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depressed at the base and is fringed at the apex with 

 longish hairs. The ventral segments, except at the apex, 

 are, in the middle, yellowish-testaceous ; the last ventral 

 segment projects beyond the apex of the dorsal. 



Allied apparently to B. foveatus Sm. from Singapore; 

 but that, among other differences, has the ovipositor 

 twice the length of the body. 



POMPILIDjE. 



Salius leptocerus, Sp. 110V. 



Niger, abdomine pedibusque rufts; capite, thorace coxisque 

 dense fulvo-hirtis ; alis fusco-violaceis. Long. 17; exp. al. 

 24 mm. 



Hab. Sikim. 



Antennae a little longer than the body, entirely black, 

 except the scape on the under side, which is rufous. Head 

 densely covered all over with a golden fulvous pile and 

 less densely with long fulvous hair. Mandibles densely 

 covered with short depressed fulvous pubescence ; the 

 palpi blackish. Thorax densely covered all over with 

 golden fulvous pubescence and more sparsely with longish 

 pale fulvous hair ; there is a wide, deep furrow down the 

 centre of the post-scutellum, and there is a narrower, 

 less distinct one down the base of the median segment, 

 which is obscurely transversely striated. Wings fuscous- 

 violaceous, shining, the nervures blackish; the first recur- 

 rent nervure is received a short distance in front of the 

 second transverse cubital; the nervures dark fuscous, the 

 stigma darker at the base. Legs red ; the coxae black, 

 densely covered with golden pubescence and, more 

 sparsely, with longish fulvous hair ; the posterior are 

 rufous on the under side ; the trochanters are black at 

 the base. Abdomen dark fulvous ; the second, third, 

 and fourth segments black at the base. 



Comes near to S. zelotypus Bingham from Tenasserim. 



