138 POMPILID.5. 



the head, mesonotnm, and legs have often a considerable admix- 

 ture of fuscous black with the golden y<illo\v. 



Hah. India, Burma, and Tenasserim, extending to Malacca and 

 the Malay islands as far as the Philippines. 5 • Length 14-30 ; 

 exp. 27-56 mm. S • Length 12-20 exj). 26-43 mm. 



271. Salius consanguineus. 



Priocnemis consano;uiiieus, Sauss. Novara Heise, Hym. p. 62, 9 > 



pi. iii, fig. 40, 2 (1867). 

 Mygniiuia siBvissima, Smith, A. M. N. H. (4) xii, 1873, p. 250. 

 Salius ssevissima et consanguineus, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. 



(4) iv, 1801, pp. 445 & 451. 



2 . Head and thorax in front pruinose ; median segment lightly 

 transversely striate, abdomen smooth, slightly shining ; clypeus 

 transverse, its anterior margin arched, narrowly smooth along the 

 edge ; a vertically impressed line on the front below the anterior 

 ocellus, which is large and prominent; median segment short, 

 with a rounded, rather steep slope to its apex ; legs long, the tibi* 

 and tarsi with short stout spines ; abdomen long, pseudosessile, 

 as long as the head and thorax united. Black, the head, 

 pro- and mesonotum, scutellum, postscutellum, the legs below the 

 coxae, the apex of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and the whole of the 5th 

 and apical segments reddish yellow ; the head and thorax covered 

 with golden pile ; the sides and front of the pronotum, the sides 

 of the mesonotum, the anterior coxae behind, and the base of the 

 posterior and intermediate coxse more or less black ; wings 

 brownish fuscous with a slight purple effulgence. 



Hub. Bombay ; Bangalore ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Tenasserim. 

 2 . Length 19 ; exj). 40 mm. 



This spei-ies may be the Pepsis liisca of Fabricius, the habitat 

 of which is given as Tranquebar. It agrees both with his and 

 Dahlbom's description so far as these go, but both descriptions 

 are too brief for certain identification ; I have therefore ignored 

 them altogether. 



272. Salius fulgidipennis. 



Priocnemis f iilgidipennis, Sauss. Xovara Beisc, Hym. p. 61, 5 J . 

 Myguimia vitripennis, Smith, A. M. N. H. (4) xii, 1873, p. 257. 

 Salius tulgidipennis, Cam. Mem. Maitch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 



p. 451. 

 Salius vitripennis, Cam. t. c. p. 446. 



5 . Head and thorax pruinose anteriorly, median segment 

 rugose and covered with long scattered pubescence, abdomen 

 smooth and shining; clypeus convex, its anterior margin deeply 

 emarginate in the middle, the front of the face concave ; the 

 median segment transversely striate and with a rounded steep 

 slope to its apex, at base divided from the postscutellum by a 

 deep transverse furrow ; legs long, tibicB and tarsi densely spinose, 

 the posterior tibiae strongly serrated ; abdomen smooth and 

 shining, but minutely aciculate. Black, the face in front and the 

 antennae beneath alutaceous ; the anterior and posterior tibiae 



