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rather more distant on the abdomen; the puncturing on 

 the first segment nearly as strong as on the thorax ; on the 

 two folloAviug segments much finer, increasing gradually 

 in fineness to the apex ; wings hyaline, the nervures black. 

 Hab. — Queensland. 



16. ChrT/sis hipartitus. 



Female. — Length 4-4|^ lines. Head and thorax purple, 

 abdomen golden-green. The face green, the body purple 

 beneath, the femora purple, the tibia3 green ; the face with 

 silvery-white pubescence. The head and thorax coarsely 

 punctured ; wings subhyaline, the nervures fuscous. The 

 abdomen strongly punctured, its extreme base most 

 strongly so. 



Var. The thorax tinged in parts with green. 



Hub. — Australia. 



17. Chrysis varicolor. 



Length 4 lines. Head and thorax varied with blue and 

 green ; abdomen green, with bright-golden and coppery 

 lustre. Head blue ; prothorax green, with a transverse inter- 

 rupted blue line in the middle ; the mesothorax with the 

 middle of the disk and the scutellum blue, the rest purple 

 above, margined laterally with blue ; the metathorax green ; 

 wings fuscous, not very dark, and with their base sub- 

 hyaline ; the nervures black ; the legs and body green 

 beneath. Abdomen : the first segment green, with more 

 or less of a golden lustre, the two following segments Avith 

 a bright-coppery effulgence, the sides more or less golden ; 

 the teeth on the apical margin acute, nearly equidistant, 

 and in a slight curve. The head and thorax strongly and 

 closely punctured. Abdomen rather finely punctured, 

 most strongly so at the base; on the second and third 

 segments the punctures more or less confluent. 



Hab. — Foo-chow. 



Div. 5. The apical segment of the abdomen icith 7 teeth. 



18. Chrysis festinus.* 



Female. — Length 5 lines. Head and thorax green, 

 abdomen blue, with the extreme base more or less green, 

 beneath golden-green. Head : the face covered with silvery 

 pubescence. The anterior angles of the prothorax acute. 

 The head and thorax strongly and very closely punctured ; 



