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with a deep transverse furrow. Dull opaque black, the basal two 

 segments above and below aad basal half of the 3rd segment of the 

 abdomen above red ; there are also indications of the red colour 

 on the apical margins above of tbe 3rd and 4th segments ; the 

 thin scattered pubescence on the head and thorax is black, and on 

 the apical segments of the abdomen ferruginous ; wings hyaline, 

 the apex of the fore wing broadly fuscescent. 



2 . Length 13 millim. ; exp. 22 millim. 



Hab. Mussoorie, N,W. Himalayas. 



Salius venatoeifs, sp. nov. (PI. XIX, fig. 9, $ .) 



S . Head, thorax in front, and abdomen smooth, very slightly 

 pruinose, median segment lightly transversely rugose ; clypeus 

 large, its anterior margin arcuate and slightly reversed, posterior 

 bisinuate ; front of the face slightly concave, an impressed 

 vertical line from the anterior ocellus to between the antennae ; 

 vertex of the head compressed, narrow ; antennae thick, setaceous ; 

 pronotum very short, anteriorly and posteriorly arched ; post- 

 scutellum compressed, tuberculate; median segment long, with a 

 very gradual slope to the apex, a deep short fovea at its base ; 

 legs long, the tibiae and tarsi slightly spinose, claws unidentate ; 

 abdomen vertically compressed, the furrow on the 2nd ventral 

 segment barely indicated. The head, pronotum, apex of the 

 femora, tibiae and tarsi light ferruginous, a dusky stain on the 

 front from the yertex to the base of the antennae, the antennae 

 at apex fuscous ; the thorax except the front of thg prothorax, 

 coxae, trochanters, basal half of the femora, and abdomen aluta- 

 ceous brown, the last witb a rich purple bloom in certain lights ; 

 wings fuscous brown, flavo-liyaline on the disc from the apical 

 half of the 1st cubital and 1st discoidal cells to the 3rd cubital 

 and 3rd discoidal cells; a dark spot with a hyaline border 

 posteriorly at the base of the 1st discoidal cell. 



S . Length 13-18 millim. ; exp. 24-28 millim. 



Hah. Hills of Burma and Tenasserim. 



Eeembles S. satelles, but is structurally and in coloration 

 abundantly difierent. 



Salius placidus, sp. nov. 



S. Head and thorax densely pruinose; abdomen smooth 

 and shining; clypeus short, vertical, nearly flat, its anterior 

 margin transverse in the middle, oblique at the sides ; antennae 



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