CHRYSIS. 485 



066. Chrysis orientalis, Giitr. (Pyria) Her. Zool. 1842, p. 140, <$ 

 Mocs. (Hexachrysis), Mon, Chrys. 1889. p. o92 : rfw 7/tw0. 7cmr. 

 Bomb. N.H. Soc. x (1896), p. 477, $ <J. 



* ? . Metallic green, in certain lights brilliant dark blue, the 2nd 

 -abdominal segment more decidedly metallic blue on the sides, the 

 3rd segment dark blue at base, changing to purple and then to 

 green towards the apex ; the median area of the mesonotum 

 posteriorly and the lateral grooves partly blue partly black, the 

 blue extending posteriorly to the scutellum ; antennae and tarsi 

 dusky black, the scape in front bluish metallic green, the basal 

 joint of the flagellum with only a spot of bluish green at base 

 above; head, thorax and abdomen very coarsely punctured, on 

 the head and thorax the punctures are very close, and cribrafe 

 mixed with smaller punctures, on the abdomen more distant and 

 even ; pilosity abundant, brown and short, in the facial hollow 

 recumbent, white and rather long. Head a little longer than 

 broad, the vertex convex; clypeus broad, its anterior margin 

 medially transverse, not emarginate, and with a small medial 

 convexity; facial hollow broad, shallow, coriaceous within, 

 margined above by a transverse but sinuate cariua, above which 

 the front is set with three shallow hollows, the medial hollow 

 margined by a carina and enclosing the anterior ocellus ; occiput 

 transverse ; antennae somewhat long, cylindrical, the 3rd joint of 

 the flagellum longer than the basal two united, these latter sub- 

 equal. Thorax : the pronotum convex, short, shorter in the 

 middle than at the sides, the sides slightly convergent towards 

 the front, a shallow broad longitudinal impression in the middle 

 anteriorly ; propleurae excavate, the two deep hollows rugulose 

 within and separated by a carina ; mesonotum short, broad and 

 convex, with the margin anteriorly depressed into a more or less 

 smooth transversegroove lying between it and the pronotum ; median 

 area rectangular, widening slightlv anteriorly ; scutellum convex, 

 from above semicircular ; mesopleura; produced, bideutate beneath, 

 the apex separated by a longitudinal broad groove ; postscutfllum 

 with a large medial mucro at base, hollow above and overhanging 

 the median segment, the posterior lateral angles of the latter 

 strongly produced, acute at apex, concave above, rugulose in the 

 middle, punctured along the margins ; wings f usco-hyaline with a 

 slight purple tint, the nervures purplish brown, tegula? purplish 

 blue ; legs rather long, slender. Abdomen massive, broad, with a 

 short deep longitudinal groove or impression medially at base: 

 2nd and 3rd segments with indications of a medial longitudinal 

 cariua ; the 3rd segment slightly incrassate across the middle, the 

 anteapical series of foveae small but distinct, the apical margin with 

 <} acute triangular teeth disposed on a broad curve, the outer 

 ones the shortest. 



3 . Similar ; smaller, slighter, more green, the face and front 

 golden. 



Length, 11-12, <J 10-11 ; exp. ? 23, rf 21 mm. 



