126 POMPILIDJE. 



($. L. 24-30 mm.). Wings 

 deep fulvous red, apical margin 



lic^htly fuscescent <S. nicevillii, p. 141. 



b^. Sniallei' ( $ . L. 20 mm.). Wings 



pale oily bro\ATi ; fore wing with 



a faint fuscous subapical cloud. <S'. terrenus, p. 141. 



i^. Head and foi'e part of thorax 



fulvous or ferruginous yellow^, 



with golden pile. 



a^. Of robust build ; median segment 



coarsely transversely striate . . S.Jlavus, p. 142. 

 6\ Of slighter build ; median seg- 

 ment finely reticulate S. ffrassator, p. 143. 



f^. Heiid and the whole of the thorax 

 fulvous or ferruginous yellow, 

 covered, as is the abdomen also, 



with a thin silky golden pile. ... <S. sericosoma, p. 143. 

 (P. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, 

 the head and thorax variegated 

 with yellow markings S. verticalis, p. 144. 



c. Wings clear hyaline. 



a'. Abdomen entirely black, with bands 



of cinereous silvery pile . . : S. momus, p. 144. 



b'. Abdomen entirely yellowish red, the 



extreme base only" black S. obsonntor, p. 144. 



c'. Abdomen with the basal half red, 

 the apical half black, 

 o". Median segment above coarsely 



reticulate. 5 • L- 1^ mm 'S'. valentulus, p. 145. 



6". Median segment above finely trans- 

 versely striate ; slighter and 

 smaller. 5 • L. 12 mm S. geminus, p. 145. 



d. Wings hyaline, fore wing with fuscous 



fasciiB or clouds. 

 «'. Abdomen with basal half red, apical 



half black S. electus, p. 146. 



h' . Abdomen entirely black ; front above 



base of autenme with two parallel 



carinae and a shining fovea between 



them S. rothieyi, p. 146. 



c'. Abdomen entirely black ; front not 



carinated, a shining fovea only 



present S. cotesi, p. 146. 



247. Salius anthracinus. 



Mygnimia anthracina. Smith, Cat. iii, p. 183, c?. 

 Salius anthracina, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 

 pp. 442, 447. 



2 . Clvpeus smooth, the rest of the head, the thorax, and 

 abdomen pruinose ; the median segment at base depressed sud- 

 denly and markedly below the postscutellimi, and roughly trans- 

 versely striate ; the legs long and slender ; the intermediate and 

 posterior tibife and tarsi spinose, the posterior tibiae serrated ; 

 abdomen subpetiolate, somewhat fusiform. Deep velvety black, 

 the clypeus alutaceous ; the apical three joints of the tarsi 



