CHIIYSIS. 447 



S, Ideutical with the 5 inform and sculpture. .Differs only 

 in color, the sciitellum being bright golden, the postseutelluni and 

 sides of the 1st abdominal segment golden green, the posterior 

 lateral angles of tlie median segment deep blue like the rest of the 

 segment ; the colour of the rest of the parts is similar to that in 

 the $. 



Lemjth, $ c5' 9-5-10 ; exp. $ d 18 mm. 



JIab. Recorded so far only from Mount Abu, 4000 ft., in 

 Rajputana (jynrse). 



524. Chrysis dissimilanda, dn B«i/sxon, Jour. Bomb. /Y. //. *;<-■. x 

 (18U6),i.p. 4G!»& 470. 



" 2 . Similar to C. hayadera^ from which it differs in colour, 

 not showing any of the hery golden tint, a light golden eft'al- 

 gence only on the apical margin of the 2ud abdominal segment. 

 The punctures on the anterior portion of the body are not 

 rugose nor very serried and close ; the face wide, not constricted 

 at the base, the cheeks scarcely developed at all ; pronotum shorter 

 and more convex, the posterior lateral angles of the metathorax 

 very small and scarcely produced, obtuse ; the tarsi subtestaceous ; 

 the 3rd abdominal segment evenly rounded at apex, not sinuate. 

 Ventral side of abdomen bright green, with two dark blue spots on 

 the 2nd segment. 



" LeiKjtli, o'o mm. 



" Hab. Bombay, Poona ( TF/-oi(^7i^oH)." (du Buifsson.) 



This species is unkno\^•n lo me. 



525. Chrysis jalala, Nurse, EnionioJoyist, XXXV (1902), p. 306, 2 6 ■ 



" 2 . Slenderly built ; head, except front, thorax and abdomen 

 closely but not very finely punctured, and very sparsely covered 

 with short greyish pubescence ; clypeus emarginate anteriorly, 

 front concave from beneath a transverse ridge which is situated 

 just below the vertex, covered with a somewhat sparse white 

 pubescence, and finely transversely striate in the centre ; head, 

 thorax and first two abdominal segments of about equal width ; 

 head when viewed from above equal in size to pronotum, sciitellum 

 and postscutellum somewhat more coarsely punctured than the 

 rest of the segments ; abdomen as long as the head and thorax 

 united, the 2nd segment with a median longitudinal carina, 3rd 

 segment rounded at apex, with a conspicuous subapical row of 

 foveas. Dark blue, the clypeus bright green ; the pronotum, meso- 

 notum, scutellum and postscutellum, and a spot on the 3rd abdo- 

 minal segment just above the subapical row of foveas, green ; tlie 

 first abdominal segment, except the extreme base and a line on 

 the centi'e above not reaching the apex, and the apical two-thirds 

 of the 2nd abdominal segment bright coppery golden ; second and 

 following joints of flagellum of antennae dark red ; tarsi dark 



