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being produced but slightly posteriorly, only sloping steeply 

 from base to apex. 



Salius grassatoe, sp. nov. 



c? . Pruinose ; tbe elypeus small, convex, its anterior margin 

 sharply transverse, tbe sides oblique, above it is subangular, the 

 base being truncate ; eyes very convergent above, ocelli remark- 

 ably large and prominent; the antennae straight and filiform; 

 prothorax short, rounded in front, the posterior margin sub- 

 arcuate; scutellum and postscutellum prominent; median segment 

 long, with a very gradual slope to its apex, finely transversely 

 striated and bearing a medial longitudinal furrow from base to 

 apex ; legs long, the tibiae and tarsi spinose, the posterior tibiae 

 with the serrations just indicated ; claws strongly unidentate 

 below ; abdomen petiolate, slightly aciculate, the 2nd ventral 

 segment with a well-marked transverse furrow. Head, thorax in 

 front, and the femora, tibiae, and tarsi of the legs ferruginous 

 red; the sides of the thorax, pectus, median segment, coxae and 

 trochanters dull blackish ; the whole thorax covered with a fine 

 sericeous golden pile, dense on the face in front, pro- and meso- 

 notum, and thin and scanty on the sides of the thorax and 

 median segment ; abdomen dark castaneous red, lighter in the 

 middle of the basal segment, and covered with a short fine ferru- 

 ginous pile seen only in certain lights ; wings pale flavo-hyaline, 

 the apex of the fore wing from beyond the middle of the 2nd 

 cubital cell to the apex of the 3rd dark fuscous, beyond that to 

 the apex of the wing lightly fuscescent. 



c? . Length 17 millim. ; exp. 36 millim. 



Hah. Sikkim, at low elevations. A very distinct species. 



Salitjs geminus, sp. nov. 



$ . Closely resembles the European Salius serripes, Dahlbom, 

 and is in fact the Himalayan representative of that species. 

 Head, thorax in front, and abdomen smooth ; median segment 

 lightly transversely striate ; elypeus transversely oval, its anterior 

 margin thickly fringed with long hairs ; front slightly convex, an 

 impressed vertical line from the anterior ocellus to between the 

 base of the antennae ; median segment long, as long as the rest 

 of the thorax, rounded with a gradual slope to its apex ; antennae 

 and legs long, the tibiae and tarsi of the latter strongly spinose, 

 the posterior tibiae markedly serrate; abdomen fusiform, petiolate, 

 as long as the head and thorax together, the 2nd \entral segment 



