HOLOPYGA. 423 



502. Holopyga nursei, sp . nov. (PI. I, fig. 16.) 



d 1 . Bright metallic green, with blue shades in certain lights, the 

 lateral areas of the mesonotum and the scutellum aeneous golden ; 

 antennae dark brown, the scape in front purple, the tarsi yellowish 

 brown ; head and pronotum moderately punctured, the punctures 

 on the prouotum rather sparse, with minute punctures in the 

 interspaces, rest of the thorax and the median segment cribrate, 

 the large coarse punctures minutely punctured within ; abdomen 

 very finely and closely punctured, the punctures shallow ; facial 

 cavity minutely transversely striate, with a fine thin whitish 

 pubescence not hiding the sculpture ; pilosity whitish, moderately 

 abundant, very short. Head thick, not quite so broad as the 

 pronotum and a little longer than broad ; clypeus bVoad, arched 

 anteriorly and emargiuate in the middle ; facial hollow deep, 

 arched above, not margined ; antennae long, the 2nd joint of the 

 flagellum twice as long as the 1st, the 3rd and 4th joints subequal ; 

 front and vertex very convex, moderately broad ; occiput widely 

 and very distinctly emarginate, the sides behind the eyes produced 

 posteriorly but not so prominently as in H. indica. Thorax : 

 the pronotum long and massive, very convex, slightly declivous 

 anteriorly, the sides somewhat converging to the front ; pro- 

 pleurae excavate ; mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum convex, 

 the latter with a gentle rounded slope posteriorly ; mesopleura 

 rugose, strongly convex, the apex beneath subacute ; postscutellum 

 large and prominent, overlying the median segment, this latter 

 with large shallow foveae at the sides, the posterior lateral angles 

 produced, thick, acute at apex ; wings hyaline, iridescent, the 

 nervures light, tegulse dark testaceous brown ; legs moderately long 

 and stout. Abdomen short, broad, very convex above, truncate 

 at base, broadly rounded at apex, the margin entire. 



Length, tf 4'5 ; fxp. 8-5 mm. 



Hob. Northern Grujerat, Deesa (Nurse). 



503. Holopyga cupreata, Nurse, Entomologist, xxxv ( 1902), p. 305, rf. 



" tf . Front below vertex to base of antennae very concave, and 

 finely transversely striate; head behind ocelli somewhat finely 

 punctured ; remainder of head, thorax and median segment coarsely, 

 abdomen closely and finely punctured ; head slightly wider than 

 pronotum ; abdomen slightly longer and broader than thorax ; a 

 little short sparse pubescence, visible only with a lens, on the head, 

 legs and abdomen ; a trace of a median longitudinal carina on the 

 2nd abdominal segment. Head and thorax dark blue, the vertex, 

 pronotum and mesonotum with a greenish tinge; abdomen brilliant 

 coppery golden, scape of antennae dark blue, flagellum and tarsi 

 very dark testaceous, almost black ; wings hyaline at base, the 

 outer half tinged with fuscous, the tegulae black." (Nurse.) 



Lenyth, tf 5'6 mm. 



Nab. Kashmir, 5000-6000 feet : two specimens. 



Unknown to me. 



