CHEYSIS. 463 



elongate ; the sides of the 3i-d segment slightly convei-gent 

 posteriorly ; the 1st segment transverse at base with three slight 

 broad impressions above, the '2nd segment strongly medially 

 longitudinally carinate ; the 3rd segment transverse at the apical 

 margin, armed with 4 triangular equal teeth ; the anteapical 

 series of fovea) large and distinct, the apical margin below them 

 in some specimens slightly translucent. 



c? . Identical with the 5 . 



Length, $ c? 5*5-7; cvj). 10-5-13 mm. 



Hah. Quetta (Niwse) ; Delhi (Bingham) ; Ceylon, Peradeniya 

 (Green). The Ceylon specimen is smaller and with more blue 

 about it. Extending to Persia (Ctimming). 



543. Chrysis nursei, sp. nov. 



S . Light metallic green, the abdomen with a coppery efful- 

 fi:ence ; antennae reddish brown, the scape in front green, no 

 green or blue on the upper side of the basal joints of the tiagellum ; 

 legs green, tarsi brownish yellow ; head and ])ronotum very linely 

 and densely punctured, the punctures irregular and serried one 

 against the other, giving a somewhat finely granulate appearance ; 

 lateral areas of the mesouotum reticulate-punctate, median area 

 of the same, the scutellum and postscutellum with much larger 

 and rather distant punctures, the intervals between them smooth 

 and polished ; abdomen punctate, the punctures moderately large 



Fig. 156. — CJnysiK nitrsct, J. a. Postscutelluui and uicdian segment; 

 h. Apical margin of abdomen. 



and shallow ; facial cavity somewhat finely punctured, verv thickly 

 pubescent, the pubescence white, entirely concealing the sculpture*; 

 pilosity light brownish, very short and abundant. Head thick, 

 about as broad and as long as the pronotum ; facial cavity indis- 

 tinctly margined above, 3rd joint of the Hagellum of the anteuuaj 

 the longest ; clypeus slightly raised in the middle, not emargiuate 

 anteriorly ; the mandibles bidentate, front above facial cavity slightly 

 concave ; vertex broad and convex ; occiput transA erse. Thorax : 

 the pronotum massive, transversely rectangular ; the .sides slightly 

 convergent, the anterior lateral angles somewhat rounded, the 

 middle anteriorly broadly but very slightly impressed ; ])ropleui'a> 

 excavate ; mesouotum and scutellum gently convex ; the meso- 

 pleurse convex, longitudinally grooved from beneath the base of the 

 wings to the apex ; postscutellum rounded posteriorly, completely 



