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has a golden lustre ; the posterior margins of the segments of the 

 latter broadly black. Head as broad as the thorax j eyes distinctly 

 converging above, below reaching up to the base of the mandibles, 

 ocelli in an equilateral triangle on the vertex ; forehead slightly 

 concave, bearing a short vertically impressed line above the base of 

 the antennae, these latter rather slender, convolute, destitute of 

 pubescence and of a somewhat lighter colour than the rest of the head, 

 with the tips from the apex of the penultimate joint darkening into 

 dusky black ; clypeus broadly oval, twice as broad as high, convex ; 

 mandibles castaneous, their tips black. Thorax, the pronotum 

 anteriorly almost transverse, its posterior margin obtusely angled, 

 mesonotum slightly convex, scutellum and postscutellum raised and 

 prominent, metanotum gently rounded, posteriorly declivous, trans- 

 versely striated, on either side it bears a broad shallow sulcation 

 which, however, does not reach to its apex, the side tubercles and 

 stigmata well marked and prominent; wings hyaline, of a light 

 ferruoinous- yellow, the lower portion of the hind-and the apical 

 margin of the forewing infuscated, the tegulse and nervares ferruginous- 

 yellow ; in the forewing the transverse cubital nervure rises well 

 before the apex of the submedial cell, and the 1st recurrent nervure 

 is received in the apical 3rd of the 2nd cubital cell, in the hindwing 

 the cubital nervure rises immediately after (almost- at) the apex of the 

 anal cell ; legs long, of a light ferruginous-red, the tibiae of the inter- 

 mediate and posterior legs grooved) serrated and spined, the claws 

 castaneous-brown, one-toothed at their base below. Abdomen sub- 

 petiolate, ferruginous-red, the posterior margins of the first four 

 segments broadly black, of the two apical segm.ents only slightly 

 blackish at the sides ; on the ventral side the 1st segment is wholly 

 black, the 2nd to the 5th red at base with broad black margins, the 

 apical segment ferruginous, studded with a few stiff hairs of the same 

 colour. The 2nd segment ( 9 ) bears a well-marked furrow at its base 



below. 



$. Closely resembles the 9 , but is of a lighter and more testaceous- 

 red, and the wings are darker and more dusky than yellow. It is, 

 of course, considerably smaller in size. 



The nearest ally of this insect is Salius audaxy Smith, which 

 however is structurally different, belonging to the Remipepsis group 



