NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN SPECIES OF 203 



INDO-MALAYAN HYMENOPTERA. 



yellowish-brown, the coxje and trochanters covered with golden pile 

 and some long golden hairs, the intermediate and' posterior tibiae 

 serrated, grooved and thickly spined ; the claws long and slender, 

 bearing one conspicuous tooth on their inferior edges, the tibial 

 calcaria shortj stout, reaching only to about 'one-third the length 

 of the metatarsus. Abdomen subpetioiate, of a light yellow-brown, 

 covered with golden pile, the 1st segment dusky at base, the abdomen 

 below dark brown, the posterior margins of the segments testaceous, 

 the 2nd ventral segment with an impressed line or furrow at its base. 



The type specimen of this was procured at Darjeeling by Mr. T, A. 

 Hauxwell, Deputy Conservator of Forests, who kindly gave it to me. 

 The insect belongs to the Priocnemis section of the Salius group, dis- 

 tinguished by the remarkable length of their legs. It resembles Salius 

 (^Priocnemis) crinitus^ mihi^ from Ceylon.. 



JO.— SALIUS MOMUS, n. sp. " 



Habitat : Tenasserim. 



Female : Length 13 m.m., expanse 20 m.m. 



Male : Unknown. 



Description. — 9 . Black, the abdominal segments with gray pile on 

 their posterior margins. Mandibles black, clypeus very low and broad, 

 anteriorly emarginate, covered with a fine silvery pile which extends 

 on to the front and face and coxse, antennae black convolute, head 

 broad, posteriorly concave. Thorax short and broad, the pronotum 

 gibbous laterally, its posterior margin widely angled, the metanotum 

 convex above, posteriorly declivous and marked with transverse strise ; 

 wings hyaline, the apex of the forewing and an obsolete cloud 

 occupying the 2nd cubital and the upper portion of the 2nd discoidal 

 cells fuscous, the tegulse and nervures black ; in the front wing the 

 transverse-medial nervure rises before the apex of the 1st submedial 

 cell, and in the hindwing the cubital nervure after he apes of the anal 

 cell ; legs black, the intermediate and posterior tibise very strongly 

 spined, grooved and serrated, claw^s with one tooth on their inferior 

 edges. Abdomen black, the bases of the segments above broadly 

 plumbeous-gray, the apical segment with a thick tnft of reddish-brown 

 hairs, and the 2nd segment below with an impressed line or furrow at 

 its base. 



