To NEW GUINEA IN 1904 anp 1905 Parr 1. AR) 
below are yellowish-testaceous or pale yellow, the middle 
tibie and tarsi rufous. The sides of the basal three abdominal 
segments are pale testaceous to the middle at the apex, the 
lines widest on the outer side; the apices of the others are 
very narrowly lined with white; there is a broad band, pale 
testaceous in colour, on the apex of the 224 ventral segment 
and a similar one on the sides of the 3", The pubescence on 
the head and thorax is dense and pale fulvous to dark fulvous 
on the mesonotum; the pleuræ and apex of metanotum are 
covered with a dense pale golden pile. The abdomen is covered 
densely with black hair; it has distinct violaceous and blue 
tints. Wings light fuscous-violaceous, the posterior paler ; the 
nervures and stigma are black. Length 21 m.m. 
I suspect that the species described above is septemeincta Fab.; 
Saussure (Cat. Gen. Sp. Scol., p. 223) thinks it very probable 
that the latter is the d of formosa. What Saussure, /. c. 
p. 208, has described doubtfully as the d of formosa has the 
wings »sordide ferrugineo-hyalinis, cupreo-micantibus« ; the 
wings in septemcincta d he calls »hyaline«. But see also 
Saussure, l.c. p. 301. It is impossible to decide the matter 
without more information and specimens. I consider, myself, 
that the I have deseribed above may be the veritable d 
of formosa. Both formosa and septemcincta are Australian spe- 
cies; but it may be pointed out that formosa has been recorded 
from New Guinea by Mantero and Albert Schulz. Cf. Berl. 
Ent. Zeits. XLIX, 212 and Ann. del Museo Civico di Storia 
Nat. di Genova, 1900, p. 13. 
Pompilidz. 
Salius ferrugineus Sm. 
Mygnimia ferruginea Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. IV, Supp. 121; 
Salius ferrugineus Cameron, Résul. d. l’Exp. Sc. Neerl. à la 
N. Guinee, p. 54. 
