228 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJAEO-MEEU EXPEDITION. 8: 7. 



Discolia abyssiuica, SATJSS. 



Scolia abyssinica, SAUSSURE, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1858, 203, 9; Discolia abysinnica, 

 SAUSS., Cat. Spec. Gen. Scoli., 87, 66. One example of SAUSSURE'S var. b. from 

 Meru low lands. December. 



Discolia iisaiubaraensis, sp. uov. 



Black, the hair on the apex of the 4th abdominal segment and on the following 

 2 bright red, on the rest of the body and legs black; the wings uniformly dark fuscous 

 violaceous, the nervures black. The puncturation on the head behind the ocelli is very 

 weak and sparse; below them the punctures are more numerous but not much stronger; 

 they become stronger and more numerous nearer the antennae, the part above these 

 being raised into a broad triangle, the narrowed end below; the upper part is bounded 

 by a strongly punctured transverse furrow. The sides and base of the mesonolum, 

 broadly, the apex more narrowly and sparsely punctured, the rest impunctate; the scutel- 

 lums are more closely and strongly punctured, except narrowly at the apex; the meta- 

 notum and basal segment of the abdomen are still more strongly and closely punctured ; 

 on the top of the apical slope of the latter is a smooth, oval, distinct fovea or depression. 

 The apical transverse cubital nervure is obliquely sloped in front and behind, the latter 

 being longer than the former. $. - - 27 mm. 



Is allied to D. erytkropyga, BLIRM. and the Oriental I), analis, F. D. erythropyga 

 is smaller, narrower, and has the head and antennas red. 



Mombo, Uaainbara. June. 



Discolia lueruensis, sp. uov. 



Black, the mandibles piceous red, the spurs and tarsal spines white, the wings 

 hyaline, iridescent, the costa, stigma and basal nervures testaceous, the apical nervures 

 very pale; the hair on the mesonolum rufous, on the rest of the body, head and legs 

 white; the abdominal segments with distinct hair bands; the pygidium with firey red stiff 

 hair; Ihe basal half with long stiff black hair. Radial cellule not much longer than 

 wide, the apical abscissa of the radius long and straight, rounded below. $. - Length 

 10 mm. 



Meru low lands, Ngare na nyuki, January. 



Vertex smooth, the front sparsely punctured below. Scutellum with a row of 

 punclures at the base, and at the apex laterally; the post-scutellum punclured at the base 

 and apex; the base of the melanotum is more finely and much more closely punclured. 

 The apical transverse cubital nervure is slraight, nol oblique and forms a sharp angle 

 with the cubitus below. 



This is the smallest Discolia known. It may be really a Diel'ts with the apical 

 recurrent nervure obliterated, the apical nervures all being, as I have stated, faint. If a 

 Dii'lis it most resembles D. capensis, SAUSS. 



