134 pompilidjE. 



ginate in the middle; median segment rounded posteriori)-, the 

 sides compressed and a little raised. Head, pro- and niesonotum, 

 the scutellum, the legs, and the abdomen, except the basal segment, 

 testaceous red ; the face in front, the pro- and mesouotum, and 

 scutellum with glistening golden pile ; the thorax on the sides and 

 beneath, the postscutellum, median segment, coxae of all the legs, 

 and the basal segment of the abdomen black, the remaining 

 segments of the abdomen shaded with fuscous black above ; wings 

 dark fuscous with a purple effulgence. 



S similar, but the median segment is longer and less markedly 

 striate, and the testaceous red of the head and thorax is more or 

 less shaded with fuscous. Var. Iceta has the abdomen, except the 

 basal segment, pure testaceous red v^ithout any fuscous shading. 



Hob. Burma; Teuasserim ; China. $. Lenyth 16-24; exp. 

 t^O-46 mm. S- Length 14—21; exp. 28-40 mm. 1 have care- 

 fully examined Smith's types and compared them with a long 

 series in my own collection ; the tw o, Fompilus sinensis and 

 Saliiis Icfta, are varieties of one insect. 



262. Salius indicus, Cam. Meyn. Manch. L. Fh. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, pp. 444 



& 448 ; Bi7igh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii, lb93, p. 374, pi. i, 

 tig. 10, 2 ■ 



2 6 ■ ^ery closely allied to S. smithii. Bingh., but larger and 

 more stoutly built ; the pronotum anteriorly transverse, but the 

 anterior lateral angles not produced : the apex of the median 

 segment more vertically truncate, and the transverse striations 

 coarser. In a very large series of specimens in my collection the 

 whole of the 1st segment of the abdomen is black, and in this 

 point differs from Mr. Cameron's description. 



Hob, Sikhim ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 5 • Length 17-25 ; exji. 

 36-40 mm. c? . Length 15-18 ; exp. 30-38 mm. 



263. Salius smithii. 



Mygnimia fervida, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1861, p. 82, 5 6 {nee 

 Piiocnemis fervidus, Sitiith, Jour. Linii. Soc. iii (1859), p. 156). 



5 . Head and thorax in front shining and with very fine acicu- 

 late striae ; median segment ti'ansversely striate ; abdomen smooth 

 and shining ; clypeus transverse, subporrect, its anterior margin 

 with the sides oblique and the middle widely emarginate ; front dat, 

 with a vertical faintly impressed line from the anterior ocellus 

 to between the base of the antennae ; pronotum transverse in front, 

 with the anterior lateral angles prominent, subangularly arched 

 posteriorly ; median segment short, roundly truncate posteriorly ; 

 legs stout, the tibiae and tarsi spiuose, the posterior tibiae slightly 

 serrate : abdomen stout, pseudosessile, about as long as the thorax. 

 Head and thorax, the coxae and trochanters of the legs, and the 

 base of the 1st abdominal segment jet-black ; the mandibles, 

 labrum, palpi, antennae, the femora, tibite, and tarsi of the legs, 

 apex of the 1st and the whole of the remaining segments of the 

 abdomen ferruginous, the apical segment covered with thick ferru- 



