436 IT.-COI,. C. T. BINQUAU ON THE [Mar. 17, 



II. Priocnemis group. 



218. Salius madkaspatanus (Smith). 



Pompilus madrasjKitanus, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. B. M. iii. 144, 

 130 5; Jour. Linn. Soc. xi (1867), 352, 6. 



Salius madraspatanus. Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. 

 Soc. ser. 4, iv. (1891), 451, 40; Biugh. Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. viii. (1893), 375, 19. 



Pundaloya (Green coll.). 



219. Salius peopeeus, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 7.) 

 ? . L. 11 millira. Exp. 23 millim. 



Black, with a thin, silky, slate-coloured pile forming fasciae on the 

 abdomen above ; wings fusco-hyaline. 



Head broad, broader than the thorax, smooth ; clypeus short, 

 transversely oval, convex, an impressed line along aud parallel to 

 its anterior margin, the clypeus and front of the face silvery in 

 certain lights and studded sparsely with black hairs; antennae 

 long, convolute at the apex. Thorax long, somewhat laterally 

 compressed ; the metathorax as long as the pro- and mesolhorax 

 together ; tlie scutellum large, prominent, flat in the middle above, 

 the metathorax with a rounded slope to the apex and delicately 

 marked with transverse strite. Wings fusco-hyaline, the posterior 

 pair clear hyaline at base ; in the front wing the transverse-medial 

 nervure strikes the exteruo-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 tibiae 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 

 coxae 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, aud 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 (Oreen coll.). 



Resembles S. rothnei/i, Cameron, but this is a stouter and more 

 compact insect and has the wings hyaline with two fuscous clouds 

 crossing the fore wing. 



220. Salitjs ORiNiTUS (Bingham). 



Priocnemis crinitits, Bingh. Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1890), 

 238, 7 ? . 



Salius cnnitus, Cam. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil Soc. 

 aer. 4, iv. (1891), 451, 35. 



Pundaloya (Oreen coll.). 



The male has not previously been described. It closely i-esem- 

 bles the female, but is a slenderer insect and is devoid of the long 



