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POMPILIDjE. 



Fig. 30. 

 Salius aureosericeus, c^ . 



Salius elizBheihse, Binffh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, 1893, p. 372, 



$c?,pl.i,Hg.9, ?. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen densely pruiiiose ; the clypeus 



broad, slightly convex, its anterior 

 margin truncate in the middle, front 

 above the base of the antenna} with 

 a broad, shallow sulcation and an 

 abbreviated impressed perpendicular 

 line down its middle ; median seg- 

 ment depressed, at base below the 

 postscutellum rounded and roughly 

 transversely striate, its apex ab- 

 ruptly truncate, the truncation 

 smooth ; legs long, the tibise and 

 tarsi spinose, the posterior tibia3 

 serrated ; the abdomen broadly fusi- 

 form. Head, thoi-ax, and legs ferru- 

 ginous red, covered on the head, 

 pro- and mesothorax with dense, 

 and on the median segment and legs 

 with more scanty silky golden pile ; 

 abdomen black, with velvety black 

 pile, the apical two segments with reddish golden pile ; wings 

 ferruginous yellow, with the apex and posterior margin palely 

 fuscescent, 



c? similar, but the median segment is rounded wdth a regular 

 slope to the apex, the antennse are subfusiform, and the abdomen 

 somewhat vertically compressed. A variety {elizabethce) has the 

 abdomen entirely black. 



Hub. S. India ; Tenasserim ; Java. 2 • Length 28-52 ; exj). 

 60-84 mm. c? • Length 17-38 ; e.r/>. 44-80 mm. 



Note. — I suspect P. gigas, Taschenberg (Zeitsch. fiir d. Ges. 

 Naturwiss. 1869, p. 40) is only a variety of this puzzling species, 

 which affords a good example of the impossibility of separating 

 the genus Mygnimia, Shuck. & Smith = Bemij)e2}sis, Dahlbom, from 

 Priocnetnis, Schiodte. Out of a series of over 70 specimens that 

 I have examined, 40 have the Mygnimia venation, and more than 

 '60 that of the genus Priocnemis ; but then all the latter have the 

 bidentate claws to the tarsic haracteristic of Mygnimia, and are 

 absolutely identical in sculpture and colouring with the former. 



251. Salius ceylonicus. 



? Hemipepsis flava, Dahlb. Hym. Eur. i, p. 462, 5 ^^^ (''^^ 



Priocnemis flavus, Dahlb. t. c. p. 457). 

 Mygnimia ceylonica, Sauss. Novara Reise, Hym. p. 64, 5 (1867). 

 Myg-uimia intermedia, Smith, A. M. N. H. (4) xii, 1873, p. 257. 

 Priocnemis convexus, Binyh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, 1890, 



p. 237, 2 ^ar. ? 

 Salius ceylonicus, et intermedius, et convexus, Ca7n. Mem. Manch. 



L. Ph.^Soc. (4) iv, 1891, pp. 443, 444, & 451. 

 Salius intermedius et convexus, Binyh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 



1896, p. 215, uos. 3 & 4, pi. ii, tigs. 3 & 4. 



