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lateral angles with an acuto short tooth, thus making the apical 

 margin tridentate. 

 cf unknown. 



Length, $ 12 ; exp. 22 mm. 



Hob. I procured a single specimen of this very distinct species 

 ' in the verandah of a house in Delhi. It resembles in size and 

 robustness C. oculata, C. principals and Stilbum, and is by far the 

 largest of the tridentate section of Chrysis known to me. 



529. Chrysis mendicalis, Cameron, Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli 



(1897), no. 13, p. 4. 



$ . Metallic green ; the vertex, collar, prothorax in front, median 

 area on the mesonotum, and the discs broadly of the abdominal 

 segments bluish black ; antennae dark brown, the scape in front 

 and basal joint of flagellum above bronzy green ; legs green, tarsi 

 brown above, reddish yellow beneath ; head and thorax with 

 closely serried fine punctures, rugulose, the punctures larger on 

 the thorax posteriorly ; abdomen more finely, evenly and regularly 

 punctured, the punctures slightly larger on the sides and somewhat 

 shallow ; facial cavity minutely transversely rugulose, pubescent ; 

 pilosity pale brown, short, soft, rather sparse. Head thick, broad, 

 occiput rounded, not sharply transverse, vertex and front convex ; 

 facial hollow comparatively deep above, sharply margined by a 

 transverse carina ; antennae thick, slightly flattened, the 2nd joint 

 of the flagellum a little longer than the 3rd ; clypeus transverse 

 or very slightly emargin ate anteriorly in the middle. Thorax : the 

 pronotum short, medially longitudinally sulcate, with also a narrow 

 transverse groove a little in front of the posterior margin; propleurae 

 excavate, mesonotum and scutellum slightly convex ; mesopleurae 

 rugose, two large hollows or foveae one above the other beneath 

 the bases of the wings; postscutellum very convex, gibbous; the 

 posterior lateral angles of the median segment shortly produced, 

 broad, at apex very acute ; wings hyaline, nervures light brown, 

 tegulae green. Abdomen long, the base above with a medial 

 and two lateral shallow wide impressions ; sides nearly parallel, 

 those of the 3rd segment slightly convergent; apical margin of the 

 latter with an acute tooth on each side and one in the middle, the 

 intervals between the teeth undulate ; anteapical series with 6 

 moderately large fovese. 



c? very similar, slightly smaller. 



Length, $ 5'5, tf 5 ; e.vp. $ d 10 mm. 



Hob. Eecorded only from Barrackpore, Bengal (Rjthney). 



Type in Mr. Kothney's collection. 



530. Chrysis lanka, sp. uov. 



2 . Metallic golden green, the middle of the scutellum and of 

 the postscutellum and the discs of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal 



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