442 cnuYsiDiD;!. 



facial cavity as coarsely punctured as the Lead and front above it : 

 pilosity brownish, long and plentiful on the head, thorax and 

 towards the apex of the abdomen, almost wanting on the basal 

 two segments of the last. Head broader than the pronotum 

 and quite as long ; facial cavity very shallow, the face barely 

 depressed ; clypeus produced, its anterior margin sharply trans- 

 verse ; antennae long and thick, the 2nd joint of the flagellum 

 three times as long as the 1st and twice as long as the 2nd ; 

 front' and vertex verj- broad, with a slight rounded slope to the 

 front ; occiput slightly emarginate ; the sides of the bead behind 

 the eyes broad. Thorax : the pronotum transversely rectangular, 

 the sides very slightly emarginate ; the anterior margin rounded, 

 not sharp ; a rounded depression in the middle above ; propleurae 

 depressed, with two slight hollows ; mesonotum, scutellum and 

 postscutellum convex, the sutures between them deep and broad, 

 the median area of the raesonotnm somewhat narrow, longitudinally 

 rectangular ; mesopleurte rugose, with a broad longitudinal groove 

 from under the wings terminating in a short transverse pre- 

 apical groove, the apex beneath triangular ; postscutellum rounded, 

 not prominent, median segment vertical, its posterior lateral angles 

 broadly produced and acute ; wings hyaline, iiervures dark bro\^•n, 

 tegute purple ; legs long and somewhat slender. Abdomen as long 

 as the head and thorax united, the base more or less truncate, the 

 three segments indistinctly medially longitudinally carinate, the 

 sides of the 3rd segment slightly convergent posteriorly, the apical 

 margin straight, entire, the anteapical series not deep, the fovea> 

 small. 



Length, 5 9-10 ; e.vp. 10-17 mm. 



Ilah. Kashmir, 5000-6000 ft. {Nurse). 



517. Chrysis burmanica, Mocsdiy, Termesz.Fi(zefeJc,xv (1892), p. 214. 



d . Closely resembles C. ignifascia, Mocs., but differs in colour 

 and somewhat in sculpture. Dark blue, with greenish tints in 

 certain lights, arising from the punctures being greenish inside ; 

 the margin of the head and pronotum posteriorly, the posterior 

 angles of the median segment, the base of the abdomen, the 

 apical margin of the 1st and 2nd, and preapical band on the 3rd 

 abdominal segment decidedly green ; the space round the ocelli, 

 some marks on the pronotum, the medial area of the mesonotum, 

 the base of the 2ud and 3rd abdominal segments, and the apical 

 margin of the latter segment black or partially Aery dark blue ; 

 antennae and legs dusky black ; the scape of the antennte in front, 

 the basal two joints of the flagellum above, the coxa), trochanters, 

 femora and tibire of the legs green ; pilosity as in C. v/nifascia, 

 but the whitish hairs in the facial hollow and on the legs softer, 

 more dense and not so oblique. Puncturing as in 0. ignifascia 

 but finer, shallower and more regular on the abdomen. Head 

 subglobose ; mandibles, clypeus, antennas and frontal carina as in 

 C. ignifascia. Thorax similar to the thorax in that species, but 



