1901.] HTMENOPTEEA OF THE " SKEAT EXPEDITION' . M 23 



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

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

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

 third transverse cubital uervure is roundly curved. Abdomen 

 black ; the apical dorsal segment rufous. 



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



[S ALIUS TAPBROBAN.E, sp. n. 



Niger, antennis, pedibus, apice pronoti, mesonoto, sculello jiost- 

 scutelloque rufis ; coxls trochanteribusque nic/ris ; alis Jlavis, 

 apice fumatis. £ . 



Long. 25 mm. 



Hub. Trincomali, Holraputtana, Ceylon (Colonel Yerbury), 



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

 near to S.flavus. 



Antennas 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 stria? have a brownish hue. 

 The upper part of the metapleura? is obliquely striated ; the apex 

 of the propleura? is brownish above. Legs ferruginous ; the coxa? 

 and trochanters are black. AVings 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.] 



Salius sycophaxta Grib. 



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 

 hiud wings want the basal tint entirely. 



8ALIU8 m \L\vi;xsrs, sp. n. 



Lmi'l. Hi mm. 



Huh. Kuala Aring. 



This sjx cies baa the coloration of the body and wings of S. pere- 

 grinus Sin., with which it is closely related. 8. peregrimu may 

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

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

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

 distinction in tin' shape "f the 2nd transverse cubital nervure, 

 which in peregrinvu ii straight, whereas in malaymtit it is, on the 



