CHRYS])?. 457 



with soft white pubescence ; pilosity whitish, short and fairly 

 abuudant, on the legs the hairs are long and oblique. Head thick, 

 as long and as broad as the prouotum ; clypeus \\ide, medially 

 rectangularly ]n*oduced, its anterior margin in the middle trans- 

 verse ; facial hollow moderately deep, bordered above by an irregular 

 transverse carina on the front, the ends of which do not extend to 

 the eyes on each side ; antennae rather slender, the 2nd joint of 

 the flagellum twice as long as the 1st, the 3rd joint very short ; 

 front and vertex broad and lightly convex, occiput very slightly 

 and very widely emarginate, nearly transverse. Thorax : the 

 pronotum transversely rectangular, the sides of the prothorax 

 concave ; mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum gently convex, 

 the median ai-ea of the mesonotum broad, a little longer than broad, 

 mesopleurse finely punctured, strongly convex ; the apex beneath 

 very narrow, subacute and excavate, postscutellum short, crescentic ; 

 luedian segment with the produced posterior angles very narrow, 

 curved inwards, acute at apex ; wings hyaline, slightly fuscous on 

 the disc, nervures brown, tegulse purple ; legs slender. Abdomen 

 massive, broad, the 1st segment concave at base, sliortly and 

 slightly longitudinally impressed above in the middle of its anterior 

 margin ; 2nd and 3rd segments obsoletely medially longitudinally 

 carinate ; the anteapical series of fovese on the latter segment 

 obsolete ; apical margin strongly arched, with four narrow, rather 

 long acute teeth, 



d" . Identical in form and in the armature of the abdomen, but 

 entirely dark green with blue shadings on the thorax and ou the 

 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments ; the puncturing is much coarser, 

 almost granulate. 



Length, 2 9? c? S*75 ; exp. $ cJ 17 mm. 



Ilah. So far recorded only from Northern Gujerat, Deesa {Nurse) ; 

 Delhi {Binijham). 



537. Chrysis annulata, du Bmjss. Rev. (VEnt. vi (1887), p. 192, S; id. 



I. c. xix (1900), p. 148, $; Mocs. (Tetr&chvysis), Mon. Chnjs. 



1889, p. 4:22. (PL I. fig. 14.) 

 Chrysis fulvicornis, Mocs. (Tetrachrysis), Mon. Chnjs. 1889, p. 427. 

 Chrvsis (^uettaensis & C. balucba, Nurse, H.idomohxjkt, xxxvi 



(190.S), p. 41. 



5 . MetaUic light golden green, the median area of the meso- 

 notum, the hollows in the propleur^e, the coxa?, femora and tibiiE 

 of the legs, and the apical margin of the 3rd abdominal segment 

 dark metallic blue ; the 1st, 2ud and basal area of 3rd abdominal 

 segment effulgent, golden, coppery red ; antennae and tarsi brown, 

 the scape in front and the basal two joints of the Hagellum above 

 green ; head, thorax and abdomen somewhat coarsely and very 

 evenly and closely punctured ; the facial cavity finely riigulose ; 

 pilosity yellowish white, short, rather sparse. Head as long and 

 as broad as the pronotum; clyiKMis broad, sliglitly emarginate in the 

 middle anteriorly ; facial cavity moderately deep, clothed w ith very 

 short white pubescence, margined above and with a transverse 



