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in the niiddle and along the sides, with a wide sulcation on each 

 side of the middle ridge, it is more coafsely transversely striate, 

 and the apex is not rounded but truncate ; abdom'^n not vertically 

 compressed and shorter in proportion. In colour the present 

 species has the head, pronotum, mesonotum, sciitellum, post- 

 scutellum, the anterior legs, and the apex of the femora, the tibiae, 

 and tarsi of the intermediate and posterior legs bright ferruginous; 

 the median segment, the coxae, trochanters, and base of the inter- 

 mediate and posterior legs, and the abdomen black, with a silky 

 golden lustre in certain lights ; wings dull fuscous throughout, 

 with no hyaline patch, and very slightly effulgent. 



Varieties have the wing much lighter in colour, nearly hyaline. 



Hah. Pegu Toma, Burma : Tenasserim. S • Lenyth 15-18 : 

 exp. 28-30 mm. 



269. Salius acer, n. sp. 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth, opaque; clypeus cir- 

 cular, boldly convex, its anterior margin truncate ; front concave 

 above the base of the antennae, with an impressed vertical line 

 from the anterior ocellus ; ocelli very prominent, the anterior 

 ocellus much larger than the posterior two ; pronotum short, 

 somewhat truncate anteriorly ; median segment long, wdth a steep 

 slope, posteriorly almost truncate ; legs long, feebly armed ; 

 abdomen vertically flattened, longer than the head and thorax 

 united. Black ; head, pro- and mesonotum, scutellum, post- 

 scutellum in the middle, the anterior legs entirely, and the femora, 

 tibiae, and tarsi of the two posterior pair reddish yellow ; the 

 flagellum of the antennae at apex and the apical joint of the tarsi 

 fuscous ; wings light fusco-hyaline, nervures brow n, tegulae reddish 

 yellow. 



Hah. Ahmedabad. d" . Lemjth 12; exp. 22 mui. $ unknown. 



270. Salius bipartitus, PI. II, fig. 1. 



• CaHcurgus bipartitus, Lepel. Hym. iii, p. 406, $. 

 I'riocnemis peregrinus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 37. 

 Salius peregiinus, Cam. Mem. Munch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 

 pp. 452 & 455 ; Bijiffh A. M. X. H. (6) xvi, 1895, p. 442. 



S $ . Pruinose ; the clypeus subconvex, its anterior margin 

 rounded, posterior bisinuate ; mesonotum and scutellum boldly 

 convex ; median segment depressed beneath their level, rounded, 

 transversely striated, and somewhat compressed at the sides ; 

 legs long, the tibiae and tarsi thickly spinose, the posterior tibiae 

 serrate , abdomen somewhat fusiform and petiolate. Black ; the 

 head, pro- and mesonotum, and scutellum covered with a dense, 

 short, silky pile, and, together with the apical luilf of the femora, 

 the tibiae, and tarsi of the legs, of a rich golden yellow ; median 

 segment with short black velvety pubescence ; abdomen black, the 

 apical segment studded with stiff ferruginous hairs : wings dark 

 brown with a rich purple effulgence ; nervures dark brown ; tegulae 

 yellow. A variable species in colour and very variable in si/,e; 



