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of blue and purple ; abdomen black, the apical three segments 

 with large obscure lateral spots of orange-red above, and similar 

 smaller spots on the ventral side. 



2 . Length 60 millim. ; exp. 106 millim. 



Sab. Kilimanjaro. 



A large handsome species allied to Salius (ITemijyepsis) pro- 

 digiosa, G-erst., but much larger, and differing in the shape and 

 sculpture of the thorax and in the colour of the abdomen. 



Salius satelles, sp. nov. (PI. XIX. fig. 7, c? •) 



S . Pruinose ; the clypeus small, convex, its anterior margin 

 almost transverse in the middle and slightly bent downv^^ards ; 

 the mesonotum broad, subconvex, slightly aciculate; scutellum 

 and postscutellum raised in the middle, very prominent, the latter 

 forming a tubercle ; median segment long, somewhat truncate at 

 apex, transversely striated, raised in the middle, on either side of 

 which it is broadly longitudinally sulcate, the sides again being 

 slightly raised and ending at the apex in well-marked but blunt pro- 

 jections ; legs long and slender, the tibiae and tarsi feebly spinose, 

 claws bidentate; abdomen short, vertically compressed, the ventral 

 furrow on the 2nd segment feebly indicated. Intensely black, 

 the clypeus only being alutaceous, and the underside of the 

 antennae slightly fulvous ; wings fuscous, with a broad hyaline 

 yellow transverse band across the disc extending from the apical 

 half of the basal cell in the fore wing to a little beyond the base 

 of the 2nd^cubital and 2nd discoidal cells ; the nervures fuscous 

 black, yellow on the hyaline portion of the wing; tegulse black. 



S . Length 22 millim. ; exp. 52 millim. 



Hah. Ataran Valley, Tenasserim. 



Allied to Salius belUcosus, Smith, Salius antJiracimis, Smith, 

 and Salius Jiercules, Cameron , compared with the same sex of 

 which it differs in being slighter and smaller, with proportionately 

 larger and broader wings, and in the shape and sculpturing of 

 the median segment. 



Salius aueeoseeiceus. 



Pompilus aureosericeus, Guer. Yoy. Coq., Zool. pt. 2, p. 256. 



? Priocnemis gigas, Taschenb. Zeits. ges. JNaturwiss. xxxiv. 

 (1869) p. 40. 



Salius Elizahethce, Bingh. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. viii, 

 p. 372, pi. 1. f. 9 (1894). 



A very widely distributed and, so far as size and the colour of 



