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on the side of the mesosternum ; the metapleurse almost 

 smooth above, shagreened beneath. Wings almost 

 hyaline ; the nervures fuscous ; the stigma black ; the 

 tegulse green, punctured. Abdomen with a triangular 

 depression in the centre at the base ; the basal segment 

 green, tinged with blue; the second and third segments 

 blue, their sides green ; the apices with a brassy tinge ; 

 there are on each side of the centre two distinct fovese 

 of nearly equal size, and a much larger one looking 

 like two united, at least on one side of the example 

 examined ; for on the other side there are four foveas, 

 all clearly separated from each other. Ventral surface 

 smooth, shining, green, with brassy tints. 



D. Apex of abdomen with four teeth. 



Chrysis disparilis, sp. nov. 



Long, nearly 7 mm. 

 Hob. Barrackpore. 



Green ; the vertex, the mesonotum, and the greater 

 part of the abdominal dorsal segments, bluish-purple ; 

 the tarsi broadly testaceous at the base. 



Head as wide as the mesonotum and somewhat longer 

 than the pronotum, green ; the ocellar region and the 

 greater part of the occiput purple, coarsely punctured ; 

 the cheeks thickly covered with long white hair. Over 

 the frontal depression and below the ocelli is a curved 

 keel. Antennae stout ; the third joint on the lower side 

 equal in length to the fourth. The thorax strongly 

 punctured; the pronotum entirely green ; the mesonotum 

 purple ; the scutellum and metanotum green ; the scutel- 

 lum with a faint purplish tinge. Wings hyaline. The 

 first abdominal segment green, with a large purplish 

 mark across the middle ; the second segment purple, 

 green at the apex ; the last purple, green before the 

 teeth, which are themselves purple. 



