1901.] HTMENOPTERA FROM NEW BEITAIIir. 237 



The abdomen does not shine much and has hardly a trace of 

 blue or violet tints. 



DiSCOLIA PULCHRIPENNIS, sp. UOV. 



Nigra ; alts violaceis, basi late Jlavo-Jiijalinis. 

 Long. (S 21-22 mm., 5 25 min. 



Antennae black ; the scape covered with very long black hair ; 

 the flagellum opaque, covered with a pale niicroscopic down. Head 

 rather narrow ; except on the front it is thickly covered with long 

 black hair. The vertex is not very shining and is sparsely punc- 

 tured ; the front below the ocelh is smooth and shining ; the lower 

 part obliquely projects, is closely and distinctly punctured and 

 with a furrow down the centre : this oblique lower part is dis- 

 tinctly separated from the upper. Clypeus strongly punctured, 

 except in the centre. Thorax thickly covered with black hair ; 

 it is closely and strongly punctured all over, except on the upper 

 half of the mesopleurae behind. Wings fuscous-violaceous ; the 

 base to shortly beyond the transverse basal nervure and the first 

 radial cellule fulvous-yellowish. Abdomen black, distinctly viola- 

 ceous on the back, closely punctured and thickly covered with black 

 hair. 



The § has the mesonotum in the centre impunctate ; its 

 antennae are fuscous beneath ; the punctuation of the thorax is 

 stronger, closer, and more uniform ; the hypopygium is strongly 

 punctured except at the apex : the wings are of a brighter viola- 

 ceous tinge ; the front is not excavated and there is a broad 

 impunctate band below the ocelli ; its fore spurs are rufous ; the 

 tarsal spines are of a brighter rufous colour. 



POMPILID^. 



Salius insularis, sp. nov. 



Flavus ; abdomine nigro ; metanoto nigro, fulvo bimaculato ; alis 

 fiavis. § . 



Long. 27 mm. 



Antennae reddish yellow, paler beneath and towards the apex. 

 Head rufous, thickly covered with depressed golden pubescence ; 

 the eyes sRghtly converge above and are there separated by a little 

 more than the length of the fourth aatennal joint, which is not 

 much longer than the scape and distinctly shorter than the third. 

 The ocelli are almost in a triangle and are close together ; the 

 hinder are separated from the anterior by nearly the same distance 

 they are from each other ; from the eyes they are separated by a 

 perceptibly greater distance than they are from each other. The 

 apex of the clypeus is bluntly rounded ; the mandibles have the 

 teeth black ; the apical one is bluntly rounded ; the subapical is 

 transverse at the apex, and is not separated behind. Pro- and 

 mesothorax thickly covered with golden depressed pubescence, 

 and more sparsely with fuscous hairs. The scutellum is not much 

 raised above the mesonotum, and is rather flat ; the post-scutellum 



