CHRYSIS. 477 



wanting on the abdomen ; the facial hollow and legs with a little 

 soft fine pubescence, silvery in certain lights. Head as broad as 

 long, eyes large, vertex convex, clypens convex anteriorly trans- 

 verse and margined in the middle ; facial hollow broad, punctured 

 with a broad, shallow, medial longitudinal groove, smooth or 

 in certain lights indistinctly transversely rugose, the hollow 

 above margined and above that a transverse sinuate carina, the 

 anterior ocellus surrounded by a carina in a broad loop joining 

 the lower transverse carina. Thorax : the pronotum transversely 

 rectangular, convex, the mesonotum convex, medial area rect- 

 angular with the anterior angles obliquely broadened ; scutellum 

 transversely rectangular ; propleurae with a deep hollow ; meso- 

 pleurae coarsely cribrately punctate, the apex bluntly angular and 

 excavate, margined by a carina ; postscutellum somewhat narrow, 

 prominent, convex and rounded posteriorly ; median segment de- 

 pressed beneath postscutellum, the posterior lateral angles acutely 

 produced ; wings lightly fusco-hyaline, nervures brown, tegulse 

 brown, bluish in the middle ; legs slender. Abdomen narrow, the 

 1st segment nearly transverse at base, 2nd segment indistinctly 

 medially longitudinally carinate. 3rd segment transversely convex, 

 the anteapical series of foveae large, the apical margin with 4 teeth, 

 the two middle teeth closer to one another than either is to the 

 lateral tooth next to it. 



c? unknown. 



Length, $ 6-7; exp. 13 mm. 



Hab. Eecorded from Lower Burma, Palou (Pea) ; Upper Burma, 

 Bhamo (Bingham). 



558. Chrysis shanghaiensis, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 400; 



du Buyss. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x (1896), p. 47o, pi. 3, fig. 7. 

 Pentachrysis bimalayensis, Mocsdry, Harts Soc. Ent. Ross, xxiii 



(1889), p. 31, cJ . 

 Pentachrysis crassiscuta, Jfocsdry, Mon. Chrys. 1889, p. 524. 



$ . Head, thorax and abdomen metallic green, the space round 

 the ocelli, the occiput, the mesonotum except a border on each 

 side, and the bases and sides broadly 

 of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments 

 deep purple ; antennae dusky black, 

 the scape and basal two joints of the 

 nagellum of the antennae green, legs 

 green, the inner side of the tibire and 

 the tarsi reddish brown ; head and 

 thorax very coarsely and closely punc- 

 tured, the punctures serried and rnn- 

 Chrysi ss l<anyhaien S is,$. "ing into reticulations; abdomen a 

 little more finely and distantly punc- 

 tured, the interspaces smooth and polished ; facial cavity finely 

 punctured. Head broader than long, as broad as the front of 

 the pronotum, occiput seen from above transverse, vertex and 



