-l!>- CUBTSIDIDyi:. 



markings in the middle of the mesonotum and seutellum black or 

 very dark purple ; autenn.o aud tarsi dull black, the scape in front 

 und the basal two segments of the flagellum above dark blue ; head 

 and thorax coarsely and very closely punctured, cribrate ; abdomen 

 very tinely, somewhat densely punctured, the 1st segment with 

 scattered large punctures at base; the punctures on the head and 

 thorax with minute punctures within, those on the abdomen, 

 especially on the apical two segments, shallow ; pilosity short, 

 brownish, only moderately abiuidaiit, sparse on the 2nd abdominal 

 segment, no whitish pubescence in the facial hollow in the three 

 specimens 1 have seen. Head as broad as the pronotum ; clypeus 

 broad, its anterior margin transverse ; facial hollow shallow, 

 margined above, coriaceous within, slightly above it on the front is 

 a sinuate transverse carina, no distinct carina? emitted from it 

 towards the vertex ; antennae long, cylindrical, pubescent ; the 2nd 

 joint of the flagellum twice the length of the 1st ; vertex and front 

 convexly sloping anteriorly ; occiput transverse. Thorax : the 

 pronotum convex, transversely rectangular, the sides with a sinuate 

 margin ; propleura) excavate ; mesonotum and seutellum convex, 

 the latter slightly but suddenly narrowed from near the base to 

 the apex, its posterior margin transverse ; median area of meso- 

 notum I'ectangular, its anterior lateral angles not outwardly 

 curved or broadened ; mesopleura; coarsely rugose, the triangular 

 apex excavate aud margined by a carina : postscutellum semi- 

 circular, not produced or overhanging the median segment ; the 

 latter vertical, with a series of large depressions arranged in V- 

 shape on its postei'ior face, the lateral angles produced, acute, some- 

 what thick : wings hyaline, with a slight fuscous tint anteriorly ; 

 nervures brown, teguhe purple ; legs somewhat robust. Abdomen : 

 the 1st segment anteriorly very slightly concave, a short, broad, 

 medial longitudinal impression at base above ; 2nd and 3rd seg- 

 ments medially carinate, the latter comparatively long, with the 

 middle portion raised in a transverse line in front of the anteapical 

 series of fovese, these very large, well-marked and open ; the 

 apical margin with G teeth, of which the 4 medial are long, narrow 

 and acute, closer to one another than to the outer, somewhat short 

 and obtuse teeth on each side of them. 



d- Two specimens from the Haungdraw valley, Tenasserim, 

 which I identify as the males of this species, are identical in 

 structure and sculpture with the $ , but are entirely green in colour, 

 with black markings similar to those on the 5 . 



Len</fh, 2 9-10,' d '■) ; exp. 2 6 IS ram. 



IJab. Burma: Bhamo district {Fea); Tenasserim, Haungdraw 

 \ alley (Binr/Jiam). 



'i~o. Chrysis obscura, .'Smit/u Juki: Linn. .Soc. v (1801), p. 1)7; 3/asc. 

 (Hexachrysis) Mon. Chri/s. 1889, p. 561. 



2 . Somewhat resembles C. orientalk, Guer., but is decidedly less 

 massive aiul robust, with lighter sculpture on the head and tiiorax 



