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elongate; the sides of the 3rd segment slightly convergent 

 posteriorly ; the 1st segment transverse at base with three slight 

 broad impressions above, the 2nd segment strongly medially 

 longitudinally carinate ; the 3rd segment transverse at the apical 

 margin, armed with 4 triangular equal teeth; the anteapical 

 Aeries of foveae large and distinct, the apical margin below them 

 in some specimens slightly translucent. 



cJ . Identical with the $ . 



Length, $ rf 5-5-7; exp. 10-5-13 mm. 



Hab. Quetta (Nurse) ; Delhi (Binghani) ; Ceylon, Peradeniya 

 (Green). The Ceylon specimen is smaller and with more blue 

 about it. Extending to Persia (Gumming). 



543. Chrysis nursei, sp. nov. 



<3 . Light metallic green, the abdomen with a coppery efful- 

 gence ; antennae reddish brown, the scape in front green, no 

 green or blue ou the upper side of the basal joints of the Sagellum ; 

 legs green, tarsi brownish yellow ; head and pronotum very finely 

 and densely punctured, the punctures irregular and serried one 

 against the other, giving a somewhat finely granulate appearance ; 

 lateral areas of the mesonotum reticulate-punctate, median area 

 of the same, the scutellum and postscutellum with much larger 

 and rather distant punctures, the intervals between them smooth 

 and polished ; abdomen punctate, the punctures moderately large 



Fig. 156. Chryais nursei, <$ . a. Postscutellum and median segment; 

 b. Apical margin of abdomen. 



and shallow ; facial cavity somewhat finely punctured, very thickly 

 pubescent, the pubescence white, entirely concealing the sculpture ; 

 pilosity light brownish, very short and abundant. Head thick, 

 about as broad and as long as the pronotum ; facial cavity indis- 

 tinctly margined above, 3rd joint of the flagellum of the antennae 

 the longest ; clypeus slightly raised in the middle, not emarginate 

 anteriorly ; the mandibles bidentate, front above facial cavity slightly 

 concave ; vertex broad and convex ; occiput transverse. Thorax : 

 the pronotum massive, transversely rectangular ; the sides slightly 

 convergent, the anterior lateral angles somewhat rounded, the 

 middle anteriorly broadly but very slightly impressed ; propleuno 

 excavate ; mesonotum and scutellum gently convex ; the meso- 

 pleurso convex, longitudinally grooved from beneath the base of the 

 wings to the apex ; postscutellum rounded posteriorly, completely 



