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surface green, finely punctured, the apical segment with a 

 longitudinal furrow down the centre ; the apex blackish. 



B. Apex of third abdominal segment rounded, with a 

 tooth on either side at the end. 



Chrysis furiosa, sp. nov. (PL 16, f. 9). 

 Viridis, late cceruleo-maculata, flagello antennarum nigro; 

 alis fere hyalinis. $. Long. 6 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore. 



Head nearly as wide as the thorax, green, a large 

 purplish-blue patch on the vertex. On the front dis- 

 tinctly below the ocelli is a stout keel depressed inwardly, 

 broadly in the centre, continued as a straight somewhat 

 oblique keel down the sides of the eyes, from which 

 it is distinctly separated, and becoming united to a 

 semicircular keel over the frontal depression, which is 

 finely and closely punctured at the sides, and finely 

 transversely striated in the middle. From the centre of 

 the top frontal keel a short thick keel runs down to 

 the centre of the area. The vertex bears longish fuscous 

 hair ; the sides of the frontal depression with short white 

 hair. Antennae black ; the scape, second and third 

 joints, green ; the flagellum covered with a microscopic 

 down ; the scape with white hair ; the third joint is fully 

 one quarter longer than the fourth. Prothorax half the 

 length of the head ; the sides, seen from above, oblique 

 at the base ; the rest curved, the base and apex of the 

 curve being distinct, almost forming teeth ; the punctua- 

 tion coarse and even ; in the central region is a large 

 bluish band. Mesonotum coarsely punctured, the punc- 

 tures large, round, and deep ; the punctuation on the 

 scutellum and the middle of the median segment similar 

 to that on the mesonotum. The front of the propleurae 

 coarsely punctured ; the rest excavated, shagreened ; the 

 mesopleurae coarsely punctured, almost running into 



