178 HYMENOPTEKA. 



covered with a long, dull, fulvous pubescence. Legs pruinose ; the tibiae serrate, the 

 long spur of the hind pair not reaching to the middle of the metatarsus ; the tarsal 

 spines rufous ; the spine on the hind claw short and thick. Wings : radial cellule 

 narrow, elongate, lanceolate; the second cubital cellule very short, narrowed at the 

 top, at the top and bottom less than half the length of the third ; the first recurrent 

 nervure received a little behind, the second in front of, the middle of the cellule. 

 The antennae densely pruinose ; the third joint much longer than the fourth. 



10. Salius juno, 



Niger, antennarum articulis l°-3 m pedibusque rufis, coxis trochanteribus apicibusque tarsorum nigris ; alis 



hyalinis, $ . 

 Long. 9 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Chilpaneingo in Guerrero 4600 feet (H. H. Smith). 



Head not much broader than the thorax, closely punctured, the face and clypeus 

 densely covered with a white pubescence ; the eyes distinctly curved at the top and 

 converging at the bottom ; the ocelli in a curve, the hinder ones separated from the 

 eyes by a slightly greater distance than they are from each other ; clypeus margined, 

 broadly rounded ; occiput slightly convex. Pronotum shorter than the head ; the 

 sides oblique ; the apex shallowly arcuate, not rounded, but somewhat angled in the 

 middle. Thorax opaque, alutaceous ; the median segment also opaque, the apex 

 obscurely transversely striated, short, with rather an abruptly rounded slope. Abdomen 

 with the petiole somewhat shorter than the head and thorax united ; the sides pruinose 

 in the middle ; the apical segment densely covered with a pale fulvous pubescence and 

 with long white hair. Tibiae serrate, the spur of the hind pair short, not reaching to 

 the middle of the metatarsus ; the tarsi sparsely spined. Antennae short, stout ; the 

 apical joints brownish. Wings comparatively short ; the radial cellule angled where 

 the transverse cubital nervures are received ; the second cubital cellule at the top and 

 bottom shorter than the third, the top considerably shorter than the bottom ; all the 

 transverse cubital nervures are curved ; the first recurrent nervure is received a very 

 little beyond the middle, the second almost in the middle. 



ll. Salius angustithorax. 



Priocnemis angustithorax, Tasch. Zeitschr. f. ges. Naturw. xxxiv. p. 39 \ 

 Hab. Mexico l . 



12. Salius flammipennis. 



Pompilus flammipennis, Smith, Cat. Hymen, iii. p. 155 * ; Cresson, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. 



p. 371 2 . 

 Pompilus {Priocnemis) flammipennis, Cresson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 119 s . 

 Pompilus ignipennis, Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 121 *. 



