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posteriorly, not distinctly margined above ; clypeus slightly 

 emarginate anteriorly ; antennae thick, the 2nd joint of the fla- 

 gellum longer than the 3rd, the 3rd slightly longer than the 4th ; 

 front and vertex gently convex, sloping anteriorly ; occiput not 

 sharply transverse, rounded. Thorax : the pronotum transversely 

 rectangular, convex from side to side, the sides very slightly 

 broadly emarginate and convergent anteriorly, the anterior lateral 

 angles prominent ; propleurae only slightly concave, mesonotum 

 and scutellum gently convex ; the mesopleuree convex, the apex 

 beneath rounded and cut off by three deep foveae ; postscutellum 

 rounded and rather prominent posteriorly ; the produced posterior 

 lateral angles of the median segment small, narrow and acute at 

 apex ; wings fusco-hyaline, nervures brown, tegulae green ; legs 

 rather short and robust. Abdomen broad, massive, concave at 

 base, with a medial and two lateral slight impressions, the sides 

 parallel, towards the apex of the 3rd segment slightly convergent, 

 2nd segment not or very slightly medially carinate ; 3rd segment 

 with the anteapical series well-marked, the foveae large and deep, 

 apical margin armed with four broad, very blunt teeth. 



c? . Smaller ; the apical teeth remarkably blunt, their apices 

 almost rounded. 



Length, $ 9-5-10, d" 9*5 ; exp. $ tf 17-18 mm. 



Hah. Probably throughout Continental India, recorded from 

 Deesa (Nurse), Central Provinces and Western India ( IVroughton), 

 Bangalore (Cotes), Mysore (Lee). 



551. Chrysis perfecta, Cameron, Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. xli (1897), 



no. 13, p. 1, $ . 

 Chrysis hoggei, Nurse, Entomologist, xxxvi (1903), p. 40. 



rf . Metallic green shaded with blue, the head with a slight 

 golden effulgence, the bases of 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments 

 black, turning to dark blue towards the disc, the blue on the 3rd 

 segment broader and more extended than on the 2nd ; antennae 

 dusky black, the scape in front and the basal two joints of the 

 nagellum, with the base of the 3rd joint, above greenish blue ; legs 

 greenish blue, tarsi yellowish brown ; head, thorax and abdomen 

 closely but not densely punctured, the punctures more shallow and 

 less dense than in G. fusdjtennis, which G. perfecta much resembles ; 

 on the abdomen the punctures are finer and even more shallow than 

 on the thorax and head ; facial cavity transversely rugose and 

 thickly covered with rather long white pubescence ; pilosity 

 brownish, fairly abundant, on the abdomen it is very short and 

 more sparse. Head from the front almost subtriangular, the sides 

 far more convergent and the clypeus narrower than iu C.ftutci- 

 pennis; facial cavity shallow, not margined above and with no 

 distinct transverse carinse above it on the front ; antennae short, 

 the 2nd joint of the flagellum the longest ; anterior ocellus not 

 placed in a margined hollow ; eyes above very divergent posteriorly, 

 the vertex very convex and broad ; occiput transverse. Thorax : 

 the pronotum transversely rectangular, above with a medial 



