured, the intervals between the larger punctures covered with minute 

 punctures; basal segment golden-green, the remainder with a rather 

 strong blue reflection, gradually narrowed to the tip which is produced 

 in the middle and obtusely emarginate, the angles subacute, the margin 

 on each side of the middle strongly sinuate or scolloped, giving the 

 apical margin of the segment somewhat the appearance of having four 

 projections, the two central ones prominent and subacute and the late- 

 ral ones very obtuse and ill-defined ; before the apex there is a trans- 

 verse row of deep punctures; venter bright golden-green. Length 3 

 lines; expanse of wings 4J lines. 



One specimen. 



IV. — Apical margin of third abdominal segment with three teeth. 



5. Chrysis virens. n. sp. 



Green, abdomen blue-green; densely and deeply punctured; metathorax 

 produced behind: wings subhyaline; apex of abdomen truncate, flattened, with 

 a tooth in the middle and one on each side. 



Female. — Elongate, parallel, brilliant green, sometimes obscure ; head 

 and thorax densely and coarsely punctured; face much depressed, 

 golden-green, pubescent, and bounded above by a well-defined, trans- 

 verse, undulating carina; cheeks acutely carinated; mandibles piceous. 

 green at base; eyes large, nearly round ; antenna; black, the scape and 

 two or three basal joints of the flagellum above, green; prothorax sili- 

 cate on the dorsal middle; dorsal lines of mesothorax deeply impressed ; 

 dorsal middle of the metathorax obtusely produced behind with a deep 

 bluish fovea at base; the posterior angles flattened, large, divergent and 

 acute; tegula; bluish. Wings faintly tinged with fuliginous, with a 

 very slight violet gloss ; nervures blackish. Legs green, changing to 

 golden and bluish ; tarsi blackish, pale sericeous beneath. Abdomen 

 elongate, slightly narrowed towards the apex, convex above, closely 

 and deeply punctured, the punctures not so coarse as those of the tho- 



