432 CHRYSIDID^E. 



black, the scape in front and the basal joint of the flagellum above 

 bluish or greenish ; legs gi-een, tarsi reddish brown ; head and 

 thorax somewhat densely punctured, the punctures large and small 

 mixed ; abdomen more tinely, evenly and very closely punctured ; 

 facial cavity rugulose, ])ubescent, the pubescence in part hiding the 

 sculpture ; pilosity brownish, short and abundant. Head thick, 

 as broad as or slightly broader than the front of the pronotum ; 

 facial cavity deep, above acutely margined, front and vertex pro- 

 portionately broad and convex ; the antennae thick, the 1st joint 

 of the flagellum small, the 2nd longer 

 than the 3rd, the 3rd and 4th subequal ; 

 occiput from above slightly widely emar- 

 ginate. Thorax : the pronotum short, 

 transversely rectangular : propleuraj ex- 

 cavate : mesonotum and scutellum slightly 

 convex ; mesopleurse rugose, the apex 

 excavate, marghied and subacute ; post- 

 scutellum rounded posteriorly, prominent 

 Hg. loU. jj^(j convex; posterior lateral angles of 



•^ ^ ■' ^ median segment moderately broadly pro- 



duced, acute at apex, slightly curved ; wings hyaline, nervures 

 dark brown, tegulae blue. Abdomen somewhat short and broad, 

 with three wide but shallow impressions at base, the three seg- 

 ments medially longitudinally carinate, the 3rd segment slightly 

 transversely incrassate before the anteapical series, the fovete 

 comparatively large and open, the apical margin of the 3rd segment 

 sinuate, laterally bidentate. 



(S . Similar. The one I have seen slightly broader and shorter. 

 Length, $ 3-75; S 3-5; e.vp. $ S oVm. 



Hah. Within our limits recorded from Bombay, Poona 

 ( Wrour/hton). Found in Sonthern Europe, Northern Africa, 

 and Persia. 



I have taken the above description from a specimen from Spain, 

 in the British Museum Collection. According to Mocsary, the 

 apical margin of the 3rd abdominal segment is variable. 



Genus STILBUM. 

 Stilbum. Spinola, Ins. Luj. i (1806), p. 9. 



Type, H. cuanaram, Furst., from Europe. 



lianye. Both hemispheres. 



2 S • Head much narrower than the pronotum, very short, the 

 occiput more or less rounded, the vertex and front convex, very 

 narrow, the eyes occupying more than two-thirds of the whole 

 width of the face ; the sides of the head and the cheeks elongate, 

 the mandibles produced somewhat into the shape of a beak ; the 

 clypeus also produced, anteriorly medially einarginate ; facial 

 hollow deep, transversely striate, above not margined ; antennoe 



