420 CUKYSIDIDJE. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Postscutellum without a mucro E. timidus, p. 420. 



b. Postscutellum with a mucro at base E. kashmirensis, p. 420. 



499. Ellampus timidus, Nurse, Entomologist, xxxv (1902), p.305, $ d" 

 (PI. I, fig. 11.) 



$ . Head dark blue, thorax bluish green, abdomeu dark indigo- 

 blue, appearing black in certain lights, antennae dark brown, the 

 scape purple, tarsi yellowish brown; head above and thorax 

 anteriorly with large, coarse, somewhat effaced punctures ; thorax 

 posteriorly cribrate ; abdomen smooth, very highly polished, un- 

 punctured; facial hollow smooth, polished and shining within, 

 without- pubescence : pilosity very sparse, fine and short, only 

 visible in certain lights. Head transverse, very broad, almost twice 

 as broad as long ; eyes proportionately large and prominent ; facial 

 hollow deep, rounded above, with a very narrow but distinct 

 chitinous brown margin; antennae thick, comparatively long, the 

 2nd joint of the flagellum the longest ; vertex and front broad, 

 convex ; occiput sharply transverse. Thorax : the pronotum 

 declivous, nearly vertical, broad, rounded from side to side an- 

 teriorly ; the propleurae flat, slightly excavate ; mesonotum, 

 scutellum and postscutellum very convex ; inesopleurse broad, 

 subtriangular, punctured, the apex beneath not acute ; median 

 segment with the posterior lateral angles strongly produced, broad, 

 acute at apex; wings delicate, hyaline and iridescent, nervures 

 brown, tegulae green ; legs slender. Abdomen short, broad and 

 convex, the base transverse, the apex declivous, acutely rounded ; 

 the apical margin in the middle transverse, chitinous, translucid, 

 and minutely emarginate. 



" tf. Similar, more conspicuously shining; vertex of head, 

 pronotum and mesonotum above almost, if not quite, impuuctate.'' 

 (Nurse.) 



Length, 5 cJ 2*5-3 ; eocp. 5 mm. 



Hob. Baluchistan ; Quetta, Pishin (Nurse). 



oOO. Ellampus kashmirensis, Nurse (Notozus), Entomologist, xxxv 

 (1902), p. 305, $d. 



$ cf . Metallic purple-blue, turning to green in certain lights, 

 the flagellum of the antenna? dark brown, the tarsi reddish brown : 

 head and thorax somewhat sparsely and moderately coarsely 

 punctured, the punctures minute and dense along the anterior 

 margin of the mesonotum, and very large and rugose on the 

 scutellum, postscutellum and median segment ; abdomen very 

 minutely, regularly and rather closely punctured ; facial cavity 

 finely striate, the striae running from each side obliquely upwards ; 

 pilosity brownish, very short and sparse. Head about as long 

 and as broad as the pronotum, to which it is closely applied ; 

 occiput transverse, vertex and front sloping, anteriorly rounded, 

 slightly convex ; facial cavity shallow, grooved longitudinally in 



