CHRYSIS. 4.'j 7 



with soft white pubescence ; pilosity whitish, short and fairly 

 abundant, on the legs the hairs are long and oblique. Head thick, 

 as long and as broad as the pronotuin ; clypeus wide, medially 

 rectangularly produced, its anterior margin in the middle trans- 

 verse ; i'acial hollow moderately deep, bordered above by an irregular 

 ' transverse carina on the front, the ends of which do not extend to 

 the eyes on each side ; antenna rather slender, the 2nd joint of 

 the flagellum twice as long as the 1st, the 3rd joint very short ; 

 front and vertex broad and lightly convex, occiput very slightly 

 and very widely emarginate, nearly transverse. Thorax : the 

 pronotuin transversely rectangular, the sides of the prothorax 

 concave ; mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum gently convex, 

 the median area of the mesonotum broad, a little longer than broad, 

 mesopleurge finely punctured, strongly convex ; the apex beneath 

 very narrow, subacute and excavate, postscutellum short, crescentic ; 

 median segment with the produced posterior angles very narrow, 

 curved inwards, acute at apex ; wings hyaline, slightly fuscous on 

 the disc, nervures brown, tegulae purple ; legs slender. Abdomen 

 massive, broad, the 1st segment concave at base, shortly and 

 slightly longitudinally impressed above in the middle of its anterior 

 margin ; 2nd and 3rd segments obsoletely medially longitudinally 

 carinate ; the anteapical series of foveae on the latter segment 

 obsolete ; apical margin strongly arched, with four narrow, rather 

 long acute teeth. 



c? . Identical in form and in the armature of the abdomen, but 

 entirely dark green with blue shadings on the thorax and on the 

 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments ; the puncturing is much coarser, 

 almost granulate. 



Lety/th, $ 9, <$ 8-75 ; exp. $ <$ 17 mm. 



Hob. So far recorded only from Northern Gujerat, Deesa (Nurse) ; 

 Delhi (Binyhani). 



537. Chrysis ammlata, du Buyss. Rev. tfEnt. vi (1887), p. 19:?, rf; id. 

 1. c. xix (1900), p. 148, $ ; Macs. (Tetrachrysis), Mon. Chrys. 

 1889, p. 4>. (PI. I. fig. 14.) 



Chrysis fulvicornis, Mocs. (Tetrachrysis), Mon. Chrys. 1889, p. 4i>7. 

 Chrvsis quettaensis & C. balucha, Nurse, Bttomologi*, xx.\\i 

 (1903), p. 41. 



$ . Metallic light golden green, the median area of the meso- 

 notum, the hollows in the propleurae, the coxa?, femora and til>i;i- 

 of the legs, and the apical margin of the 3rd abdominal segment 

 dark metallic blue ; the 1st, 2nd and basal area of 3rd abdominal 

 segment effulgent, golden, coppery red ; antennae and tarsi brown, 

 the scape in front and the basal two joints of the nagellum abou* 

 green ; head, thorax and abdomen somewhat coarsely and viry 

 evenly and closely punctured ; the facial cavity finely rugulose ; 

 pilosity yellowish 'white, short, rather sparse. Head as long and 

 as broad as the pronotum; clypeus broad, slightly emarginate in the 

 middle anteriorly ; facial cavity moderately deep, clothed \\ ith \.-ry 

 short white pubescence, margined above and with a transverse 



