460 CHRTSIUID.'E. 



is a short transverse carina, not extending on each side to the 

 orbits of the eyes, witli no cariuse emitted towards the anterior 

 ocelhis; front and vertex convex; occiput from above widely 

 emarginate. Thorax : the pronotum short, transversely rectangular, 

 longer at the sides than in the middle, the latter slightly emar- 

 ginate with the anterior lateral angles truncate ; propleurse excavate ; 

 mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum lightly convex ; meso- 

 pleurae rugose, slightly excavate at apex beneath ; median segment 

 depressed beneath the postscutellum, the posterior lateral angles 

 prominent and acute at apex : wings hyaline, nervares and tegulae 

 brown. Abdomen a little depressed, the 2nd segment medially 

 strongly carinate, the 3rd segment with the anteapical series of 

 foveas small, the apical margin ending in 4 very broad and short 

 but acute teetli. 



J' unknown. 



Length, § 5-5 ; cwj). 10*5 ram. 



Mab. Eecorded so far only from Tangala in Ceylon (Green). 

 Mr. Green attached the following note to the specimen he kindly 

 sent me : " Found in rose twig in tunnel formed by Crahro sp.?" 



540. Chrysis obliterata, Mocsdnj (Tetracluysis), Mon. Ckn/s. 1889, 

 p. '-jT? ; du Biajss. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x (1896), pp. 472 & 

 47a, pi. iii, tig. 5, $ d . 

 Chrysis orientalis, Dahlb. {nee Guer.) Hym. Eur. 1854, p. 225, 5 . 



$ . Metalhc green, the median area of the mesonotum, the 

 bases and the discs of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments violet- 

 blue ; antennae brown, the scape in front and the basal two joints 

 of the flagellum above bluish green ; legs green, tarsi reddish 

 brown ; head, thorax and abdomen closely but not densely punc- 

 tured; the punctures irregular, the larger 

 punctures mixed with many minute points ; 

 the punctures on the thorax posteriorly 

 coarser and on the abdomen somewhat 

 liner than on the rest of the body ; facial 

 cavity finely rugulose, with some short 

 whitish pubescence which does not, how- 

 ever, conceal the sculpture ; pilosity whitish, 

 A^ery short and somewhat sparse. Head 

 thick, shghtly broader than the pronotum ; 

 Fig. 155. clypeus broad, raised in the niiddle ; facial 



Chrysis ulihtcrata, § . cavity moderately deep, margined above by a 

 slight transverse carina ; antennae moderately 

 long, the 2nd joint of the fiagellum a very little longer than 

 the 3rd ; front and vertex convex, occiput transverse. Thorax : 

 the pronotum subcylindi'ical, the sides convergent towards the 

 front, the middle anteriorly slightly impressed ; propleuroe slightly 

 excavate ; mesonotum and scutellum slightly convex ; mesopleurse 

 convex, longitudinally grooved, the apex excavate and divided off 

 by a short transverse groove ; postscutellum from above semi- 



