458 CHEYS1D1D2B. 



somewhat irregular carina above the margin on the front, anterior 

 ocellus not enclosed within carinae, vertex convex, occiput trans- 

 verse ; antennae : the 2nd and 3rd joints of the flagellum subequal. 

 Thorax : the pronotum transversely rectangular, the sides parallel ; 

 a shallow medial longitudinal groove anteriorly above ; mesonotum 

 and scutellum convex, the median area on former rectangular ; 

 mesopleurae with a broad longitudinal impression from beneath the 

 wings to the apex beneath, bordered posteriorly and round the 

 apex by a carina, the apex not dentate ; postscutellum sloping 

 posteriorly, rounded ; posterior lateral angles of the median seg- 

 ment produced, flat above, acute at apex ; wings hyaline, nervures 

 brown, tegulae metallic dark blue. Abdomen a little longer than 

 the head and thorax united, the 1st segment transverse at base, 

 not or very slightly impressed in the middle above ; 2nd segment 

 more or less medially distinctly carinate ; 3rd segment depressed 

 transversely at base in front of the anteapical series of foveae, these 

 latter B-8 in number, large and open below, apical margin with 

 4 almost equidistant teeth. 



<f . Differs from the $ in being entirely green, with in certain 

 lights a cupreous spot on each side of the apical margin of the 2nd 

 abdominal segment ; the puncturing is a little coarser, especially on 

 the abdomen ; the flagella of the antennae and the tarsi brownish 



C" >w, the 4th joint of the former being longer than any of the 

 I three joints. 



Length, $ 6-5-7, rf 6-6'8 ; exp. $ <$ 13 mm. 

 Hob. Syria, Arabia, Persia, Turkestan, extendinginto Baluchistan ; 

 Quetta (Nurse), but not recorded from any other locality within 

 our limits. It is an extremely variable species, a specimen ( cf ) 

 also from Quetta is very much more blue than green. 



538. Chrysis apiata, du Buyss. Rev. $Ent. xix (1900), p. 149, rf. 

 Chrysis lucinda, Nurse, Entomologist, xxxvi (1903), p. 12, $ tf. 



$ . Head and thorax metallic green with golden effulgence ; 

 basal two segments of abdomen coppery golden, basal half of the 

 3rd segment deep blue, apical half and a tine median longitudinal 

 line through the blue, green with golden effulgence ; scape of the 

 antennae and coxae, femora and tibiae of the legs metallic blue ; 

 flagellum and tarsi reddish brown, the basal joint of the former 

 greenish or bluish above ; head, thorax and abdomen somewhat 

 coarsely and closely punctured, the punctures on the head and 

 thorax cribrate, on the discs of the segments of the abdomen a 

 little more distant ; pilosity soft, white, fairly abundant but short, 

 oblique on the abdomen. Head from above about as long and as 

 broad as the thorax ; clypeus short, broad, indistinctly vertically 

 carinate, the apex in the middle emarginate ; facial hollow not 

 margined or carinate above, medially with a short, shallow longi- 

 tudinal groove and with recumbent silvery pubescence within, no 

 frontal carince ; occiput slightly and very widely emarginate. 



