464 CHRYSIDID.E. 



overlying the median segment, the produced posterior lateral 

 angles of the latter very narrow, the apex acute, pointing 

 backwards ; wings hyaline, nervures light yellowish brown, 

 teguloo greenish blue ; legs somewhat long and slender. Abdomen 

 short, broad, the base transverse, the upper margin at base 

 declivous anteriorly, the sides of the basal two segments parallel, 

 the sides and apical margin of the 3rd forming a semicircular arch 

 set with 4 acute, rather short and narrow spinoid teeth ; the 2nd 

 and 3rd segments slightly medially longitudinally carinate, the 

 anteapical series on the latter subobsolete ; the foveae small, few 

 in number, round, some indistinct. 

 $ unknown. 



Lenyth, $ 6*5 ; exp. 12 mm. 



Hob. Recorded so far only from Deesa in Northern Gujerat 

 (Nurse). 



544. Chrysis gracilenta, Mocsdry (Tetrachrysis), Mon. Chrys. 1889, 

 p. 375. 



$ . Metallic green, the space round the ocelli, the occiput and 

 anterior margin of the pronotum medially, and the medial lobe oi 

 the mesonotum very dark blue mixed with black ; the tegulae, the 

 basal medial portion of the 1st and greater part of the 2nd 

 segment of the abdomen dark metallic blue ; the thorax posteriorly, 

 the sides of the 1st, the sides and apical margin of the 2nd and 

 apical margin of the 3rd abdominal segment bluish green; the 

 scape of the antenna in front, the basal two joints of the flagellum 

 above, and the legs (except the tarsi) bluish, the rest of the 

 flagellutu dusky black, the tarsi brownish ; head and thorax 

 closely and coarsely, the abdomen more finely punctured ; pilosity 

 short, dark and fairly abundant, no white pubescence in the facial 

 cavity or on the legs. Head much broader than long, the clypeus 

 broad but very short ; the facial hollow deep, a curved transverse 

 carina between its upper margin and the anterior ocellus, the 

 latter with no carinae on either side ; antennae somewhat short, the 

 3rd joint of the flagellum the longest ; the vertex broad. Thorax : 

 the pro- and mesonotum convex, the former transversely rectan- 

 gular, the median lobe of the latter rectangular ; mesopleurae 

 rugose, margined, angular below ; scutellum, pcstscutellum and 

 median segment rounded, convex, the posterior lateral angles of 

 the last moderately produced and prominent ; legs comparatively 

 -slender ; wings hyaline, nervures brownish. Abdomen with a 

 short, broad, longitudinal medial impression at base; the 2nd 

 abdominal segment medially carinate ; the apical margin of the 

 3rd segment quadridentate. 



Length, $ 6 ; exp. 12 mm. 



Hob. Recorded within our limits from Upper Burma, Mandalav 

 (Fea) ; extends to China. I procured one specimen of what is 

 possibly the J of this species in Tenasserim. It does not differ in 

 size or sculpture, but is much greener with slightly darker wings. 



