430 CHRYSIUtlX'E. 



511. Hedychrum lugubre, Cameron, Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli, 

 (1897), no. 13, p. 0, pi. 16, fig. 10. 



$ cJ . Green : the vertex, the front, the middle of the pro- 

 notum and a medial transverse mark on the same posteriorly, the 

 whole base and median area of the mesonotutn, the middle of the 

 scutellum, the discs of the 1st and 2nd and the base somewhat 

 narrowly of the 3rd abdominal segment deep blue ; antennae dark 

 brown, the scape in front bright green ; legs greeu, the tarsi 

 reddish brown ; head and thorax densely punctured, the punctures 

 subserried and increasing in size on the thorax posteriorly ; the 

 abdomen neatly, regularly punctured, the punctures down the 

 middle of the abdomen above markedly smaller than those on 

 the sides ; facial cavity densely minutely punctured, rugulose ; 

 pilosity very short, abundant, brown. Head as broad as the front 

 of the pronotum, the occiput sharply transverse, the vertex and 

 front convex ; the facial cavity deep, sharply margined by a 

 transverse carina above ; antennae short, rather slender ; 2nd joint 

 of the flagelluin longer than the 3rd. Thorax proportionately broad 

 and massive ; pronotum very long, convex above, the sides slightly 

 convergent to the front ; mesonoturn and scutellum slightlv 

 convex ; mesopleurffl broad and rugose, somewhat flat : post- 

 scutellum very convex and gibbous : the produced lateral angles 

 of the median segment proportionately large, pointing outwards 

 and acute at apex ; wings hyaline, nervures yellowish brown ; 

 tegulse dark brown. Abdomen broad and very convex above, 

 base transverse ; apical margin broadly rounded, entire, with a 

 minute tooth on each side, traces of a groove laterally at the 

 apical margin. 



Length, $ rf 4-5 ; exp. $ 3 G mm. 



Hal. Procured by Mr. Eothney at Barrackpore, Bengal. Type 

 in his collection. 



Subfamily CHRYSIDIN^. 



This subfamily contains the bulk of the species of Chrysididcn . 

 These vary very much in size, but on the whole are larger than 

 the species of the Ellampime, from which they are distinguished by 

 the claws of the tarsi being simple and not dentate, the stigmata 

 on median segment being beneath, not above the produced lateral 

 angles of the same, and by the more complete neuration (except 

 in the genus Chrysoyona) of the fore wing, the 1st discoidal cell 

 being (in Indian species at all events) always complete. As a rule 

 the apical margin of the abdomen is dentate : one section, however, 

 has the margin simply rounded, somewhat as in the Ellampincx, 

 but the abdomen is rarely or never so convex, and the transverse 

 anteapical series of foveaj is more or less always present. 



