ciiuYsis. 471 



posteriorly, not distinctly margined above ; clypeus slightly 

 emarginate anteriorly ; antenna) thick, tlie 2nd joint of the fla- 

 gelluni longer than the 3rd, the 3rd slightly longer than the 4th ; 

 front and vertex gently convex, sloping anteriorly ; occiput not 

 sharply transverse, rounded. Thorax : the prouotum transversely 

 rectangular, convex from side to side, the sides very slightly 

 broadly emarginate and convergent anteriorly, the anterior lateral 

 angles prominent ; propleune only slightly concave, mesonotum 

 and scutellum gently convex ; the mesopleurao convex, the apex 

 beneath rounded and cut off by thi'ee deep fovea) ; postscutellura 

 rounded and rather prominent postei'iorly ; the produced posterior 

 lateral angles of the median segment small, narrow and acute at 

 apex ; M'ings fusco-hyaliue, nervures brown, teguhne green ; legs 

 rather short and robust. Abdomen broad, massive, concave at 

 base, with a medial and two lateral slight impressions, the sides 

 parallel, towards the apex of the 3rd segment slightly convergent, 

 '2nd segment not or very slightly medially carinate ; 3rd segment 

 with the anteapical series well-marked, the fovesB large and deep, 

 apical mai'giu armed with four broad, very blunt teeth. 



c5" . Smaller; the apical teeth remarkably blunt, their apices 

 almost rounded. 



Length, $ 9-5-10, S i''5 ; exp. $ S 17-18 mm. 



Hah. Probably throughout Continental India, recorded from 

 Deesa {Nurse), Central Provinces aud Western India ( Wroughton), 

 Bangalore (Cotes), Mysore (Lee). 



551. Chrysis perfecta, Cameroyi, Mem. 3£anch. L. Fh. Soc. xli (1897), 

 no. 13, p. 1,$. 

 Chrysis hoggei, Xurse, Entomologist, xxxvi (1903), p. 40. 



(S . Metallic gx-een shaded with blue, the head with a slight 

 golden effulgence, the bases of 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments 

 black, turning" to dark blue towards the disc, the blue on the 3rd 

 segment broader and more extended than on the 2ud ; antennsB 

 dusky black, the scape in front and the basal two joints of the 

 tlagellum, with the base of the 3rd joint, above greenish blue ; legs 

 greenish blue, tarsi yellowish brown ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 closely but not densely punctured, the punctures more shallow and 

 less dense than in G. fasclpennis, which C. perfecta much resembles ; 

 on the abdomen the punctures are liner and even more shallow than 

 on the thorax and head ; facial cavity transversely rugose and 

 thickly covered with rather long white pubescence ; pilosity 

 brownish, fairly abundant, on the abdomen it is very short and 

 more sparse. Head from the front almost subt-riangular, the sides 

 far more convergent and the clypeus nari'ower than in C.fiisci- 

 pennis ; facial cavity shallow, not margined above and A\ith no 

 distinct transverse carina) above it on the front ; antenna) short, 

 the 2nd joint of the tlagelluin the longest ; anterior ocellus not 

 placed in a margined hollow ; eyes above very divergent posteriorly, 

 the vertex very convex and broad ; occii)ut transverse. Thorax : 

 the pronotum transversely rectangular, above with a medial 



