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anterior margin of the mesonotum distinctly depressed, forming a 

 sort of shallow, finely punctured groove between it and the pro- 

 notum ; inesopleurae coarsely sculptured, an oblique broad groove 

 from underneath base of wings to near the apex of the mesopleurae, 

 >the latter beneath bidentate ; postscutellum gibbous, coming to a 

 blunt point, which is longitudinally sulcate in the middle posteriorly ; 

 median segment depressed beneath the postscutellum, the posterior 

 lateral angles produced but not large. Abdomen massive, the 1st 

 segment concave anteriorly, impressed in the middle at base above, 

 the anterior lateral angles rather prominent ; 2nd segment with a 

 slight medial longitudinal line scarcely carinate ; 3rd segment with 

 a transverse, slightly incrassate portion in front of the anteapical 

 series of fovea?, which latter are large, deep and round ; apical margin 

 with 6 triangular acute teeth, the medial four longer, narrower, 

 closer to one another than to the outer tooth on each side. 



c? . Differs from the $ in being more green and having the 3rd 

 abdominal segment shorter, more widely and roundly truncate. 



Length, $ 11-13, rf 11 ; exp. rf 22 mm. 



Hob. Probably the whole of Continental India. I procured one 

 specimen at Kandy in Ceylon, and I found this species common in 

 both Upper and Lower Burma ; it is recorded by Gribodo from 

 Upper Burma. 



Var. snmptuosa, Gribodo, from Burma, differs in being brilliant 

 cupreous or golden, with cupreous spots on the sides of the 3rd as 

 well as on the 2nd abdominal segment. 



571. Chrysis schioedtei, Daklb. Hym. Ear. ii (1854), p. aw, $ ; 



Mocsdnj (Hexachrysis), Mon. Chrys. 1889, p. 544. 

 Chrysis gemmatus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 461, $. 

 ? Chrysis siva, M ocsdry (Hexachrysis), Mon. Chrys. 1889. p. 545, $. 



$ . Metallic green or bluish green, the 3rd segment for the 

 most part metallic blue, the space round the ocelli and three spots in 

 a transverse row on the disc of the pronotum dull black, the rest 

 of the thorax shaded above more or less with black varying in 

 different specimens, the apical margin of the 2nd segment with a 

 lateral spot of fiery copper colour which varies in size and intensity, 

 sometimes very nearly indistinguishable ; head and thorax coarsely 

 closely punctured, cribrate, the large punctures with minute punc- 

 turings within ; abdomen much more finely and evenly punctured, 

 the punctures shallow, very fine and dense on the basal abdominal 

 segment, which also bears a few large scattered punctures near 

 the base ; pilosity brown, very short, moderately abundant, on the 

 sides of the facial hollow and on the legs it is white, more or less 

 oblique and longer. Head short and broad, about as broad as the 

 pronotum in front ; clypeus broad, its anterior margin broadly 

 and slightly emarginate ; facial hollow broad and deep, bordered 

 above by a somewhat prominent transverse carina, from which 

 another short rather indistinct carina is emitted, forming a loop 

 enclosing the anterior ocellus ; vertex with a rounded slope to 

 the front, occiput transverse ; antennas cylindrical, rather long, the 



