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fuscous cloud in the centre : this cloud is sharply narrowed towards 

 the apex ; the apical abscissa of the radius is curved ; the first 

 cubital cellule is shortly but distinctly shorter than the second ; the 

 third transverse cubital nervure is roundly curved. Abdomen 

 black ; the apical dorsal segment rufous. 



Belongs to Bingham's Section B a (Fauna of India, p. 124).] 



[Salius tapbroba^s'jE, sp. n. 



Niger, antennis, jtedihus, apice pronoti, mesonoto, scutello posl- 

 scutelloque rufis ; coxis troclianterihusque nigris j alls Jtavis, 

 apice famatis. $ . 



Long. 25 mm. 



Hah. Trincomali, Holraputtana, Ceylon (Colonel Yerhury). 



Belongs to the section with one tooth on the claws, and comes 

 near to S.jiavus. 



Antennae stout, bare, ferruginous ; the scape darker. Head 

 ferruginous, sparsely covered with long black hair ; the vertex 

 thickly covered with depressed golden pile. The apex of the 

 clypeus is almost transverse in the middle ; the apex of the labrum 

 is slightly rounded and is densely fringed with reddish hair. Thorax 

 black ; the apical half of the pronotum, the mesonotum, scutellum, 

 and postscutellum densely covered with silky depressed golden 

 pubescence. The depressed belt behind the postscutellum is dark 

 testaceous, is furrowed down the middle, and is transversely but 

 not closely striated. The median segment is coarsely transversely 

 striated, except on the apical third ; the striae have a brownish hue. 

 The upper part of the metapleurse is obliquely striated ; the apex 

 of the propleur^e is brownish above. Legs ferruginous ; the coxae 

 and trochanters are black. Wings yellowish ; the apical margin 

 distinctly smoky all round. Abdomen entirely black, shining ; the 

 pygidium and the epipygium velvety and thickly covered with long 

 black hairs.] 



Salitts sycophant a Grrib. 



An example from Patalung {Evans) is the usual form ; one from 

 Kuala Aring has the wings much darker, the fulvous tinge being 

 much darker at the apex ; the apex itself is not clouded, and the 

 darker colour of the basal region extends nearer to the apex ; the 

 hind wings want the basal tint entirely. 



Salius malayensis, sp. n. 



Long. 16 mm. 



Hah. Kuala Aring. 



This species has the coloration of the body and wiugs of S. perer- 

 grinus Sm., with which it is closely related. S. peregrinus may 

 readily be known from it by the 3rd cubital cellule on the top being, 

 if anything, longer than the 2ud, whereas in the present species it 

 is not much more than one-half its length ; there is also a marked 

 distinction in the shape of the 2nd transverse cubital nervure, 

 which in peregrinus is straight, whereas in malayensis it is, on the 



