ciiRYsis. 445 



521. Chrysis chavanse, Xia-.^e, Entomohr/ist, xxxv (1902), p. 308, $. 



" $ . Head and thorax closely but someuhat irregularly, abdo- 

 men rather more regularly and huely punctured ; head wider than 

 pronotum, rhe latter with sides almost parallel; 1st abdominal 

 segment with a deep median longitudinal indentation at base, 2nd 

 and 3rd segments with traces of a carina, apical segment without 

 teeth, slightly sinuate. Head and thorax dark blue, the meso- 

 notum with greenish reflections ; abdomen light metallic green, 

 with a coppery effulgence on 2nd and 3rd segments ; legs dark 

 blue, flagellum of antenna) piceous ; tarsi dark red or reddish 

 black ; the whole insect more or less covered A\-ith rather sparse 

 greyish pubescence; wings hyaline, fore wing with the central 

 portion very slightly infuscated, nervures dark testaceous. 



''■Length, 5 6 mm. 



" Hah. Quetta ; a single specimen." {Nurse.) 



522. Chrysis ignifascia, Mocsdnj, 'IWmesz. Fiizcteh; xv (1892), p. 215. 



2 . Dark metallic green : the space round the ocelli, a medial 

 transverse mark on the occiput, another similar mark on the front 

 of the pronotum, the medial area, the lateral margins and the 

 tegula? of the wings on the mesonotum, and the base broadly of the 

 2ud and 3rd abdominal segments dark bluish black, on the 2nd 

 abdominal segment the blue reaches medially further towards the 

 margin than it does at the sides and is bordered with greenish, 

 beyond which the remainder of the segment is brilliant fiery ruby- 

 coloured ; antennae black, the scape in front and the basal two 

 joints of the tiagellum above green; legs, including the tibitu 

 and 1st joint of the tarsus on the upper side green, the tibiae 

 below and the rest of the tarsi dark brown ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen evenly, rather coarsely and very densely punctured all 

 over ; the facial hollow finely, transversely striate ; pilosity rather 

 abundant, dark and very short ; on the legs and in the facial 

 hollow on either side there is a little rather long, oblique, white 

 pubescence. Head subglobose, somewhat broader than long, 

 mandibles bidentate ; clypeus transverse, fiat ; antennae short and 

 moderately thick, the 2nd joint of the flagellum twice as long as 

 the 3rd; below the anterior ocellus, but appreciably above the 

 upper margin of the facial hollow, the front is crossed by a trans- 

 verse deeply bi-waved carina. Thorax : the pronotum transverse, 

 only a little shorter than the mesonotum, the sides slightly con- 

 verging towards the front ; mesonotum convex, the medial area 

 rectangular ; mesopleurae excavate anteriorly, the hollow fiat, 

 coarsely punctured and margined, coming to a point beneath, 

 posteriorly the mesopleurte are finely punctured ; scutellum, post- 

 scutellum and median segment together rounded, forming one 

 convexity, the posterior lateral angles of the median segment 

 flattened and pruduc-ed ; wings hyaline, slightly fuscous, nervures 

 brown; legs comparatively long. Abdomen subcyliudrical above, 



