HEDYCHMDIDM, — HEDICHBUM. 427 



508. Hedychridium minutum, Leiicl. (Hedyclirum), Ami. Mus. Hist. 

 Xti/. vii (1806), p. 122, pi. 7, fig. 9, c?; dn Buysson, liev. d'Eiit. 

 (1900), p. 128. 

 ? Chrysis ardens, Coquehcrt, Illustr. Icon. Ins. dec. ii (1801), p. -■39, 

 pi. xiv, fig. 7. 



2 S • Head and tborax green, with more or less of cupreous 

 effulgence on the vertex, the pronotum posteriorly, and ou the meso- 

 notum and scutellum ; postscutellum light green, in certain lights 

 cupreous golden ; the face, pronotum auteriorly, and sides of the 

 thorax green without any golden effulgence ; abdomen on the discs 

 of the segments fiery cupreous golden, the sides and base in certain 

 lights greenish golden ; head and thorax moderately finely punc- 

 tured, the punctures larger and reticulate on the postscutellum ; 

 abdomen minutely and closely punctured ; facial cavity minutely 

 rugulose; pilosity brown, short and sparse. Head a little broader 

 than the pronotum, the occiput and front from above flat and 

 transverse ; vertex convex ; facial cavity shallow ; antennje 

 short, moderately thick ; 2nd joint of the flagellum longer than 

 tlie 1st or 8rd ; clypeus moderately long and broad, raised in the 

 middle. Thorax : the pronotum from above longer than the head, 

 transverse, slightly sloping in front, sides convergent anteriorly ; 

 propleurae slightly excavate ; mesonotum and scutellum gently 

 convex : mesopleura^ flat, subtriangular ; postscutellum strongly 

 convex, somewhat gibbous posteriorly; posterior lateral angles of 

 median segment largely produced, acute at apex ; wings slightly 

 fu:^ co-hyaline beyond the disc, which is clear hyaline ; nervures 

 and tegula} aeneous brown. Abdomen broad, proportionately 

 massive, transverse at base, the apical margin rounded, entire. 

 Length, $ c? 4-4-75 ; exp. 8*5 mm. 



Hah. Eeported from Calcutta {teste du Buysson) ; spread through 

 the M"hole of Europe. The above description is taken from a 

 European specimen in the collection of the British Museum. 



Genus HEDYCHRUM. 

 Hedychrum, Latr. Hist. Nat. Cnist. Ins. iii (1802), p. 317. 



Type, M. nohile, Scop., from Europe. 



Range. Both hemispheres. 



5d. Head transverse, much shorter than the pronotum: 

 occiput transverse, closely approximate to the front of the 

 pronotum ; vertex and front convex ; facial cavity deep, in all 

 species finely transversely striate ; antenna) moderately long, 

 filiform or setaceous ; mandibles bidentate or tridentate. Thorax 

 short, massive, broad ; in all the Indian species known to me tlie 

 pronotum is longer than the mesonotum, transverse, almost square, 

 slightly convex above ; propleunc juore or less excavate ; meso- 

 notum and scutellum gently convex ; mesoplenra? convex, trian- 

 gular, not carinate, the apex not excavate ; ])ostscutellum strongly 

 convex, from above more or less semicircular ; median segment 



