486 CHRYSIDID.i:. 



Tiah. Northern India : Allahabad, Lahore, Delhi {Bhuiham) : 

 Deesa {yurse) ; Western India, Poena to Mysore ( Wrovr/hion cV 

 JOee); Central Provinces (BetJiam) ; not recorded from Burma 

 or Tenasserim, but probably extending throughout them to the 

 Malayan subregion and New Guinea. 



507. Chrysis indica, Mocsan/ (Ilexacluysis), Mon. Chrys. 1889,. 

 p. 591. 6- ' 



S . Metallic blue ; the head, pronotum, mesonotum and apex of 

 basal two abdominal segments with shades of green ; the space 

 round the ocelli, the posterior half or two-thirds of the medial 

 area of the mesonotuui and a medial longitudinal band on the 

 scutellum black ; anteunje and tarsi dusky black ; the scape in 

 front, the coxee, trochanters, femora and tibia) metallic green; 

 head and thorax densely punctured, cribrate, the base of the 

 abdomen with large scattered punctures, the spaces between 

 minutely punctured, the remainder of the abdomeu more tineh' 

 punctured than the thorax, but equally closely ; the facial hollow 

 finely punctured, the punctures running into transverse striae in 

 certain lights ; pilosity abundant, pale brown, longest on the sides 

 of the facial hollow. Head a little longer than broad, narrowing 

 anteriorly ; clypeus raised a little and transverse in the middle ; 

 antennie rather long, cylindrical, the basal two joints of the flagellum 

 subequal, the 3rd joint a little longer than the 4th and more than 

 twice the length of the 2nd, a transverse curved carina a little 

 above the upper margin of the facial hollow, the anterior ocellus 

 placed on the upper side of a small frontal liollow that is margined 

 by carina;. Thorax : the pronotum transversely rectangulai', the 

 posterior lateral angles produced back ; the medial area of the 

 mesonotum longitudinally rectangular, the anterior and posterior 

 lateral augles of tlie area a little produced ; uiesopleurae rugose, 

 slightly excavate towards the apex beneath and produced into an 

 acute triangular tooth ; scutellum ti'ansverse, convex ; postscutellum 

 with a medial mucro at base pointing backwards ; median segment 

 short and truncate posteriorly, its posterior lateral angles trian- 

 gularly produced. AVings fusco-hyaline, nervures brown, tegulce 

 blue : legs short and rather slender. Abdomen : the basal segment 

 widely emarginate at base and with a short broad medial sulcus ; 

 2nd segment not or only indistinctly medially carinate, its 

 posterior lateral angles prominent ; 3rd segment short, the apical 

 margin with G prominent triangular teeth, the indentations 

 between them semicircular ; an auteapical row of IS round 

 punctures, not foveate. 



Lenr/tJi, c? 9 ; ea^J. 17 mm. 



IJah. " India orientalis," Mus. Hung. (Mocsftr>/) ; Upper Burma 

 (Fea). 



I have not seen a 5 of this species. 



