CHETSIS. 441 



very distinct, with 8 foveae, the base of the 1st segment slightly 

 concave, the 2nd segment with a medial longitudinal slight cariua. 



6 unknown. 



LengtJi, $ 5'5; exp. 11 mm. 



Hob. Procured at Pishin, Baluchistan (Nurse). 



515. Chrysis nila, sp. nov. 



6 Head, greater part of thorax, and the basal abdominal seg- 

 ment dingy bluish green ; the space round the ocelli, the meso- 

 notum and the apical two abdominal segments black, purplish in 

 certain lights, with the apical margins of the latter green ; antennae 

 dark brown ; legs, the coxae and femora purplish black, the tibiae 

 and tarsi dark brown ; head and thorax finely punctured, slightly, 

 very finely granulate ; facial hollow and abdomen minutely punc- 

 tured, the punctures shallow, not giving a granulate appearance ; 

 pilosity brownish, fairly abundant. Head thick, broad, longer 

 and broader than the pronotum, constricted anteriorly, the occiput 

 somewhat sharply transverse, the front and vertex broad and 

 slightly convex ; the facial hollow almost obsolete, the face only 

 slightly concave and medially longitudinally grooved ; antennae 

 long and slender, the 2nd joint of the flagellurn very little longer 

 than the 3rd ; the cheeks and mandibles long, the latter bidentate 

 at apex. Thorax : the pronotum long, nearly as long as broad, 

 the sides parallel ; propleurse not excavate, the sides of the pro- 

 thorax slightly concave ; mesonotum and scutellum slightly convex ; 

 mesopleurae slightly convex, rugulose, the triangular apex beneath 

 separated from the upper portion by a deep groove ; postscutellum 

 convex ; the produced posterior lateral angles of the median 

 segment rather long, narrow, acute at apex and curved backwards ; 

 wings hyaline, iridescent, the nervures and tegulae dark brown. 

 Abdomen convex, moderately long, the ls,t segment transverse at 

 base, slightly impressed in the middle above, the 2nd segment- 

 not carinate, the 3rd segment has the sides continuous with the 

 margin, forming a narrow arch, the latter entire, not dentate ; 

 anteapical series very close to the margin, not very distinct, the 

 foveae small, punctiform. 



$ unknown. 



Length, tf barely 5 ; exp. 8 mm. 



Hob. Northern Gujerat, Deesa (Nurse). 



510. Chrysis kashmirensis, Nurse, Entomologist, xxxv (1902), p. 307. 



$ . Uniform greenish blue, in certain lights more blue than 

 green ; the median area of the mesonotum and the scutellum deep 

 ultramarine-blue; antennae brown, the scape in front and tin- 

 basal two joints of the flagellum above green ; legs green ; tarsi 

 brown; head and thorax rugose, very densely punctured, the 

 punctures irregular in part, cribrate and within finely punctured ; 

 abdomen rather more finely and less densely punctured, the 

 punctures shallow, with a mixture of larger and deeper punctures ; 



