460 CHRYSIDID.E. 



is a short transverse carina, not extending on each side to the 

 orbits of the eyes, with no carinae emitted towards the anterior 

 ocellus; front and vertex convex; occiput from above widely 

 emarginate. Thorax : the pronotum short, transversely rectangular, 

 longer at the sides than in the middle, the latter slightly emar- 

 ginate with the anterior lateral angles truncate ; propleurae excavate ; 

 mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum lightly convex ; meso- 

 pleurae rugose, slightly excavate at apex beneath ; median segment 

 depressed beneath the postscutellum, the posterior lateral angles 

 prominent and acute at apex ; wings hyaline, nervures and tegulse 

 brown. Abdomen a little depressed, the 2nd segment medially 

 strongly carinate, the 3rd segment with the anteapical series of 

 foveaB small, the apical margin ending in 4 very broad and short 

 but acute teeth. 



cf unknown. 



Length, $ 5-5 ; eaep. 10'5 mm. 



Hob. Eecorded so far only from Tangala in Ceylon (Green}. 

 Mr. Green attached the following note to the specimen he kindly 

 sent me : " Found in rose twig in tunnel formed by Crabro sp.? " 



540. Chrysis obliterata, Mocsdry (Tetrachrysis), Mon. Chrys. 1889, 

 p. 377 ; du Buyss. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x (1890), pp. 472 & 

 473, pi. iii, fig. 5, $rf. 

 Chrysis orientalis, DcMb. (nee Guer.) Hym. JEur. 1854, p. 225, $ . 



2 . Metallic green, the median area of the mesonotum, the 

 bases and the discs of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments violet- 

 blue; antennas brown, the scape in front and the basal two joints 

 of the flagellum above bluish green ; legs green, tarsi reddish 

 brown ; head, thorax and abdomen closely but not densely punc- 

 tured ; the punctures irregular, the larger 

 punctures mixed with many minute points ; 

 the punctures on the thorax posteriorly 

 coarser and on the abdomen somewhat 

 h'ner than on the rest of the body ; facial 

 cavity finely rugulose, with some short 

 whitish pubescence which does not, how- 

 ever, conceal the sculpture ; pilosity whitish, 

 very short and somewhat sparse. Head 

 thick, slightly broader than * the pronotum ; 

 /t Fig ;, 155 ' n clypeus broad, raised in the middle ; facial 

 ata > ? cavity moderately deep, margined above by a 

 slight transverse cariua ; antenna? moderately 

 long, the 2nd joint of the flagellum a very little longer than 

 the 3rd ; front and vertex convex, occiput transverse. Thorax : 

 the pronotum subcylindrical, the sides convergent towards the 

 front, the middle anteriorly slightly impressed ; propleura? slightly 

 excavate ; mesonotum and scutellum slightly convex ; mesopleurae 

 convex, longitudinally grooved, the apex excavate and divided off 

 by a short transverse groove ; postscutellum from above semi- 



