474 CHBTSIDID^E. 



segment vertical, the posterior lateral angles produced, broad, 

 convex, not very acute at apex ; wings subhyaline, nervures brown, 

 tegute green ; legs slender. Abdomen about as long as the head 

 and thorax united, transverse anteriorly, with a broad shallow 

 medial impression at base above ; 2nd segment very prominently 

 medially longitudinally carinate ; 3rd segment not carinate, convex, 

 the anteapical series of foveae well-marked, the fove large, round, 

 deep and open, apical margin long, with four subequal triangular 

 teeth. 



cJ . " Similar, but of a deeper blue, almost mauve colour, fla- 

 gellum of antenna? black." (Ntirse.) 



Length, $ 7 ; exp. 13 mm. 



Hub. Eecorded so far only from Kashmir between 6000 to 8000 ft. 

 (Nurse). 



554. Chrysis conserta, du Buyss. Rev. cCEnt. x (1891), p. 37. 



5 . Indigo-blue, the face in front, the pronotum anteriorly, the 

 lateral basal portions of the scutellum and postscutellum, the sides 

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

 abdominal segment bright green ; antennae black, the scape and 

 the basal joint of the flagellum above green, the two succeeding 

 joints more or less of a dull bluish tint ; legs and sides of thorax 

 greenish blue, tarsi dusky black ; head, thorax and basal abdominal 

 segment densely reticulate-punctate, the punctures largest on the 

 scutellum and postscutellum, remaining two abdominal segments 

 very finely and closely punctured, the punctures shallow ; facial 

 cavity finely punctured, rugulose ; pilosity long, rather sparse. 

 Head broad and thick, a little broader than the front of the pro- 

 notum ; facial cavity broad but shallow, with sparse long soft hairs, 

 sharply margined above ; clypeus raised and emarginate in the 

 middle ; antenuse long, the 2nd joint of the flagellum longer than 

 the 3rd, the 3rd and 4th subequal ; front and vertex convex, 

 occiput transverse. Thorax : the pronotum transversely rect- 

 angular, the sides slightly convergent anteriorly, the front more 

 or less deeply medially longitudinally sulcate ; propleura3 slightly 

 concave, mesonotum and scutellum gently convex ; mesopleurae 

 rugose, broadly obliquely longitudinally sulcate ; postscutellum 

 gently convex, subtriangular, the apex rounded ; the produced 

 posterior lateral angles of the median segment large, broad, acute 

 at apex ; wings hyaline, nervures dark brown, tegula3 deep blue. 

 Abdomen long, the sides of the basal two segments parallel, the 

 base of the 1st transverse above, with a medial and two lateral 

 slight impressions ; 2nd segment medially longitudinally carinate 

 above ; 3rd segment with the sides slightly convergent posteriorly, 

 slightly transversely incrassate before the anteapical series, the 

 foyese in the latter (in Indian specimens) subtransverse, not deep ; 

 apical margin with four acute triangular teeth. 



<3 . Similar, smaller and slighter. 



Length, ? 11, <f 10 ; y. $ <J 21 mm. 



