308 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



length of head and thorax united; clypeus convex, its anterior margin 

 slightly concave ; a conspicuous | -shaped carina in front of anterior 

 ocellus, and the front below it slightly concave, finely and very 

 closely punctured, the punctures running into striae, and with a median 

 longitudinal carina ; a median longitudinal depression on the basal 

 half of pronotum ; 1st and 2nd abdominal segments with a trace of a 

 median longitudinal carina, 3rd segment rounded posteriorly, with 

 subapical fovefe. Dark blue ; front, pronotum, and the centre ot 

 1st abdominal segment green ; scutellum and large lateral spots on 

 1st abdominal segment coppery golden ; postscutellum bright greenish 

 golden ; scape and first two joints of flagellum of antennae blue or 

 blue-green, remaining joints and tarsi reddish black ; fore wing sub- 

 fuscous, hind wing hyaline, radial cell of fore wing closed. 



(?. Differs only in having the vertex of the head green, and the 

 mesonotum, and 2nd and 8rd abdominal segments of a greenish blue 

 colour ; the eyes are somewhat convergent below, not parallel, as in 

 the female, and the joints of the antennae are thicker and somewhat 

 shorter. Long. 9-11 mm. 



Hab. Mt. Abu ; common in September and October. 



ChRYSIS CHAVANiE, n. Sp. 



? . Head and thorax closely but somewhat irregularly, abdomen 

 rather more regularly and finely punctured ; head wider than pro- 

 notum, the latter with sides almost parallel ; 1st abdominal segment 

 with a deep median longitudinal indentation at base, 2nd and 3rd 

 segments with traces of a carina, apical segment without teeth, slightly 

 sinuate. Head and thorax dark blue, the mesonotum with greenish 

 reflections; abdomen light metallic green, with a coppery effulgence 

 on 2nd and 3rd segments ; legs dark blue ; flagellum of antennae 

 piceous ; tarsi dark red or reddish black ; the whole insect more or 

 less covered with rather sparse greyish pubescence ; wings hyaline, 

 fore wing with the central portion very slightly infuscated, nervures 

 dark testaceous. Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. Quetta ; a single specimen. 



(To be continued.) 



ON THE BUTTERFLIES COLLECTED IN EQUATORIAL 

 AFRICA BY CAPTAIN CLEMENT SYKES. 



By Emily Mary Shakpe. 

 (Continued from p. 280.) 



35. Acr^a Cecilia (a variety). — a, <? . March from Usoga to 

 Nandi; April, 1900. 



This species has the black spots on the primaries larger, 

 especially those at the end of the discoidal cell. The same thing 

 occurs with the discal spots on the secondaries, the first three 

 being black streaks ; with the costal one united to the hind 

 marginal border. 



