CHEYSIS. 477 



waiitiug on the abdomen ; the facial hollow and legs \\ ith a little 

 soft line pubescence, silvery in certain lights. Head as broad as 

 loDg, eyes large, vertex convex, clypeiis convex autei'iorly trans- 

 verse and margined in the middle ; facial hollow broad, punctured 

 with a broad, shallow, medial longitudinal groove, smooth or 

 in certain lights indistinctly transversely rugose, the hollow 

 above margined and above that a transverse sinuate carina, the 

 anterior ocellus surrounded by a carina iu a broad loop joining 

 the lower tx'ansverse carina. Thorax : the prouotura transversely 

 rectangular, convex, the mesonotum convex, medial area rect- 

 angular with the anterior angles obliquely broadened ; scutellum 

 transversely rectangular ; propleura) with a deep hollow ; meso- 

 pleurai coarsely cribrately punctate, the apex bluntly angular and 

 excavate, margined by a carina ; postscutellum somewhat narrow, 

 prominent, convex and rounded posteriorly ; median segment de- 

 pi*essed beneath postscutellum, the posterior lateral angles acutelv 

 produced ; wings lightly fusco-hyaline, nervures brown, tegulse 

 brown, bluish in the middle ; legs slender. Abdomen naiTow, the 

 1st segment nearly transverse at base, 2nd segment indistinctly 

 medially longitudinally carinate, 3rd segment transversely convex, 

 the auteapical series of fove;e large, the apical margin with 4 teeth, 

 the two middle teeth closer to one another than either is to the 

 latei'al tooth next to it. 



c? unknown. 



Length, $ 6-7; exp. 13 mm. 



Uab. Kecorded from Lower Burma, Palon (i't'rf) ; Upper Burma, 

 Bhamo {Bingham). 



553. Chrysis shaughaieiisis, .Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 4(;0; 

 du Buyss. Jour. Bomb. X. H. >'Soc. x (1896), p. 47o, pi. S, tig-. 7. 

 Pentachrysis himalayensis, Mocsdn/, Horce Soc. Ent. Ross, xxiii 



(1889), p. 31, d; 

 Pentachrysis crassiscuta, Jlocsdri/, Man. Chrys. 1889, p. ~y2\. 



5 . Head, thorax and abdomen metallic green, the space round 

 the ocelli, the occiput, the mesonotum except a border on each 



side, and the bases and sides broadly 

 of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments 

 deep purple; antennae dusky black, 

 the scape and basal two joints of the 

 Hagellum of the antenna) green, legs 

 green, the inner side of the tibioe and 

 the tarsi reddish brown ; head and 

 thorax very coarsely and closely punc- 

 Y^„ 153 tured, the punctures serried and run- 



Chri/sis shn//gJudc>isi.i, $ . niiig into reticulations ; abdomen a 

 little more finely and distantly punc- 

 tured, the interspaces smooth and polished ; facial cavitv finely 

 punctured. Head broader than long, as broad as the front of 

 the pronotum, occiput seen from above transverse, vertex and 



