470 (■mivsiDiD.E. 



size, the width across clypeus between base of mandibles about 

 the same as across the vertex between the tops of the eyes ; clypeus 

 broad, its anterior margin sinuate, facial hollow rather shallow, the 

 transverse carina on front above its upper margin indistinct, 

 anterior ocellus large, not enclosed by a carina. Thorax some- 

 what narrow, the pronotum transversely rectangular, with a 

 medial bi'oad short groove, the mesonotum convex, the medial area 

 rectangular, about twice as long as broad, pro- and mesopleurse 

 not very rugose, the latter excavate at apex, and also obliquely 

 grooved and margined all round ; scutellum and postscutellum 

 rounded posteriorly, convex, the latter not gibbous, posterior 



Fig. 157. — Chri;sis angustntri, g. a. Head from front. 



lateral angles of the median segment moderately produced ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline, nervures brown, tegulte purplish bine; legs 

 somewhat slender. Abdomen somewhat long and narrow, the base 

 of the 1st segment widely emargiuate and with a slight medial 

 impression ; 2nd segment medially slightly, but distinctly carinate ; 

 3rd segment convex in the middle, about two-thirds of the length 

 of the 2nd segment, the anteapical row of fovese rounded, small, 

 apical margin with four somewhat blunt broad teeth. 



Length, 5 9*5-10 ; eay. 18 mm. 



Hah. Eecorded so far from Upper Burma, Mandalay {Feci Sf 

 Bing7iam) ; Maymyo, 3000 ft. (Bingham). I bred this species from 

 cells of Odgnerus muliijiictus, Smith, formed in a hole in a block 

 of teak timber. 



550. Chrysis COtesi, dn Buysson, Bev. d''E7jt. xii (1893), p. 249; id. 

 Jour. Bomb. N. 11. Soc. x (189G), p. 472. 



$ . Brilliant metallic green, slightly blue on the mesonotum 

 and above all on the apical abdominal segment; in a specimen 

 from Deesa the mesonotum is almost entirely blue, antennae dark 

 bi'own, the scape and the basal two joints of the flagellum above 

 green ; legs green, tarsi reddish brown ; head, thoraxand abdomen 

 somewhat finely and not very closely punctured, the intermediate 

 spaces highly polished, shining and brilliant, on the top of the 

 head the punctures run into reticulations ; facial cavity rather 

 more minutely punctured, covered with long white pubescence, 

 which partially conceals the sculpture ; pilosity brownish, very 

 short and rather sparse. Head as broad as the pronotum in 

 front or slightly broader ; facial cavity deep and slightly constricted 



