NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN CHRYSIDID^. 11 



Chrysis gttjaratica, n. sp. 



?. Kobustly built ; head, except clypeus and front, thorax, and 

 abdomen closely, but not very finely punctured, the puncturing of 

 the mesonotum, scutelluni, postscutellum, and base of the 1st abdo- 

 minal segment being somewhat coarser, and less close than on the 

 other portions ; head at least as wide as pronotum, and about equal 

 to it in size when viewed from above ; clypeus sparsely punctured, 

 rounded and very slightly emarginate anteriorly; 2nd joint of flagellum 

 of autennffi nearly as long as the 3rd and 4th united ; a ridge in front 

 of the anterior ocellus, and the front below this ridge forming a sharp 

 angle with the vertex, the front being thickly covered with long snow- 

 white pubescence, which hides the sculpturing ; pronotum with the 

 sides parallel, and a median longitudinal depression, which scarcely 

 reaches the apex ; mesonotum with two short sublateral longitudinal 

 lines, parallel with the sides of the median quadrate division ; first 

 two segments of the abdomen of the same width as the thorax, 

 3rd segment somewhat narrower, the whole abdomen being nearly as 

 long as the head and thorax united ; 8rd abdominal segment rounded, 

 with four sharp teeth, the inner ones the longest ; an ill-defined 

 median carina on 2nd and 3rd segments above. Light metallic green, 

 the abdomen, especially on the 2nd and 3rd segments, with a coppery 

 tint ; mandibles metallic green at base, light red in the centre, black 

 at apex ; antennse dark red ; tarsi testaceous ; head, thorax, and 

 abdomen covered with short, sparse, white pubescence ; wings hyaline, 

 tegulfe dark shining blue, radial cell of fore wing not quite closed 

 at apex. 



(?. Similar, but of a darker green, and without the coppery 

 effulgence ; 2nd and 3rd joints of flagellum subequal. Long. 7-9 mm. 



Hah. Deesa. I found a large colony of this species about a 

 bank in which two species of Anthidium {A. saltator, Nurse) and 

 a species which I identify somewhat doubtfully as A. pulchellum, 

 Klug, were breeding. I presume that the Chrysis is parasitic on 

 one or both of these species. It may be worth noting that I had 

 collected for three years at Deesa before I came across this 

 species, and then found it in large numbers within a mile of my 

 house. 



Chrysis bahadur, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen closely, but not very finely 

 punctured, and with very sparse greyish pubescence ; clypeus sparsely 

 punctured, its apex transverse; an irregularly quadrate enclosure 

 below the anterior ocellus, the front below it being very concave ; 

 head wider than pronotum, and, when viewed from above, about half 

 as large again as it; abdomen nearly as long as head and thorax 

 united; a median longitudinal depression on the pronotum, and 

 another on the 1st abdominal segment ; 2nd and 3rd abdominal 

 segments with a median longitudinal carina, 3rd segment quadriden- 

 tate, with subapical foveas, the teeth sharp, and resembling those of 

 Stilbum splendidum. Dark blue-green or green-blue ; clypeus and front 

 lighter green ; 3rd abdominal segment with a purple tinge ; basal two 

 joints of flagellum of antennsB with stiff, white pubescence, remainder 



