ciiRYsis. 465 



54-5. Chrysis speculata, <ho Bmjsson, Jour. Bomb. N H. Soc. x 

 (1896), pp. 471 & 473, pi. 3, tig. 4, $ . 



$ . '' Body o£ iiioderate size and somewhat robustly built, 

 slis;htly depressed, recallinq; the form of C. (jrohmannl, Dahlb. ; 

 greenish blue, with the lateral areas of the mesonotuin, the sides 

 of the 1st abdominal segment, two large lateral spots on the 2nd 

 and two more on the 3rd fiery golden ; the vertex, the median 

 area of the mesonotum, and the bases of the 2nd and 3rd 

 abdominal segments deep blue ; pubescence long, whitish. Facial 

 cavity short, broad, covered with thick white hairs, above margined 

 by a double transverse carina ; cheeks very short, strongly con- 

 vergent anteriorly ; mandibles simple ; antennae blackish, the first 

 two joints and the base of the 3rd green, the 3rd joint nearly as 

 long as the two following united ; pronotum very short, convex, 

 anteriorly declivous ; puuctation anteriorly moderate, irregular, 

 slightly ritgulose, moderately serried ; postscutellum convex, 

 posterior lateral angles of the metathorax small, obtuse at apex ; 

 teguloe maroon-coloured, chitinous ; wings hyaline ; legs green, 

 slightly golden at the junction of the femora and tibire, set with 

 thick white hairs, tarsi brown. Abdomen oval, moderately punc- 

 tured, the punctures serried and mixed with finer punctures ; the 

 posterior lateral angles of the 2nd segment rounded ; 3rd segment 

 with large, widely spaced, reticulate punctures, the sides long and 

 straight, the anteapical series slightly hollow at the apex, more so 

 than on the sides ; 10 fovete, open, of moderate size, irregular, 

 subconfluent ; apical margin quadridentate, the teeth subchitinous, 

 triangular, subacute, placed along a very curved line, the medial 

 two closer to one another than either is to the next tooth 

 exteriorly ; the outer teeth much shorter, separated from the 

 medial teeth and from the sides of the segment by a wide rounded 

 emargination, the median emargination much smaller and tri- 

 angular ; the ends of the margin ])rominent and forming with 

 the sides a slight angle. Ventral side of abdomen greenish blue, 

 with black spots. 



•' LeiKjth, 2 (3 mm, 



" Hah. Bombay Presidency, Poona ( Wrouglitoii)."' {da Biujsson.) 



546. Chrysis cupreiventris, Bini/h. Jour. Bomb. N. II. Soc. xii (1898), 

 p. 117, 2 . 



5. Head and thorax metallic blue or bluish green; abdomen 

 ruby-red to deep cupreous red with a brilliant metallic efful- 

 gence, shaded on tlie discs of the segments with violet-blue or 

 purple ; front of the face in some specimens golden green ; the 

 scapes of the antennas and legs bluish green, flagella of the 

 antennae and tarsi dark brown or black ; head and thorax closely 

 and somewhat coarsely punctured, the punctures not very deep, 

 especially on the head and on the thorax anteriorly, on the 

 scutelluui and postscntellum they are deeper, coarser aiul some- 

 what cribrate ; abdomen very densely and much more finely 



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