MACBOMEBIS. — PAHAGENIA. 



105 



6. Wino-s entirely dark fuscous throughout, 



"with a rich purple and blue etlulgeuce .... M. violacea, p. 105. 

 B. Wings flavo-hyaline M. castanea. 



So far as I know, M. spJendida and M. castanea occur only in 

 Java and the Indo-Malayan subregion. 



214. Macromeris violacea, Lepel. Guer. Mar/. Zool. 18;31. pi. 30, j; 

 uL Hym. iii, p. 464, S ; Smifh,Cat. iii, p. 181 ; Cam. Mem. Mamh. 

 L. Ph.Soc. (4) iv, 1891, p. 435. 

 Macromeris iridipeuuis, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1859, p. 15G, 5 6 , 

 var. 



2 • Head, pro- and mesonotum densely pruinose ; scutelhun, 

 postscutellum, and legs smooth and shin- 

 ing ; median segment above finely rugose ; 

 abdomen sparsely pruinose, with a very 

 short recumbent pile ; head and thorax 

 M'ith scattered long pubescence, somewhat 

 dense on the clypeus : legs long, the tibiae 

 and tarsi without spines, the coxas and 

 femora stout, thick ; abdomen fusiform, 

 subpetiolate, the apical two segments 

 studded with long erect hairs. Black, 

 with beautiful purple and blue reflections 

 in certain lights, the metanotum dull and 

 opaque ; the pubescence on the head, 

 thorax, and apex of the abdomen velvety 

 black; wings dark brown, with a most 

 brilliant purple effulgence changing in 

 different lights. 



S . Precisely similar in colour and 

 pubescence ; differs only in the form of the 

 coxae and femora of the legs, which, as noted in the description of 

 the genus, are immensely thickened, and in some specimens 

 (var. iridipennis, Sm.) the femora are laminated below and the 

 edge serrate. 



Hab. India generally, except in the very dry regions ; Andamans ; 

 Assam; Burma; Tenasserim, and the Malayan region right 

 through to New Guinea. $ . Length 25-30 ; exp. 58-6G mm. 

 6 • Length 22-26 ; exp. 56-60 mm. 



Fig. 23. — Macromeris 

 violacea, 2 • r- 



Genus PARAGENIA. 



Macromeris, pt., Smith {nee Lepel.) Jon?: Linn. Soc. 1858, p. 97. 

 Paragenia, JSingh. Jour. Linn. Soc. 1896, p. 429. 



Type, P. argentifrons, Smith. 



Mange. The Indo-Malayan subregion. 



Head in front slightly convex ; eyes with the inner orbits arcuate 

 and converging above and below, extending beneath to the base 

 of the mandibles ; thorax, especially in the male, massive ; median 



