SALITJS. 



135 



ginous pubescence ; wings dark fuscous with a purple effulgence, 

 a hyaliue spot at the base of the 1st discoidal cell. 



j similar but smaller, the legs less spinose, the clypeiis and 

 pronotum slightly ferruginous red, the wings of a lighter tint. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Borneo ; Celebes ; Nejv 

 Guinea. $ . Length 17-19 ; exp, 39 mm. 6 - Length 12-15 ; 

 exj). 33-36 mm. 



*264. Salius tuherculatus. 



Cyphouonyx tuherculatus, liadoszkowskt/, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 '1888, p. 470. 



" Deep blue-black, the head beneath bituberculate ; wings black 

 with a violet effulgence. 



''Female. Colour deep blue-black, studded with blackish hairs. 

 Clypeus large, convex, the margin (anterior ?) transverse ; mandibles 

 and antennaj black, the basal joint of the latter very short, the 2nd 

 very long. The head beneath in the middle with two tubercles in 

 the' form of blunt teeth. Thorax opaque, metathorax transversely 

 striate. Abdomen opaque, its apical segment studded with black 

 hairs. Legs black, the coxas bluish. Wings deep violet with a 

 brilliant effulgence passing into greenish. Length i7| mm. 



"■Male. Wimilar, but the clypeus black. Length 18,4 mm." 



Hab. Xepal. 



Unknown to me, but apparently closely resembling^, iridipennis, 

 which, however, in all the examples of a series of fifty or more in 

 my collection, is destitute of the two tubercles beneath the head. 



265. Salius zelotypus, Binffh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, p. 201, 

 pl. i, tig-. 8, d . 

 d . Head, thorax, and abdomen pruinose ; clypeus large, convex, 

 its anterior margin sharply truncate, the face above the antennge 

 with an impressed medial vertical line and a short shallow sulcation 

 on each side of it ; pro- and mesonotum also with an impressed 

 medial longitudinal line; median segment transversely striate, 

 somewhat compressed at the sides, and with a rounded slope to 

 its apex; legs long, spinose, the posterior tibia? serrate; abdomen 

 subpttiolate, smooth. Deep ferruginous red, variegated with fus- 

 cous black ; the vertex, the flagellum of the antenna? above, the 

 mesonotum, the median segment, except a large round macula on 

 each side close to the apex, some irregular marks on the sides of 

 the thorax, and the posterior margins of all the segments of the 

 abdomen, fuscous black : wings dark brown with a purple efful- 

 gence, an irregular hyaline yellow spot (sometimes divided into 

 two or even three spots) occupies part of the 1st and 2nd dis- 

 coidal, the 1st cubital, and the 2nd submedial cells in the fore 

 wing, and extends in some specimens on to the costal margin of 

 the hind wing ; nervures and tegula? dark brown. 



J/ab. Tenasserim. In the British Museum there is one specimen 

 from the Tibet frontier, d . Length 20-24; ea-p. 48-51 mm. 

 2 unknown. 



