436 L1.-COL. C. T, BINGHAM ON THE [Mar. 17, 
II. Prrocnmis group. 
218, SALIUS MADRASPATANUS (Smith). 
Pompilus madraspatanus, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. iii. 144, 
130 2; Jour. Linn. Soc. xi (1867), 352, 6. 
_ Salius madraspatanus, Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. 
Soe. ser. 4, iv. (1891), 451, 40; Bingh. Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 
Soe. viii. (1893), 375, 19. ; 
Pundaloya (Gireen coll.). 
219, SALIUS PROPERUS, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 7.) 
@. L.11 millim. Exp. 23 millim. 
Black, with a thin, silky, slate-coloured pile forming fasciz on the 
abdomen above ; wings fusco-hyaline. 
Head broad, broader than the thorax, smooth; clypeus short, 
transversely oval, convex, an impressed line along and parallel to 
its anterior margin, the clypeus and front of the face silvery in 
certain lights and studded sparsely with black hairs; antenne 
long, convolute at the apex. Thorax long, somewhat laterally 
compressed ; the metathorax as long as the pro- and mesothorax 
together ; the scutellum large, prominent, flat in the middle above, 
the metathorax with a rounded slope to the apex and delicately 
marked with transverse strie. Wings fusco-hyaline, the posterior 
pair clear hyaline at base ; in the front wing the transverse-medial 
nervure strikes the externo-medial nervure well before the apex of 
the 1st submedial cell, in the hind wing the cubital nervure is 
interstitial with the transverse-anal nervure. Legs black; the 
intermediate and posterior tibie strongly spined and serrated, the 
long tibial calcaria of the posterior legs about half the length of 
the metatarsus, the tarsi spinose, claws unidentate below, all the 
coxe on the underside with slate-coloured pile. Abdomen black, 
smooth and shining, with broad bands of slate-coloured pile at 
the bases of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th segments, the apical seg- 
ment black and studded with long black hairs; below the abdomen 
is smooth and somewhat shining, with a transverse furrow crossing 
the 2nd segment. 
Pundaloya (G'reen coll.). 
_ ‘Resembles S. rothneyi, Cameron, but this is a stouter and more 
compact insect and has the wings hyaline with two fuscous clouds 
crossing the fore wing. 
220. SALIUS CRINITUS (Bingham). 
~ Priocnemis crinitus, Bingh. Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1890), 
238,72. 
Salius crinitus, Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil Soc. 
ser. 4, iv. (1891), 451, 35. 
Pundaloya (Green coll.). 
The male has not previously been described. It closely resem- 
bles the female, but is a slenderer insect and is devoid of the long 
