80 Mr. P. Cameron on new 



Abdomen densely golden sericeous above, below not so 

 densely ; the apical segments densely covered with stiff 

 fulvous hairs. The ground-colour of the body is black ; it 

 is the dense pile which gives it the golden appearance. In 

 addition to the hairs the pygidium is thickly covered with 

 bright, stiff, golden pubescence; the second transverse cubital 

 nervure is broadly and rouridly curved outwardly, not straight 

 and oblique as with the allied species. 



Allied to *S'. sericosoma, Sm., from whicli it differs in 

 having the anteniije longer and more slenderly built, in 

 having the apex of the wings distinctly fuscous, in the second 

 transverse cubital nervure roundly curved outwardly, in the 

 second or third apical segment of the abdomen not being 

 ferruginous, and thecoxse and trochanters are black. 



Salius curvinervis, sp. n. 



Ptufo-ferrugineus ; abdoniine nigro lineato; alls brunneo-fumatia, 

 nervo basali cnrvato ; pedibus ferrugineis; coxis subtus nigris. $ . 

 Long. 18-19 mm. 



Antennae short, stout, bare, ferruginous, as is also the 

 head. Eyes parallel, hardly converging above; the ocelli 

 separated from them by the same distance they are from 

 each other ; the front is thickly covered with short reddish- 

 green pubescence and is furrowed down the middle. Apex 

 of clypeus transverse, the sides oblique; mandibles ferru- 

 ginous, black at the apex. Pro- and mesonotum dark 

 ferruginous, thickly covered with golden pile, which shines in 

 certain lights. jNIedian segment irregularly, not very closely, 

 striated, its apex with an oblique slope ; the lower side and 

 apices of the meso- and metapleurte and their bases more 

 broadly black. Legs coloured like the body; their coxae 

 are black behind ; the claws have a large apical and a smaller 

 basal tooth. Wings dark fulvo-hyaline, with a slight vio- 

 laceous tint ; the nervui'cs pale yellowish; the first cubital 

 cellule is shorter than the second at top and bottom ; the 

 first transverse cubital nervure is oblique, the second is 

 straight, the third roundly curved ; the first recurrent 

 nervure is interstitial, the second is received near the apex 

 of the basal third of the cellule ; the accessory nervure in 

 the hind wing is interstitial. Abdomen with the base of 

 the petiole broadly, its apex narrowly, the base and apex of 

 the second and third, and the base of the last distnictly, 

 and the middle segments indistinctly, banded with black ; 

 the pygidium is thickly covered on the middle and apex with 

 hnig bright fulvous hair, the apex is smooth and shining, 



