CHBYSIS. 459 



Thorax : the pronotum convex, nearly transversely rectangular : 

 the sides sinuate and slightly longer than the notum in the middle, 

 where there is a medial, broad, shallow longitudinal groove not 

 quite reaching the posterior margin ; propleurse excavate ; meso- 

 notum, scutellum and postscutellum slightly convex ; the median 

 area on the metanotum rectangular, a little widened anteriorly and 

 posteriorly ; mesopleurae a little more coarsely rugose than the 

 thorax above, the apex beneath margined by a carina which is 

 continued up on the posterior side to beneath the base of the 

 wings ; postscutellum slightly gibbous, the median segment de- 

 pressed beneath it, the posterior lateral angles of the latter 

 produced, acute ; wings hyaline, nervures brown, tegulae greenish 

 blue ; legs comparatively short. A bdomen proportionately massive, 

 the 1st segment at base widely emarginate, slightly impressed in 

 the middle above, with the anterior angles prominent ; 2nd seg- 

 ment indistinctly medially longitudinally carinate ; 3rd segment 

 elliptical ; the anteapical series of foveae rather small ; the apical 

 margin with 4 rather long triangular acute teeth, the outer ones 

 the shorter. 



c? . Similar ; the flagellum of the antennae a lighter brown, the 

 1st and 2nd segments metallic green with a golden effulgence, 

 but not with the beautiful coppery golden sheen of the $ in the 

 specimen I have seen. The type-specimen, however, according to 

 du Buysson has the abdomen fiery golden (" feu-dore"). 



Length, $ 8, rf 7 ; exp. $ 16, <$ 15 mm. 



Hub. Baluchistan, Quetta (Nurse); extending to Persia (du Buys- 

 son). 



539. Chrysis greeni, sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 7.) 



$ . Head, pronotum, scutellum, postscutellum, median segment 

 and sides of the thorax metallic green, the space round the ocelli 

 and the middle of the occiput black, the former shading into dark 

 blue on the margins ; the mesonotum, the discs of the basal two 

 abdominal segments, and the disc and apical margin of the 3rd 

 segment dark metallic purple, this purple on all the segments 

 bordered by green and succeeded on the apical margins of the 1st 

 and 2nd segments by a broad transverse bar of fiery metallic red ; 

 scape of the antennae and basal joint of the flagellum above green, 

 remainder of the flagellum dusky black ; the vertical front surface 

 of the prothorax and the coxae, femora and tibiae of the legs 

 purplish blue, tarsi dark brown ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 somewhat finely and very closely punctured, granulate, the 

 punctures on the abdomen shallower than on the head and thorax ; 

 pilosity brownish, short, fairly abundant, oblique on the abdomen 

 and legs. Head about as broad as the pronotum and a little 

 longer ; clypeus broad, slightly vertically carinate and emarginate 

 in the middle; facial hollow comparatively deep, transversely 

 finely rugulose, not margined above, but above it on the front 



