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and slightly grooved, the tibial calcai'ia half the length of the meta- 

 tarsus. Abdomen snbpetiolatej dark ferruginous-brown, thinly covered 

 with scattered and somewhat decumbent black pubescence, the poster- 

 ior margins of the 1st and 2nd segments black, of the 3rd, 4th, and 

 5th dusky brownish, the apical segment ferruginous- red ; the abdomen 

 below has the 1st segment black, the base of the 2ud light ferruginous- 

 brown marked with a conspicuous transverse impressed line, beyond 

 which the rest of the ventral segments are dusky brownish, the upical 

 segment studded with a few still black hairs. 



This species is not uncommon along the foot of the Daunat range 

 in Tenasserim at about 500 ft. elevation. It frequents low herbage 

 and busheSj and I have taken one occasionally sucking up the moisture 

 from the wet sand by the side of hill streams in the Daunat. The 

 female h^s not yet been procured. 



9.— SALIUS EXILIPES, n. sp., PI. I, Fig. 9, 9 . 



Habitat: Sikkim. 



Female r. Length 19 m.m., expanse 36 m.m. 



Male : Unknown. 



Description. — $ . Head, thorax, and abdomen light yellowish- 

 brown with golden pubescence. Mandibles dark brown, almost black 

 at the tips ; clypeus convex, broader than high, covered with thick 

 golden pile ; its anterior margin bare, shining and recurved ; antennse 

 dark brown, the scape and the base of the 1st joint of the flagellum 

 with golden pile, the face, forehead, vertex, back of the head and 

 cheeks covered with golden pubescence ; eyes parallel reaching up 

 to the base of the mandibles, ocelli small^ placed in an equilateral 

 triangle on the vertex. Thorax brown, covered with golden pubes- 

 cence, the metathorax with a longitudinally impressed line or furrow 

 down the centre not reaching its apex ; posteriorly the metanotum is 

 abruptly declivous, its apex funnel-shaped and truncated, with the mar- 

 gin recurved ; wings light brown, hyaline, somewhat iridescentj tegular 

 and nervures testaceous, the former covered with golden pile, a 

 hyaline spot in the internal angle of the 1st discoidal cell of the fore- 

 wing, the transverse medial nervure rises well before the apex of the 

 1st submedial cell, the 1st recurrent nervure is received about the 

 middle of the 2nd cubital cell ; in the hiudwing the cubital nervure 

 is interstitial, rising at the apex of the anal cell ; legs very long, light 



