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centre of the eyes (in the lateral view). The postscutellar 

 appendage is evidently much longer in vareillesi, and is also 

 white (as are likewise the posterior toothlike angles of the 

 thorax), this difference of colour from the metallic areas 

 round it rendering it exceedingly conspicuous. In nilotica 

 both the angles of the thorax and the merely tuberculate 

 apex of the scutelluin are concolorous with the parts 

 adjacent to them (green). It is also slightly smaller than 

 vareillcsi\ the mesopleurae are not pubescent as in that 

 species; and the dorsulum is more largely and uniformly 

 punctured. 



It cannot be confounded with P. schmiedehnechti, Mocs. 

 (from Egypt and Palestine), that species having inter alia 

 the thorax above, including the tegulae. concolorous with 

 the abdomen, and very abnormal characters in the mouth 

 parts, which do not exist in nilotica. 



I am, however, not altogether certain. that it may not 

 prove to be a form of P. elegans, King, described (on a 

 single 9) from Ambukohl, Nubia, and apparently not since 

 rediscovered. The figure in Symb. i'hys. suspiciously 

 resembles it. But the last segment in elegans is described 

 as " laete viridi-aureo," which could hardly be said of any 

 of Dr. Longstaff's specimens. And it should perhaps be 

 noted that elegans was taken in July, but nilotica early 

 in February. 



Chrysis modestior, n. sp. 



Statura minima (long. 3-4i mm.); segmenti abdominalis 3tii 

 aerie anteapicali foveolarum circ-12 rotundarum mediocriter dis- 

 tincta, apice ipso integro, edentato, subtruncato angulis lateralibus 

 rotundatis; postscutello convexo ; oculis hand magma, breviter ac 

 late ovalibus; genis longis, convergent i bus ; cavitate faciali trans- 

 versa, superne hand distincte marginata (sc. carina front ali nulla), 

 in (J argenteo-pilosa, in $ glabra, basi sulco brevi lineari longitudin- 

 alitor impressa, in medio subtiliter oblique striolata, lateribua 

 dense rugoso-punctulatis. 



Corpus superne roseo-violascenti-metallioum, punctis hand pro- 

 fundis sed latis reticulato-scabrum, propterea que parum oitens; 

 infra cyaneum. Cyanea sunt etiam cavitatis facialis pars media, 

 tegulae alarum, propodej apex atque latera (area vero buiua basali 

 subvirescenti-ignca i. ( renae virides. Mesopleurae Bubauratae, Btema 

 vero omnia cyanea. Segmenti abd. 3tii limbua apicalis oyaneus. 

 Venter obscure cyanescens, maculis 2 basalibus segmenti 2di 

 violascentibus. Pedes viridi-cyanei \ «1 oyanei, tarais veto brunneis 



