4^2 CHBYSIDID.-E. 



black, the scape in front and the basal joint of the flagellutn above 

 bluish or greenish ; legs green, tarsi reddish brown ; head and 

 thorax somewhat densely punctured, the punctures large and small 

 mixed ; abdomen more 'finely, evenly and very closely punctured ; 

 facial cavity rugulose, pubescent, the pubescence in part hiding the 

 sculpture ; pilosity brownish, short and abundant. Head thick, 

 as broad as or slightly broader than the front of the pronotum ; 

 facial cavity deep, above acutely margined, front and vertex pro- 

 portionately broad and convex ; the antennae thick, the 1st joint 

 of the flagellum small, the 2nd longer 

 than the 3rd, the 3rd and 4th subequal ; 

 occiput from above slightly widely emar- 

 ginate. Thorax : the pronotum short, 

 transversely rectangular : propleurae ex- 

 cavate ; mesonotum and scutellum slightly 

 convex ; rnesopleurse rugose, the apex 

 excavate, margined and subacute ; post- 

 scutellum rounded posteriorly, prominent 

 an( j convex; posterior lateral angles of 

 ^.^ ^^ moderately broad f y pro . 



duced, acute at apex, slightly curved ; wings hyaline, nervures 

 dark brown, tegulae blue. Abdomen somewhat short and broad, 

 with three wide but shallow impressions at base, the three seg- 

 ments medially longitudinally carinate, the 3rd segment slightly 

 transversely incrassate before the anteapical series, the fovete 

 comparatively large and open, the apical margin of the 3rd segment 

 sinuate, laterally bidentate. 



<$ . Similar. The one 1 have seen slightly broader and shorter. 



Length, <jj 375; J 3'5; exp. $ <J 6mm. 



Hob. Within our limits recorded from Bombay, Poona 

 (Wi-ouyhton'). Found in Southern Europe, Northern Africa, 

 and Persia. 



1 have taken the above description from a specimen from Spain, 

 in the British Museum Collection. According to Mocsiiry, the 

 apical margin of the 3rd abdominal segment is variable. 



Genus STILBUM. 

 Stilbuin, Spinola, Ins. Liy. i (1806), p. 9. 



Type, S. cyanurum, Forst., from Europe. 



Itanye. Both hemispheres. 



$ d . Head much narrower than the pronotum, very short, the 

 occiput more or less rounded, the vertex and front convex, very 

 narrow, the eyes occupying more than two-thirds of the whole 

 width of the face ; the sides of the head and the cheeks elongate, 

 tin- mandibles produced somewhat into the shape of a beak ; the 

 clypeus also produced, anteriorly medially emarginate ; facial 

 hollow deep, transversely striate, above not margined ; antennce 



