228 HTMENOPTEEA. 



the larger. Legs black, the hairs and spines also black. The wings reddish-hyaline, 

 the apex broadly violaceous ; the costa and nervures ferruginous. 



b. Wings fusco-violaceous throughout ; the body black. (Species 3.) 

 3. Elis regina. (Tab. XII. figg. 11, <? ; 12, $ .) 



Elis regina, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1858, p. 237 1 ; Sauss. & Sichel, Cat. Sp. Gen. Scolia, 

 p. 218 2 . 



Hab. Mexico 2 2 ; Honduras, Euatan I. (Gaumer). — South America, Brazil 1 2 . 



This may be only a form of E. peregrina, Lep. de St.-Fargeau (Hist. Nat. Ins. Hymen, 

 iii. p. bH=Scolia atrata, Klug, in Weber & Mohr's Beitr. i. p. 21). The Honduras 

 insect measures, £ 43, & 28 millim. long. The head is shining, rather closely and 

 strongly punctured below the middle, except immediately in front of the ocelli ; behind 

 the ocelli the punctures are smaller and much more widely separated. The meso- 

 notum is shining and impunctate in the centre, the sides bearing large, widely 

 separated punctures ; the scutellum is impunctate at the base and down the middle, 

 the sides bearing scattered punctures; the median segment is closely and strongly 

 punctured. The abdomen has the three basal segments velvety, the three apical 

 segments bare and shining, the apex above thickly covered with stiff, depressed, bristle- 

 like hairs ; the segments are fringed with black hairs ; the ventral segments towards 

 the apex bear hairs which originate from punctures ; the apical ventral segment is 

 punctured at the apex, and laterally projects into two stout teeth. The pleurae 

 (especially the pro pleurae) are covered with long black hair. 



A specimen of what I take to be the male of the same species has the head closely 

 punctured, with a semicircular furrow below the ocelli ; the thorax above closely 

 punctured all over, except that the scutellum is not so thickly punctured as the 

 mesonotum ; the pleurae and breast thickly covered with long black hair ; the abdomen 

 punctured and covered with short black hair, the ventral surface also punctured, but not 

 so densely haired ; the pronotum with two yellow marks in front ; the wings subhyaline, 

 infuscated along the costa, and not deep violaceous as in the female. 



c. Wings hyaline or yellowish-hyaline throughout ; the body black. (Species 4 and 5.) 

 N 4. Elis hyalina. 



Campsomeris hyalina, Lep. de St.-Fargeau, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hymen, iii. p. 497 \ 



Scolia hyalina, Burm. Abh. Nat. ges. Halle, i. 4, p. 23 2 ; Smith, Cat. Hymen. Ins. iii. p. 106 3 . 



Elis hyalina, Sauss. & Sichel, Cat. Sp. Gen. Scolia, p. 219 \ 



Elis fallax, Sauss. Melang. Hymen, p. 62 5 . 



Hab. Mexico 4 , Atoyac in Vera Cruz [Schumann) ; Guatemala, Coban in Vera Paz 

 Cerro Zunil (Champion) ; Costa Rica, Cache ( Van Patten) ; Panama 4 , Volcan de Chiriqui 



