﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xli. 
  (1897), 
  No. 
  13, 
  17 
  

  

  depressed 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  is 
  fringed 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  with 
  

   longish 
  hairs. 
  The 
  ventral 
  segments, 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   are, 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  yellowish-testaceous 
  ; 
  the 
  last 
  ventral 
  

   segment 
  projects 
  beyond 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  dorsal. 
  

  

  Allied 
  apparently 
  to 
  B. 
  foveatus 
  Sm. 
  from 
  Singapore 
  ; 
  

   but 
  that, 
  among 
  other 
  differences, 
  has 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  

   twice 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  body. 
  

  

  POMPILID^. 
  

  

  -^^ 
  Salius 
  leptocerus, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Niger, 
  ahdoniinc 
  pcdibusque 
  rufis; 
  capite, 
  thorace 
  coxisque 
  

   dense 
  fulvo-hirtis 
  ; 
  alis 
  fusco-violaceis. 
  Long. 
  17; 
  exp. 
  al. 
  

   24 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Sikim. 
  

  

  Antennas 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  body, 
  entirely 
  black, 
  

   except 
  the 
  scape 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  side, 
  which 
  is 
  rufous. 
  Head 
  

   densely 
  covered 
  all 
  over 
  with 
  a 
  golden 
  fulvous 
  pile 
  and 
  

   less 
  densely 
  with 
  long 
  fulvous 
  hair. 
  Mandibles 
  densely 
  

   covered 
  with 
  short 
  depressed 
  fulvous 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  the 
  

   palpi 
  blackish. 
  Thorax 
  densely 
  covered 
  all 
  over 
  with 
  

   golden 
  fulvous 
  pubescence 
  and 
  more 
  sparsely 
  with 
  longish 
  

   pale 
  fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  wide, 
  deep 
  furrow 
  down 
  the 
  

   centre 
  of 
  the 
  post-scutellum, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  narrower, 
  

   less 
  distinct 
  one 
  down 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  segment, 
  

   which 
  is 
  obscurely 
  transversely 
  striated. 
  Wings 
  fuscous- 
  

   violaceous, 
  shining, 
  the 
  nervures 
  blackish; 
  the 
  first 
  recur- 
  

   rent 
  nervure 
  is 
  received 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  

   second 
  transverse 
  cubital; 
  the 
  nervures 
  dark 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  

   stigma 
  darker 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  Legs 
  red 
  ; 
  the 
  coxae 
  black, 
  

   densely 
  covered 
  with 
  golden 
  pubescence 
  and, 
  more 
  

   sparsely, 
  with 
  longish 
  fulvous 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  posterior 
  are 
  

   rufous 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  ; 
  the 
  trochanters 
  are 
  black 
  at 
  

   the 
  base. 
  Abdomen 
  dark 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  second, 
  third, 
  

   and 
  fourth 
  segments 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  

  

  Comes 
  near 
  to 
  S. 
  zelotypns 
  Bingham 
  from 
  Tenasserim. 
  

  

  