SALIUS. 



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base of the abdomen and the apical margins of segments 1-4 



above and below broadly black, 

 these bands on the upperside 

 produced angularly forwai'd in 

 the middle ; wings deep ferru- 

 ginous red, fuscescent towards 

 the apex and narrowly along the 

 posterior margin. In certain 

 lights there is a purple irides- 

 cence at the base of the wing 

 in fresh specimens. 



The cJ is similar but of 

 slighter build, with the wings 

 lighter in colour. There are 

 two varieties of this insect — 

 the typical one (auda.v of Smith), 

 with the wings coloured as 

 above ; and another (fen est rat %, 

 Hvaith, funestus, Cameron), with 

 the wings of a deep brown, 

 having a rich purple efful- 

 gence. 



Ifab. Sylhet ; Sikhim at low 

 elevations ; Dawnat Range, Te- 

 nasserim. $ . Length 32-41 ; 

 J . Lemjtli 27-31 ; exp. 60-70 mm. 



Fig. 3]. — Salius fencstratus, 5 

 exp. 66-84 mm 



260. Salius veda, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv. 1891, pp. 445 & 



449. 



Head and thorax beazing a thick whitish pile, the median 

 segment with a few fuscous hairs ; abdomen shining, slightly 

 pruinose ; clypeus broadly convex, its apex rounded, the labrum 

 projecting beyond it, a deepish depression on the sides of the 

 clypeus at the base ; occiput transverse in the middle, the sides 

 rounded; pronotum a little narrowed anteriorly; median segment 

 with a slight slope to the apex, when it becomes oblique, apex 

 bluntly rounded. Black, the abdomen and legs rufous, the scape 

 beneath and orbits and the face obscure yellowish, the flagellum 

 brownish beneath ; the coxae and trochanters of the legs and basal 

 two segments of the abdomen black ; wings dark smoky-fuscous. 



Hah. Poona, Bombay. Lenc/th a little over 9 mm. Type in 

 Mr. Wrough ton's collection. 



261. Salius sinensis. 



Poiiipilua sinensis, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 148. 



Salius lyeta, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, p. 444. 



$ . Head, pro- and mesontum, and scutellum pruinose ; median 

 segment coarselv transversely striate ; abdomen sessile or pseudo- 

 sessile, very slightly pruinose, the apical segment with stilf bristly 

 liairs; clypeus transversely oval, its anterior margin widely cmar- 



