SALIUS. 



143 



is identical with this. The species I took to be the Sjjhex Jinva of 

 Fabricius {vide Jour. Bomb. N. H. Hoc. 1896, p. 214, pi. ii, fig, 1), 

 I still think is only an extreme variety of that species. 



282. Salius grassator, Bingh. Jour. Linn. Soc. 1896, p. 436. 



S . Head, thorax in front, and abdomen pruinose, median 

 segment finely reticulate ; clypeus broadly convex, its anterior 

 margin straight, truncate ; the front flat, with a verticallv impressed 

 line froui the anterior ocellus to between the base of the antennse; 

 ocelli large, very prominent and close together ; pronotum short, 

 rounded in front, its posterior margin boldly arched ; scutellum 

 and postscutelkim prominent, large, and somewhat laterally 

 compressed in the middle ; median segment rounded posteriorly, 

 with a steep slope to its ai)ex, and bearing a medial longitudinally 

 impressed line; legs long and fairly stout, the tibiae and tarsi 

 spinose, the posterior tibiae grooved but not serrate; abdomen 

 petiolate, short, about the length of the thorax, and slio-htly 

 vertically compressed. Head, pro- and mesonotum, scutellum, 

 ])Ostseutellum, and legs fulvous, covered with a rich golden pile ; 

 median segment and abdomen black, the latter with velvety pile 

 having a golden lustre in certain lights, the basal and apical three 

 segments slightly reddish in the middle ; wings light flavo-hvaline, 

 the apex of the fore wing beyond the 1st cubital cell fuscescent. 



Hah. Sikhim. d" . Length 17; exp. 36 mm. 



283. Salius sericosoma. 



Poinpilus sericosoma, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 146, J. 

 Priocnemis sericosoma, Stnith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1867, p. 3-54. 

 SaHus sericosoma, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, 

 p. 452. 



Head, thorax in front, and abdomen smooth, pruinose; 

 clypeus transversely oval, its anterior margin 

 slightly rounded, somewhat porrect, the 

 thorax conjpressed, the median segment 

 with a rounded slope to its apex, furrowed 

 down the middle and regularly transversely 

 striate ; legs with the tibije and tarsi thickly 

 spinose, the posterior tibiae serrate; abdomen 

 subpetiolate. Head, thorax, legs, and the 

 apical two segments of the abdomen ferru- 

 ginous, the rest of the abdomen black ; the 

 whole insect covered with a thin golden pile, 

 which is very dense on the head and fore 

 part of the thorax ; wings golden yellow, 

 nervures and tegular ferruginous." The 

 golden pile is often much abraded on the 

 sides of the thorax and the abdomen, 

 sometimes completely absent on the latter. 

 Hah. India, and throughout Burma and Tenasserim to Sumatra 



and the Malay Peninsula. $ . Length 16-21 ; exp. 38-41 mm. 



cf very little smaller. 



2 d 



Fig. 32. 

 Salius sericosoma, 5 



