142 pomMlid^. 



inesonotum coA'ered with dense golden pile, very brilliant and 

 glittering in certain lights ; median segment more or less fuscons ; 

 abdomen with the extreme base and posterior margins of the basal 

 three segments broadly black, the bands not continued on the 

 underside; M-ings pale oily brown, hyaline, and in certain lights 

 iridescent, a faint fuscous cloud occupies the 2nd and 3rd cubital, 

 and upper part of the 2nd discoidal cell in the fore wing. 



c? similar, but the wings ha\e a large faint fuscous cloud 

 beyond the 2nd cubital cell. 



'Hah. Sikhim ; Burma ; Tenasserim. $ . Length 23 ; exp. 44 mm. 

 S . Length 18; exp. 40 mm, 



281. Salius flavus. 



Sphex flava, Fahr. Ent. Syst. ii, p. 217. 



Pompilus flavus, Fahr. Syst. Piez. p. 197; ? Lepel. Hym. m, 



p. 430. 

 Priocnemis flavus, Dahlh. Hjpn. Eur. i, p. 457. 

 Mypnimia flava, pt., Stnith, Cat. iii, p. 182. 

 Priocnemis hiimbertianus, Sauss. Novara Reise, Hym. p. 63, 



pi. iii, tig. 41. 

 Salius flavus, Cam. Mem. Mnnch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, p. 443 ; 



Bim/h. Jour. Bomh. N. H. Soc. x,J896, p. 214, pi. ii, fig. 1 (var.). 

 Salius humbertianus, Ca7n. t. c. p. 451. 



5 c? • Pruinose ; clypeus transverse, subemarginate anteriorly, 

 slightly porrect ; pronotum very short, the anterior lateral angles a 

 little produced ; median segment transversely striate, sometimes 

 coarsely reticulate, the apex truncate, the base with an obscure, 

 mediab shallow, longitudinal furrow; legs long, the tibiae and 

 tarsi thickly spinose, the posterior tibiae serrate ; abdomen pseudo- 

 sessile, stout, about as long as the thorax. Head, pro- and meso- 

 notum, the apical portion of the femora, the tibiae and basal joints 

 of the tarsi ferruginous or fulvous yellow ; the postscutellum, 

 median segment, head and thorax beneath, coxa?, trochanters, 

 base of the femora, the apical joints of the tarsi, and abdomen 

 black, fuscous black on the tarsi, and with more or less of a purple 

 effulgence in certain lights on the abdomen, which again is variable, 

 having sometimes the apical 4, or 3, or 2 segments, or apex only 

 ferriio-inous, thickly clad with ferruginous hairs ; the pile on the 

 head, pro- and mesonotum is dense and of a golden colour, that 

 on the median segment and abdomen purplish black : wings rich 

 fulvo-ferruginous, the apex of the fore wing beyond the radial cell 

 and of the hind wing narrowly fuscous with a purple effulgence; 

 nervures and tegulie ferruginous. 



Hah. Throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon, extending into 

 the Malay Peninsula. 2 - Length 19-22 ; exp. 38-i6 mm. d • 

 Length 13-16 ; exp. 28-3-5 mm. 



In the Banksian collection, now in the Museum of Natural 

 History at South Kensington, there is a specimen of a Salins 

 labelled "flavm." This, it is probable, was so labelled by 

 Fabricius himself. So far as structure and the sculpturing of the 

 head and thorax go, Salius (Priocnemis) humhertianus of Saussure 



