NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN HYMENOPTER'A. 21 



Chrysis deposita, n. sp. 



9 Facial hollow not very concave, terminated above by a slight 

 carina ; head and thorax finely and somewhat closely punctured, 

 abdomen, especially the second and third segments, more finely and 

 closely punctured than the head and thorax ; pronotum transverse anteri- 

 orly, with a slight median impression, its sides very slightly concave ; 

 second abdominal segment with a trace of a median longitudinal carina, 

 third segment with its apical margin bluntly rounded, without teeth, and 

 with an anteapical series of eight or ten distinct, rather large, fovese. 

 Bright green ; the central quadrate portion of the mesonotum and the 

 lateral angles of the median segment dark-blue ; second and third 

 abdominal segments with coppery effulgence ; antennte and tarsi piceous ; 

 wings hyaline, nervures rufo-piceous to piceous. 



Long. 7 mm. 



Habitat : Quetta ; a single specimen. 



Nearest to C. pelopcecida from Jerusalem. 



Chrysis chlorochrisa (Mocs.). 



In the Entomologist, Vol. XXXVI, p. 40, I described under the 

 name of C. hogget what appeared to me to be a new species of Chrysis. 

 I sent specimens to Lt.-Col. Bingham and M. du Buysson. The former, 

 in Vol. II, Hymenoptera, of the Fauna of India series, united C. hoggei 

 with C. perfecta (Cam.) from Barrackpore. M. du Buysson identified 

 the 9 as C. subccerulea (Rad.) and the $ as C. chlorochrisa (Mocs.). In 

 his volume on the Chrysididse of " Species des Hymenopteres d' 

 Europe," p. 500, M. du Buysson observes that the $ described by 

 Radoszkowsky, as C. subccerulea is C. chlorochrisa (Mocs.). Accepting 

 this identification of the $, and taking into consideration that both 

 Radoszkowsky and I united these as the same species quite independently, 

 it appears to me that the name of chlorochrisa should stand for both 

 sexes, and that both C. subccerulea (Rad.) and C. hoggei (Nurse) must be 

 sunk as synonyms. Whether C. perfecta (Cam.; is another species or 

 only a variety I cannot express an opinion, not having seen a specimen. 

 I may mention that I have about a dozen specimens of each sex, all 

 obtained at Quetta, and I have no doubt whatever that they are one 

 species. I should not venture to differ from such a high authority as M. 

 du Buysson without having considerable material at my disposal. 



