144 POMPILID^E. 



284. Salius verticalis. 



Priocnemis verticulis, Smith, Jour. Lbin. Soc. 1858, p. 94; idem, 



18U7, p. 354. 

 Salius verticalis, Cam. Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) iv, 1891, p. 452 ; 



Bingh. Jour. Bomh. N. H. Soc. viii, 1893, p. 376, pi. i, fig;. 5, § . 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen smooth and shining; clypeus 

 convex, its anterior margin emarginate in the middle ; median 

 segment short, somewhat compressed at the sides, roundly trun- 

 cate posteriorly, the sides of the postscutellum and the whole ot 

 the median segment transversely striate ; legs with the tibite and 

 tarsi strongly spinose, the tibiae of the posterior legs serrate ; 

 abdomen subsessile, all the segments above sparsely punctur<:'d at 

 base. Black, the face above the antenna; as high as the vertex, 

 the scape and basal two joints of the antennae, a broad line on the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum, a square mark on the meso- 

 notum, the middle portion of the scutellum and postscutellum, the 

 apical half of the femora, the tibiae, and the tarsi of the legs 

 yellow, the apical joint of the last fuscous ; the fore part of the 

 mesonotum in fresh specimens with a fine yellow pile ; the 

 wings hyaline ochraceous yellow, nervures and tegulae brownish 

 yellow. 



cJ . Differs in having the clypeus and sides of the face broadly 

 yellovs', the vertex and the forehead to the base of the antennae, 

 and the whole of the latter except the scape in front black ; the 

 wings are of a paler yellow and slightly fuscous at their apex. 



IJab. Southern India; Tenas;erim ; Malacca, and Bon eo. 

 2 . Length 23-28 ; eccp. 52-58 mm, d . Lemjth 15 ; exp. 42 mm. 



285. Salius momus, Bingh. Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x, 1896, p. 203, $ . 



5 . Pruinose ; head wider than the thorax, convex in front, the 

 occiput emarginate ; clypeus convex, transverse anteriorly, emargi- 

 nate ; pronotum in front transverse, the anterior lateral angles 

 rounded, its posterior margin arched ; median segment short, 

 rounded posteriorly, lightly transversely rugose, the apex steep, 

 with a short broad shallow sulcation on each side of the median 

 line; legs stout, the tibiae and tarsi spinose, the posterior tibiae 

 strongly serrate; abdomen massive, petiolale, as long as the head 

 and thorax united. Black, with a hoary grey pile, dense and silvery 

 in certain lights, especially on the clypeus, sides of the face, and 

 apex of the median segment, and forming bands at the bases of 

 the abdominal segments ; the apical segment with a thick tult of 

 reddish-brown hairs; wings byahne, the apex of the fore wing, 

 and a faint subapical cloud below the radial cell, hghtly fuscous, 

 the tegulao and nervures black. 



Hah. Tenasserim. $ . Length 13-15 ; exj). 20-24 ram. 



286. Salius obsonator, n. sp. 



(S . Head and thorax pruinose, abdomen smooth ; head rather 

 small, narrower than the thorax; clypeus remarkably convex, its 



