ciiiasis. 491 



above tlie facial hollow with a transverse carina, the little cariua- 

 branching ui)\vards from the latter irregular ; head po-^teriorly 

 transverse; antennte short, somewhat thick : the 2nd joint of the 

 Hagellum long, more than twice the length of the 1st joint. 

 Thorax massive ; the pronotum very convex, transversely rect- 

 angidar, the sides widely emarginate anteriorly, a slight depression 

 in the middle ; propleura; with two large de])ressions ; mesonotum. 

 scntellum and postscutellum forming a regular and somewliat 

 gentle convexity : the median segment depressed and with a broad 

 V-shaped lioilow posteriorly formed of 4 large depressions, the 

 posterior lateral angles broadly produced, subacute ; mesopleura" 

 coarsely irregularly cribrate, blunt beneath, the apex margined by a 

 carina, which is continued posteriorly up to the bases of tlie wings ; 

 the latter brownish hyaline, the nervures brown, the tegnlae with 

 the basal half blue, the outer half green : legs short and robust. 

 Abdomen: the basal segment suberaarginate in the middle at base, 

 the 2nd and 'h-d segments medially broadly subcarinate : the ante- 

 apical series of foveae on the ord segment large and well-marked : 

 the apical margin with 6 large triangular teeth, the medial 4 sub- 

 acute and long, the outer one on each side shorter, broader, more 

 obtuse. 



<S . iSimilar, smaller and slighter. 



Length, 5 12-13, exj). 22 ; leur/tJi, d" 10. e.vp. 21 mm. 



Bab. Recorded from the Himalayas ; Bengal {Mocsdnj) : Poona 

 (Wfouc/hton) ; Ceylon (Ilocsar)/); Burma and Tenasserim {Biu>/- 

 ham). Extending to China and the Malayan subregion. 



573. Chrysis comottii, Gn'L A7v/. 3Ius. Cic. Gen. (1884), p. 367. 

 Chry.sis insularis, Smith {nee Gner.), Jour. Linn. Soc. iii (1859), 



p. 20. 



2 . Exceedingly like C. principalis, Smith, of which it may be 

 merely a local race. Differs in having the pronotum, the anterior 

 half of the mesonotum and the abdomen much more sparingly 

 punctured than in C principaVts ; the intervals bet^^"een the large 

 punctures on the mesonotum and pronotum are, in the type speci- 

 men in the British Museum, minutely punctured, and the punc- 

 turing on the abdomen is much more regular and neater than in 

 C. princijialis. Beyond this I can see no difference. 



Length, 2 11-12; exy. 22 mm. 



Hab. Pondicherry (Gribodo) ; Upper Burma, Meiktila ( Comottii). 

 Extending to the Malayan subregion. 



574. Chrysis feana, Mosc. (Hexachry.-is). 7'er7ncsz. Fiizetc/.-. \v. (1892). 



p. L'3-J. 



$ . ^Metallic dark green ; the occiput, the median segment 

 posteriorly and the middle from the base to near the apex of the 

 2nd abdominal segment dark metallic blue, the 'Wd segment entirely 

 dark blue except for a transverse narrow band of gre(>n in front of 

 the anteapical series of fovea); the space round the ocelli, three 

 spots in a transverse row on the disc of the pronotum, and some 



