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testaceous brown ; wings fusco-hyaline, with an oily yellow tinge, 

 the base and the apex broadly dark fuscous. 



S similar, but with the disc of the wings covered with a fine 

 short silvery-white sericeous pile. 



Hab. Syihet ; Sikhim ; Borneo ; Java ; Sumatra. $ . Length 

 29 ; exp. 62 mm. <S . Length 26 ; ex2). 60 mm. 



248. Salius Satelles, Bi7i(//i. Jour. Linn. Soc. 1896, p. 433. 



c? . Pruinose ; the clypeus small, convex, its anterior margin 

 almost transverse in the middle and slightly incurved ; the meso- 

 notuui broad, subconvex, slightly aciculate ; scutellum and post- 

 scutellum raised in the middle, very prominent, the latter forming 

 a tubercle; median segment long, somewhat truncate at apex, 

 transversely striated, longitudinally sulcate on each side of a 

 median line, the sides slightly raised, and endiug at the apex in 

 well-marked but blunt projections ; legs long and slender, the 

 tibiae and tarsi feebly spinose ; abdomen short, vertically com- 

 pressed, the ventral furrow on the 2ud segment feebly indicated. 

 Intensely black, the clypeus alutaceous, the underside of the 

 antennae slightly fulvous ; wings fuscous, with a broad hyaline 

 yellow transverse bar across the disc in the fore wing, extending 

 ifrom the apical half of the basal cell to a little beyond the base of 

 the 2nd cubital and 2nd discoidal cells ; nervures fuscous black, 

 yellow on the hyaline portion of the wing ; tegulae black. 

 Hah. Tenasserim. S • Length 22 ; exp. 52 mm. 



249. Salius bellicosus. (PL I, fig. 5.) 



Mv^nimia hellicosa, Smith, A. M. N. H. (4) xii, 1873, p. 256. 

 Salius beUcosus, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, p. 443. 

 Salius hercules, Cam. t. c. pp. 444 & 447, c5" • 



5 . Closely resembles S. sycophanta, Gribodo, but is smaller, has 

 the pronotum shorter, and the median segment longer in pro- 

 portion ; the abdomen smooth and shining, and more petiolate, 

 and the wings dark fuscous at base up to or a little beyond the 

 basal nervure, then deep flavo-hyaline, with the apex fuscous. 

 The male has the antennse fuscous above for half their length 

 from base, and the legs darker than in the female. 



Var. 5 . With the fuscous colour in the basal portion of the 

 fore wing not quite reaching up to the basal nervure. 



Bah. Bengal ; Naga Hills ; Pegu Hills, Burma ; Tenasserim. 

 2 . Length 35-42 ; ea-p. 64-82 mm. d' . Length 26-34 ; e.vp. 

 56-67 mm. Mr. Cameron's minute description of S. hercules 

 compared with the type of S. hellicosus, Smith, in the British 

 Museum, leaves no doubt as to the identity of the two. 



250. Salius aurecsericeus. 



Pompilus aureosericus, Guer. Voif. Cnq., Zool. ii, pt. 2, p. 256. 

 Mygniiiiia aurensericea, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 182. 

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

 p. 443. 



