ELIS. 229 



2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). — South America, Guiana 4 , Surinam 13 , Brazil 234 , 

 Monte Video 4 , Peru 4 , Chili 4 . 



As in most of the allied species the colour of the wings varies. 



A variety of the male has a yellow interrupted line on the second and third abdominal 

 segments. 



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n/ 5. Elis albofimbriata. (Tab. XII. fig. 13.) 



Scolia albofimbriata, Smith, Descr. of New Species of Hymen, p. 189 (1879) \ 



Eab. Costa Rica, Cache l (Bogers) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 

 3000 feet (Champion). 



This species comes near E. hyalina, but is much smaller; the vertex behind the 

 ocelli is smooth and impunctate ; the thorax is strongly punctate, the middle of the 

 mesonotum being impunctate; the apex of the median segment is more sharply 

 oblique ; the abdomen bears long grey hairs, and the segments at the apex are fringed 

 with cinereous hairs (not black hairs as in E. hyalina) ; the radial cellule is longer and 

 more sharply obliquely truncated at the apex ; and the hair on the legs is cinereous, 

 not black. The colour of the wings varies. 



d. Wings hyaline, fuscous, black, or violaceous along the costa; the abdomen black 

 / (Sp. 6), or with yellow markings (Sp. 7). (Species 6 and 7.) 



/ 6. Elis costalis. 



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



Scolia costalis, Smith, Cat. Hymen. Ins. iii. p. 107 2 . 



Elis costalis, Sauss. & Sichel, Cat. Sp. Gen. Scolia, p. 223 3 . 



Hah. Mexico (SalU); Hondueas, Ruatan I. (Gaumer); Guatemala, Panima in Vera 

 Paz (Champion); Costa Rica, Cache (Sogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 

 3000 feet (Champion). — South Ameeica 3 , Cayenne 1 , Brazil 2 . 



v 7. Elis variegata. 



Scolia variegata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 230 * ; Syst. Piez. p. 241 2 ; Klug, in Weber & Mohr's Beitr. 



i. p. 28 3 ; Burm. Abh. Nat. ges. Halle, i. 4, p. 29 4 ; Erichs. in Schomburgk's Eeisen in Brit. 



Guiana, iii. p. 589 5 ; Smith, Cat. Hymen. Ins. iii. p. 108 6 . 

 Colpa variegata, Lep. de St.-Fargeau, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hymen, iii. p. 544 7 . 

 Elis variegata, Sauss. & Sichel, Cat. Sp. Gen. Scolia, pp. 226, 303 8 . 

 Scolia hoffmannseggii, King, in Weber & Mohr's Beitr. i. p. 37 9 ; Burm. Abh. Nat. ges. Halle, i. 4, 



p. 29 10 ; Smith, Cat. Hymen. Ins. iii. p. 106 ". 

 Scolia fuscata, Klug, in Weber & Mohr's Beitr. ii. p. 213 12 . 

 Scolia irregularis, Smith, Cat. Hymen. Ins. iii. p. 107 13 . 

 Elis lativentris, Sauss. Melang. Hymen, p. 59 u . 

 ? Colpa bistrimacula, Lep. de St.-Fargeau, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hymen, iii. p. 546 15 . 



