470 CH11YS11HU.E. 



size, the width across clypeus between base of mandibles about 

 the same as across the vertex between the tops of the eyes ; clypeus 

 broad, its anterior margin sinuate, facial hollow rather shallow, the 

 transverse carina on front above its upper margin indistinct, 

 anterior ocellus large, not enclosed by a carina. Thorax some- 

 what narrow, the pronotum transversely rectangular, with a 

 medial broad short groove, the mesonotum convex, the medial area 

 rectangular, about twice as long as broad, pro- and mesopleurae 

 not very rugose, the latter excavate at apex, and also obliquely 

 grooved and margined all round ; scutellum and postscutellum 

 rounded posteriorly, convex, the latter not gibbous, posterior 



Fig. 157. ChrtjSis angustata, $. a. Head from front. 



lateral angles of the median segment moderately produced ; 

 wings fusco-hyaline, nervures brown, tegulae purplish blue; legs 

 somewhat slender. Abdomen somewhat long and narrow, the base 

 of the 1st segment widely emarginate and with a slight medial 

 impression ; 2nd segment medially slightly, but distinctly carinate ; 

 3rd segment convex in the middle, about two-thirds of the length 

 of the 2nd segment, the anteapical row of fovese rounded, small, 

 apical margin with four somewhat blunt broad teeth. 



Length, $ 9-5-10 ; eaep. 18 mm. 



Hob. Eecorded so far from Tipper Burma, Manclalay (Fea $ 

 Bingham) ; Maymyo, 3000 ft. (Bingham). I bred this species from 

 cells of Odynerus multipictus, Smith, formed in a hole in a block 

 of teak timber. 



550. Chrysis COtesi, du liuysson, Rev. <TEnt. xii (1893), p. 249; id. 

 Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x (1896), p. 472. 



$ . Brilliant metallic green, slightly blue on the mesonotum 

 aud above all on the apical abdominal segment; in a specimen 

 from Deesa the mesonotum is almost entirely blue, antennae dark 

 brown, the scape and the basal two joints of the flagellum above 

 green ; legs green, tarsi reddish brown ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 somewhat finely and not very closely punctured, the intermediate 

 spaces highly polished, shining and brilliant, on the top of the 

 head the punctures run into reticulations; facial cavity rather 

 more minutely punctured, covered with long white pubescence, 

 which partially conceals the sculpture; pilosity brownish, very 

 short aud rather sparse. Head as broad as the pronotum in 

 tront or slightly broader ; facial cavity deep and slightly constricted 



