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Show 436 LT.-COL. C Tk BINGHAM ON THE [Mar. 17, II. PRIOCNEMIS group. 218. SALIUS MADRASPATANUS (Smith). Pompilus madraspatanus, Smith, Cat. H y m . Ins. B. M . iii. 144 130 2 5 Jour. Linn. Soc xi (1867), 352, 6. Salius madraspatanus, Cam. M e m . & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. ser. 4, iv. (1891), 451, 40; Bingh. Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. viii. (1893), 375, 19. Pundaloya (Green coll.). 219. SALIUS PROPERUS, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 7.) 2 • L. 11 millim. Exp. 23 millim. Black, with a thin, silky, slate-coloured pile forming fasci* on the abdomen above ; wings fusco-hyaline. Head broad, broader than the thorax, smooth; clypeus short, transversely oval, convex, an impressed line along and parallel to its anterior margin, the clypeus and front of the face silvery in certain lights and studded sparsely with black hairs; antennae long, convolute at the apex. Thorax long, somewhat laterally compressed; the metathorax as long as the pro- and mesothorax together ; the scutellum large, prominent, flat in the middle above, the metathorax with a rounded slope to the apex and delicately marked with transverse striae. Wings fusco-hyaline, the posterior pair clear hyaline at base ; in the front wing the transverse-medial nervure strikes the externo-medial nervure well before the apex of the 1st submedial cell, in the hind wing the cubital nervure is interstitial with the transverse-anal nervure. Legs black; the intermediate and posterior tibiae strongly spined and serrated, the long tibial calcaria of the posterior legs about half the length of the metatarsus, the tarsi spinose, claws unidentate below, all the coxae on the underside with slate-coloured pile. Abdomen black, smooth and shining, with broad bands of slate-coloured pile at the bases of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th segments, the apical segment black and studded with long black hairs ; below the abdomen is smooth and somewhat shining, with a transverse furrow crossing the 2nd segment. Pundaloya (Green coll.). Besembles S. rothnegi, Cameron, but this is a stouter and more compact insect and has the wings hyaline with two fuscous clouds crossing the fore wing. 220. SALIUS CRINITUS (Bingham). Priocnemis crinitus, Bingh. Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1890), 238, 7 2 • Salius crinitus, Cam. Mem. & Proc Manch. Lit, & Phil Soc. aer. 4, iv. (1891), 451, 35. Pundaloya (Green coll.). The male has not previously been described. It closely resembles the female, but is a slenderer insect and is devoid of the long |
