132 POMPiLiD.i;. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pruinose ; clypous broad, convex, 

 wedge-shaped, the anterior margin slightly eniarginate, the sides 

 oblique, the forehead below the ocelli markedly 8ulcate; median 

 segment long, coarsely transversely striate, the apex abruptly 

 truncate, the face of the truncation smooth and shining; legs long, 

 robust, the tibiae and tarsi stoutly spined : abdomen pseudosessile, 

 broad and stout, about as long as the head and thorax together. 

 Intensely black, the abdomen with a violet and purple gloss ; 

 wings dark fuscous with a purple effulgence, and a large subovate 

 patch of glittering minute silvery scales on the disc of the fore 

 wing. 



c? similar, smaller, more slender, the abdomen vertically com- 

 pressed ; the front of the head, the scutellum, and postscutellum 

 alutaceous, the last tuberculate. 



Hah. India; Siara ; Borneo. $. Length 42; exy. 82 mm. 

 cJ. Length 26 ; exp. 60 mm. 



*25S. Salius caeruleopennis. 



Mvgnimia cseruleopeunis, Sauss. Mitth. Sckweiz. ent. Ges. viii, 1893, 

 V. 269, $ . 



2 . " Black, of slender form ; the antennae, head, pronotum, 

 scutellum, legs, and apical two segments of the abdomen golden 

 yellow, or fulvous red with golden pile ; the anterior margin of the 

 clypeus transverse and somewhat reflexed ; metathorax truncate 

 and markedly transversely striate ; the posterior tibiae carinated, 

 the carinse along their whole length studded with two rows of 

 serrate spines ; wings black with a blue effulgence." 



Hah. India. $ . Length 22 mm. Unknown to me, but from 

 the description I should say closely allied to 5. consanguineus, 

 Sauss., which, however, belongs to the group with unidentate 

 clau s {'Friocnemis). 



259. Salius fenestratus. 



JMygnimia audax. Smith, Cat. iii, p. \&2, $ (nee Pompilus audax, 



Smith, Cat. iii, p. 136). 

 Mygniiuia fenestrata, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 184, cS ■ 

 Salius audax, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Fh. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, p. 442. 

 Salius funestus, Ca7n. t. c. p. 444. 



2 . Head and thorax pruinose, abdomen smooth and shining ; 

 clypeus transverse, convex, its anterior margin truncate or sub- 

 emarginate in the middle, the front of the face concave, bearing a 

 deeply impressed line from the anterior ocellus to between the 

 base of the antennae, and a shallow broad sulcation on each side 

 of it ; median segment long, posteriorly with a gradual slope to 

 the apex, which is abruptly truncate, the sides and above with 

 coarse transverse striations, the truncation smooth without striae ; 

 legs long, robust, spinose, the posterior tibiae serrate ; abdomen 

 as long as the head and thorax together, massive, somewhat 

 curved. Deep ferruginous red, the pile on the head and thorax 

 dense and velvety with a glistening golden sheen; the extreme 



