ciinYsis. 467 



postscutellum and minute along the anterior margin of the 

 mesonotum ; abdomen thickly punctured, the punctures shallow, 

 moderately large and running into reticulations on the basal two 

 segments, minute and very dense on the 3rd segment ; facial 

 hollow densely minutely reticulate-punctate, covered with sparse 

 yellow erect pilosity ; the pilosity on the rest of the head and 

 thorax yellow, long and abundant, on the abdomen very short, 

 somewhat sparse. Head broader than the front of the pronotum, 

 vertex and front convex and sloping anteriorly; facial cavity 

 comparatively deep, rather sharply margined above by a transverse 

 carina, with, however, no subsidiary cainnse emitted towards the 

 ocelli ; antennte long and slender, the 2nd joint of the flagellum 

 remarkably long, more than twice the length of the 3rd. Thorax : 

 the pronotum subcylindrical, impressed in the middle anteriorly, 

 the sides strongly convergent towards the front ; propleurae deeply 

 excavate ; mesonotum and scutellum gently convex ; mesopleurse 

 very rugose and impressed with 3 or 4 deep fovea) ; postscutellum 

 rounded posteriorly, bearing a slight impression in the middle 

 at base ; the produced lateral angles of the median segment 

 broad, convex, blunt at apex. Abdomen broad, rather depressed, 

 at base slightly concave, with a medial short longitudinal, somewhat 

 deep depression above ; sides of the 1st and 2nd segments parallel, 

 sides of the 3rd convergent posteriorly ; 2nd and 3rd abdominal 

 segments medially longitudinally carinate ; anteapical series on 

 3rd segment well-defined, but the fovese round and small ; apical 

 margin armed with four equidistant acute teeth, the outer dis- 

 tinctly larger than the intermediate teeth. 



S unknown. 



Lewith, 5 8; exp. 15 mm. 



Jlai). Sikhim, Eungaroon, 7000 ft. {Binrjlmm). 



548. Chrysis fuscipennis, Bridle, Hist. Nat. Ins., Hym. iv (1846), 

 p. 38; Mocsdri/ (Tetrachrysis), Mon. Chn/s. 1889, p. 370 : du Bw/ss. 

 Juur. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x (1896), p. 472. (PI. I, tig. 1.) 



2 . Metallic green, shaded with varying amounts of metallic 

 blue ; the posterior portion of the median area of the mesonotum 

 always more or less black ; antennae and tarsi dusky black, the 

 scape in front and the basal two joints of the flagellum (in some 

 specimens only the basal joint) bluish green ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen coarsely punctured, the punctures on the abdomen above 

 smaller, more widely spaced, slightly foveate and delicately rugu- 

 lose within ; facial hollow finely and very closely rugulose ; 

 pilosity brownish, fairly abundant, long and more dense beneath, 

 the sides of the facial hollow with long recumbent white hairs. 

 Head a little longer than broad, not quite so broad as the 

 pronotum ; antenna; long, cylindrical ; facial hollow very large, 

 extending to the margin of the clypeus, narrowed above and 

 bordered by a transverse carina ; anterior ocellus in a fovea, with 

 a transverse carina just above it, and a short carina on each side 



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