432 liT.-COL. C. T. BINGHAM ON EXOTIC FOSSOEIAL 



"witli a very steep slope to the apex ; legs stout, the tibiae and tarsi 

 spinose, the spines long and irregular ; abdomen subsessile, as long 

 as the head and thorax together, its apical segment studded with 

 stifFhairs. Black ; the basal two-thirds of the clypeus, the front 

 and vertex, the scape of the antennae, a broad band on the pos- 

 terior margin of the pronotum, a square spot at the apex of the 

 mesonotum, the centre of the scutellum and postscutellum, and 

 the tibise and tarsi of the legs, ferruginous yellow ; wings ferru- 

 ginous, broadly infuscated at apex, the nervures and tegulae 

 ferruginous ; abdomen black, an abbreviated yellow line at the 

 base of the 2nd and 3rd segments above, the apical segment with 

 pale yellow silky pile and long ferruginous hairs. The ferrugi- 

 nous yellow markings on the head, thorax, and legs are sharply 

 defined off from the black. 



2 . Length 20 millim. ; exp. 36 millim. 



Hab. Mergui, South Tenasserim. 



Eesembles the preceding species, but differs in the shape of the 

 clypeus and the median segment and markedly in coloration. 



Genus Salius, Fabr. 



Hemepepsis group. 



Salitjs Aftoltcus, sp. nov. (PL XTX. fig. 6, 5 .) 

 2 . Head and thorax opaque, pruinose ; abdomen smooth and 

 shining ; clypeus transverse, its anterior margin widely emarginate 

 in the middle, the sides oblique ; the front subconcave, an im- 

 pressed line from the anterior ocellus to between the bases of the 

 antennae; the flagellum of the antennae thick, convolute; the vertex 

 strongly arched ; the pronotum short, rounded in front, its posterior 

 margin arched, the mesonotum subconvex; the scutellum and 

 postscutellum raised and laterally compressed ; median segment 

 long, rounded, transversely striated, its apex abruptly truncate, 

 the truncation smooth and shining ; legs long, robust, the tibiae 

 and tarsi strongly spinose ; the intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 flattened and grooved above but not serrated, claws bidentate ; 

 abdomen sessile, the transverse furrow on the 2nd ventral segment 

 shallow. Black ; the mandibles except at the apex, the clypeus 

 and the antennae castaneous brown ; the head, pro - and mesonotum 

 covered with a short thick velvety pile ; the coxae in front, the 

 femora, tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous, shading to fuscous black on 

 the tarsi below ; wings very dark brown, with a superb efiulgence 



