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in a bamboo, storing them with those soft-bodied spiders that live in the 
rolled up margins of leaves. It is double-brooded ; I have found nests 
in June and again in November. 
21. SALIUS VERTICALIS, Smith, Pl. I, fig. 5. 
PRIOCNEMIS VERTICALIS, Sm., Proce. Linn. Soe., II, 94, 6. 
Hasrrat: Borneo, Malacca (Smith), Tenasserim. 
This well-marked species is rare ; I have only twice met with 
it, In September on a jungle road I found a Q carrying cock- 
roaches to a hole in a tree. Subsequently in May I procured a @ on 
the flowers of Acacia pennata. The ¢ has not previously been 
described. 
Length, @, 15 m.m., expanse 37 m.m. 
Description: @, Head black, mandibles yellow, their tips black 
clypeus and sides of the face as far as the vertex broadly yellow, the 
back of the head, the vertex, and front, as far as the antenne, black, 
with scattered black hairs, and in certain lights a thin golden pubes- 
cence, a streak behind the eyes yellow, the latter arcuate, closer above 
than below ; clypeus convex, transversely oval, its anterior margin 
truncated ; antennz sub-fusiform, black, the scape with a spot of 
yellow below. Thorax and abdomen black, the prothorax with a 
broad band and the mesothorax with a square spot along their posterior 
margins, and the scutellum and the proscutellum with a central spot 
chrome-yellow ; the metathorax convex sloping abruptly towards the 
apex, which latter is almost vertically truncated ; the scutellum and 
post-scutellum gibbous cone-shaped, the dorsal surface of the meta- 
thorax finely rugose, clothed with scanty fuscous pubescence, the false 
stigmata and tubercles on the sides well-marked and prominent ; wings 
golden yellow of a deeper tint than in the 9°, their tips and outer 
margins broadly but lightly infuscated, the tegule and nervures dark 
ferruginous-brown: in the fore wing the transverse medial nervure 
springs well before the apex of the 1st submedial cell, the 1st recurrent 
nervure is received in the 2nd cubital cell close to its apex, the 2nd 
recurrent nervure in the 3rd cubital cell well before its middle: in the 
hind wing the cubital nervure is interstitial, Legs long, slightly 
spinose, the cox trochanters and femora black, the remainder of the 
legs chrome-yellow, the claws black, abdomen somewhat vertically 
compressed, the 2nd segment remarkably long. 
