484 C'liRysiDiB-i;. 



Leni/th, 5 0; c.rp. 11 inin. 



II(th. rrocured at jMandalay, Upper Buniia. A very distinct 

 species in colour, sculpture and form. 



oli-j. Chrysis liisca, Fal/r. Si/st. l^ic::. 1804. p. 171 : Mocsdn/ (Penta- 

 chiysi..). Mo,i. Chrys. 1889, p. 527, $ J . (PI. I, fig. 2.) 



$ . ^letallic green or greenish blue, the space round the ocelli 

 and the median area on the uiesonotum purplish black, in part 

 blue ; the base and apical margin of the 3rd abdominal segment, 

 sometimes a large spot in tlie middle of the disc of the same, 

 brilliant metallic blue ; a biu-nished coppery-red spot ou each side 

 of the 2nd segment at apex; antennae and tarsi dusky brownish 

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

 above green or blue ; head, thorax and abdomen evenly and 

 somewhat coarsely punctured, the punctures ou the scutellum 

 and postscutellum coarser than on the rest of the body, on the 

 produced posterior lateral angles of the median segment and on 

 the apical margin of the ;3rd abdominal segment they are markedly 

 fine and dense, mixed with cue or two rather coarser punctures 

 ou the former ; clypeus and facial cavity finely rugulose ; pilosity 

 fairly abundant, short and brownish above, longer beneath the 

 head and on the legs, in the facial hollow long, silky and white. 

 Head broader than long, eyes very large proportionately and 

 prominent ; clypeus widely emarginate in the middle anteriorly ; 

 facial hollow shallow above, not sharply margined ; antennae short, 

 not thick, the 2nd joint of the flagellum more than twice as long 

 as the 1st, transverse frontal carina very close to the upper margin 

 of the facial hollow, the short emitted vertical carina irregular, a 

 short well-marked vertical groove from the anterior ocellus ; occiput 

 transverse. Thorax : the pronotum convex, anteriorly rounded, 

 declivous, with a broad medial longitudinal impression, the sides 

 emarginate ; propleurtc excavate ; uiesonotum convex, the median 

 area t\A'ice as long as broad, rectangular ; mesopleurjc excavate, 

 the apex margined by a fine carina, this latter posteriorly continued 

 obliquely upwards to the base of the wing; scutellum from above 

 broad, convex, transversely rectangular; postscutellum semicircular, 

 somewhat produced and rounded posteriorly, overhanging the 

 median segment, the posterior lateral angles of the last produced, 

 flat ; wings fusco-hyaline, nervures brown, tegula? blue with a 

 little green on the margin. Abdomen : the 1st segment with the 

 base ti'ansverse and three sojuewhat indistinct impressions, no 

 distinct medial carina on 2nd and ord segments, anteapical series 

 of foveas on the latter \Aell-marked, the apical margin with 5 

 almost equal teeth. 



c?. Similar, a little smaller. 



Length, ^ 9-9-5, d 8; e.vp. $ 15, c? 13 mm. 



Nab. Throughout India, Ce}lon and Burma. Extending to 

 Java. Var. concinna 2 i Grribodo, from Minhla in Upper Burma, is 

 a metallic golden green, with the face in front entirely coppery 

 solden. 



