CURYSIS. 



441 



veiy distinct, with S fovea?, the base of the 1st .segmeut slighth^ 

 concave, the 2nd segment with a medial longitudinal slight carina. 



d unknown. 



Length, $ O'o; e.vp. 11 n)m. 



Mab. Procured at Pishin, Baluchistan {JS'iirse). 



515. Chrysis nila, sp. nov. 



d . Head, greater part of thorax, and the basal abdominal seg- 

 ment dingy bluish green : the space round the ocelli, the meso- 

 notum and the apical two abdominal segments black, purphsh iu 

 certain lights, with tiie apical margins of the latter green ; antennae 

 dark brown ; legs, the coxae and femora purplish black, the tibiae 

 and tarsi dark brown ; head and thorax linely punctured, slightly, 

 very finely granulate ; facial hollow and abdomen minutely punc- 

 tured, the punctures shallow, not giving a granulate appearance ; 

 pilosity brownish, fairly abundant. Head thick, broad, longer 

 and broader than the pronotum, constricted anteriorly, the occiput 

 somewhat sharply transverse, the front and vertex broad and 

 slightly convex ; the facial hollow almost obsolete, the face only 

 slightly concave and medially longitudinally gi'ooved ; antennae 

 long and slender, the 2nd joint of the flagellum Aery little longer 

 than the 3rd ; the cheeks and mandibles long, the latter bidentate 

 at apex. Thorax : the pronotum long, nearly as long as broad, 

 the sides parallel ; propleurae not excavate, the sides of the pro- 

 thorax slightly concave ; mesouotum and scutellum slightly convex ; 

 mesopleuraj slightly convex, rugulose, the triangular apex beneath 

 separated from the upper portion by a deep groove ; postscutellum 

 convex ; the produced posterior lateral angles of the median 

 segment rather long, narrow, acute at apex and curved backwards ; 

 \\ings hyaline, iridescent, the nervures and tegulae dark brown. 

 Abdomen convex, moderately long, the 1st segment transverse at 

 base, slightly impressed in the middle above, the 2nd segment 

 not carinate, the 3rd segment has the sides continuous with the 

 margin, forming a narrow arch, the latter entire, not dentate ; 

 anteapical series very close to the margin, not very distinct, the 

 foveae small, punctiform. 



$ unknown. 



Length, S barely 5; exp. 8 mm. 



Hah. Xorthern Gujerat, Deesa (Nurse). 



5 1 (). Chrysis kashmirensis, Xurse, Eutomoloyist, xxxv (1902), p. 307. 



$ . Uniform greenish blue, in certain lights more blue than 

 green; the median area of the mesonotum and the scutellum deep 

 ultramarine-blue ; antennae brown, the scape in front and the 

 basal two joints of the tlagellum above green; legs green ; tarsi 

 brown ; head and thorax rugose, very densely })unctured, the 

 punctures irregular in part, cribrate and within finely punctured ; 

 abdomen rather more finely and less densely punctured, the 

 punctures shallow, with a mixture of larger and deeper punctures ; 



