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these are sharp and spine-like. The innermost pair are merely obtuse undu- 
lations of the margin (See figure 11). By its coloration it belongs to the Section 
known as Viridis, 
Fig. 11. Apex of abdomen in Chrysis buatoni 3. 
Body above almost entirely bright metallic green, but with a more fiery 
(reddish-golden) tinge at the sides of the mesonotum, and with the tegule deep 
dark blue. Venter partly concolorous with the dorsum, partly blue, indigo, violet, 
etc. (the colours blending where they meet, and as in many other species with a 
pair of large rounded spots (black with violet reflections) at the base of its 2nd 
segment. Antenne fuscous, densely clothed with minute, white sub-erect 
hairs : joints 1, 2, and a part of joint 3, green.- Legs green, with yellowish (non- 
metallic) knees and tarsi. Wings clouded in the middle, but quite clear at base 
and apex. Face and genx (between eyes and mandibles), clothed with silvery 
hairs. Pilosity of dorsal surface short and inconspicuous, but the femora and 
tibize are fringed with rather long pale hairs. 
Head about as wide as the pronotum. Third antennal joint about as long as 
the second and fourth together. Least length of the cheeks about equal to that 
of the second antennal joint. From near each end of the rather vaguely carinat- 
ed brow which overhangs the facial cavity a very distinct carina runs backward 
into the ocellar area, nearly isolating the anterior ocellus from the others. (Fig. 
12.) 
The apical half of the pronotum is sulcate longitudinally, and its lateral angles 
(shoulders) subspinose. The dorsum 
of the abdomen is evidently but 
not strongly carinated longitudinally. 
The head is closely punctured 
(this is not shewn in the Figure) : 
the thorax and abdomen less so, 
and much more coarsely (about as 
Fig. 12. Upper part of head Chrysis in C. micans, Dahlb.). On the sides 
buxtoni & Viewed from in Front. of the mesonotum the punctures are 
especially large and sparse. 
Length of body about 7 mm. 
[I have not attempted to shew the puncturation of the head, which would 
have made the ‘characters’ I desired to illustrate more difficult to see.] 
13. Stilbum cyanurum, Forster.—One specimen of the typical form was 
taken “at or near’? Amara by Captain 
Evans. I forgot to take note of the sex. 
14. Parnopes grandior, Pall. (—Carnea, F.)—1 @, Enzeli (P), 30th June. 
Nearly all the Mesopotamian Chrysids mentioned above occur also in R. du 
Buysson’s List of Egyptian forms (Mem. Soc. Ent. d’ Egypte, Cairo, 1908.) 
