122 



POMPILIDiE. 



punctures ; median segment rounded posteriorly with a steep slope 

 to its apex, and transversely striate and rugose, a shallow sulcation 

 down the middle, with a longitudinally impressed line on each 

 side close to the stigmata ; legs long, armed with only very minute 

 spines ; abdomen subpetiolate, smooth and shining. Deep shining 

 metallic blue \\ith shades of green in certain lights : antennae and 

 tarsi opaque black : wings hyaline, some fuscous shading along the 

 basal nervure of fore wing and in the 2nd cubital and discoidal 

 cells ; nervures and tegulae testaceous brown. 



Hah. India (Bengal) ; Sumatra. $. Length 11-15; exp. 27- 

 31 mm. cJ unknown. 



Geuus SALIUS. 



Salius, pt., Fabr. Si/st. Piez. p. 124 (1804). 



Priocnemis, pt., Schiodte, Mun. Pomj^.,Krdyers Tidsskr. 1837, p. 321. 



Hemipepsis, pt. ; Priocnemis, pt. ; Cyphonouyx, pt. ; Homonotus, pt. ; 



at Entypus, pt., Dahlb. Hrjm. Eur. i, p. 440 et seq. (1845). 

 Pallosoma, pt., Lepel. Hym. iii (1845) p. 492. 

 Mygnimia, pt., Smith, Cat. iii (1855) p. 181. 

 Salius, Kohl, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1884, p. 43. 



Type, S. hicolor, Fabr. 



Range. Over both hemispheres. 



Fig. 29. — Salius nicevillil, 2 • t- 



Form of the clypeus, pronotura, and median segment very 

 variable : wings long and ample, fore wing with 3 cubital cells, the 

 3rd cubital cell measured on the cubital nervure as long as or 

 longer than the 2nd cubital cell, the latter receives the 1st 

 recurrent nervure after the middle of the cell, and in one group 

 (Mygnimia, Smith) at the extreme apex, interstitial with the 2nd 

 transverse cubital nervure ; the 3rd cubital cell receives the 2nd 



