ciiRYSis. 485 



oGO. Chrysis orientalis, Gu(-r. (Pyria) Her. Zwl. i84i>, ]). Uo. <S ; 

 M.icx. ( 1 lexachrv'^i-), Mon. Chnj>i. 1889, p. ~iM ; du Jimjx-t. Jour. 

 Bomb. y.H. Hoc. X (1896), p. 477, 2 d- 



$ . Metallic green, in cevtaiu lights brilliant dark blue, the '2nd 

 ^ibdominal segment more decidedly metallic blue ou the sides, the 

 3rd segment dark blue at base, changing to purple and then to 

 green towards the a])ex ; the metlian area of the mesonotum 

 posteriorly and the lateral grooves i)artly blue partly black, the 

 blue extending posteriorly to the scutellum ; antennce and tarsi 

 dusky black, the scape in front bluish metallic green, the basal 

 joint of the llagellum with only a spot of bhiish green at base 

 above; head, thorax and abdomen very coarsely punctured, on 

 the head and thorax the punctures are very close and cribrate 

 mixed with smaller punctures, on the abdomen more distant and 

 even; pilosity abundant, brown and short, in the facial hollow 

 recumbent, white and rather long. Head a little longer than 

 broad, the vertex convex ; clypeus broad, its anterior margin 

 •nedially transverse, not emarginate, and with a small medial 

 convexity; facial hollow broad, shallow, coriaceous within, 

 margined above by a transverse but sinuate carina, above which 

 the front is set with three shallow hollows, the medial hollow 

 margined by a carina and enclosing tlie anterior ocellus ; occiput 

 transvei'se ; antenute somewhat long, cylindrical, the 3rd joint of 

 the dagellum longer than the basal two united, these latter sub- 

 equal. Thorax : the pronotum convex, short, shorter in the 

 middle than at the sides, the sides slightly convergent towards 

 the front, a shallow broad longitudinal impression in the middle 

 anteriorly ; propleuraj excavate, the two deep hollows rugulose 

 within and separated bv a carina ; mesonotum short, broad and 

 convex, with the margin anteriorly depressed into a more or less 

 smooth transversegroove lying between itandthe pronotum ; median 

 area rectangular, widening slightly anteriorly ; scutellum convex, 

 from above semicircular ; mesopleura^ produced, bidentate beneath, 

 the apex separated by a longitudinal broad groove ; postscutellum 

 with a large medial mucro at base, hollow above and overhanging 

 the median segment, the postei-ior lateral angles of the latter 

 strongly produced, acute at apex, concave above, rugulose in the 

 middle, punctured along the margins ; wings f usco-hyaline with a 

 shght purple tint, the nervui'es purplish brown, tegula> purplish 

 blue; legs i-ather long, slender. Abdomen massive, broad, with a 

 short deep longitudinal groove or impression medially at base : 

 2nd and 3rd segments with indications of a niedial longitudinal 

 carina; the 3rd segment slightly incrassate across the middle, the 

 anteapical series of foveic small but distinct, the apical margin with 

 • ! acute triangular teeth disposed on a broad curve, the outer 

 ones the shortest. 



c? . Similar; smaller, slighter, more green, the face and front 

 golden. 



Lai>jih, 2 11-12. 5 lO-il; ex2). $ 23. J 21 mm. 



