ClIRYSIS. 4S3 



deep and distiuet ; apical margin witli 5 teeth, the outer teelh 

 acute, the three iutermediate slightly hroader. (5' uukiiown. 



Lemith, 2 8; exp. Jo mm. 



Bah. Bombay, INIadras {Btit. Mus.). I have only seen the one 

 specimen from Madi'as in the British Museum, wliieh I rather 

 doubtfully identify as this species. 



504. Chrysis danae, sp. dov. 



2 . Metallic green, ^ith golden-yellow tints in certain lights, 

 the abdomen lighter green, with burnished slight coppery tints on 

 the disc of the 1st segment, the sides and apical margins broadly 

 of the 1st and 2nd segments and a transverse band in front of 

 the auteapical series of foveae aei'oss the 3rd segment shining 

 copper colour ; the space round the ocelli and the median area of 

 the mesonotum slightly darker green, the antennte and apical t\\ o 

 or three joints of the tarsi brownish, the scape in front and ba-al 

 two joints of the ftagellum above green ; legs green, shading into 

 coppery golden on the tibia? and basal two joints of tlie tarsi ; 

 head and thorax somewhat coarsely and very closely punctured, 

 granulate, the facial hollow finely rugulose ; abdomen in striking 

 contrast to the tliorax, very minutely and densely reticulate- 

 punctate ; pilosity brownish, very short, somewhat sparse, a little 

 silvery pubescence on the sides of the facial hollow. Head very 

 broad above, the vertex very convex, the eyes prominent and 

 very broadly oval, nearly circular, anteriorly the head is narrowed : 

 clypeus anteriorl}' emarginate in the middle ; facial hollo\\- broad 

 and shallow, extending right up to the inner orbits of the eves 

 and bounded by a continuous carina on the sides and above, no 

 carina around or enclosing the anterior ocellus ; antenna? short and 

 somewhat slender, the 2nd joint of the flagellum much longer than 

 the 1st but only a little longer than the 3rd ; occiput \\idely 

 emarginate. Thorax : the pronotum convex, long, nearly as long 

 as the mesonotum, the sides convergent anteriorly and slightly 

 emarginate, the posterior lateral angles produced and extending 

 back towards the mesopleume ; ])ropleur3e excavate ; mesonotum 

 convex, median area very shortly rectangular and broad, only 

 about a quarter as long again as broad ; scutellum transversely 

 rectangular, convex ; mesopleursD not very rugose nor excavate nor 

 dentate beneath, with no carinte ; postscutellum from above semi- 

 circular, somewhat gibbous and rounded posteriorly ; median 

 segment hidden beneath the postscutellum, but the lateral angles 

 produced, almost lanceolate, the apices acute ; wings hyaline, 

 nervures brown, teguhc green ; legs slender. Abdomen somewhat 

 depressed, not very convex above, the basal segment with a short, 

 broad, shallow medial longitudinal groove at base; 2nd and 3rd 

 segments with a slight but tolerably distinct medial longitudinal 

 carina, the auteapical series of foveiic on the latti-r segment small, 

 the apical margin with 5 very short teeth, the outer somewhat 

 acute, the three intermediate vei*y obtuse. J unknown. 



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