On Some of the Scoliidae in the South African Museum. 461 



Subspecies DIAPHEROGAMIA Sauss. 

 Hab. M'fongosi, Zululand. 



6. ELIS (MESA) HETEROGAMIA Sauss. 

 Plesia (Mesa) heterogamia Saussure, G-raudidier : Hist. Madagascar xx, 



p. 244, 1892, . 

 Hab. $ Comoro Island. ? $ Delagoa Bay, Mozambique. 



7. ELIS (MESA) HOTTENTOTA Sauss. 



Plesia (Mesa) hottentota Saussure, Grandidier : Hist. Madagascar xx, 

 p. 245, 1892, 9 . 



Hab. Stellenbosch ; Malmesbury ; Hex River, Cape. 



Specimens which I refer to this species with some doubt, show con- 

 siderable colour variation ; the Hex Eiver specimens having the two 

 apical segments and the apex of the fourth red, of which colour there 

 are only faint traces in other specimens. In one specimen the apical 

 antenual joint is ferruginous, not yellow as in Saussure's description, 

 but in others does not differ from the rest of the flagellum. The wings 

 are not clouded towards the apex. Otherwise the specimens answer 

 well to the description. 



8. ELIS (MESA) LONGIVENTRIS Turn. 

 Elix (Mesa} longiventris Turn., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 712, 



1912, $. 

 Hab. Hex Eiver ; Ceres ; Dunbrody ; Cape. 



9. ELIS (MESA) SPOLIATA Turn. 



Elis (Mesa) spoliata Turn., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 711, 1912, f, . 

 Hab. S.W. District, Cape Colony. 



10. ELIS (MESA) RETICULATA Cam. 



Plesia reticulata Cam., Eec. Albany Mus. i, p. 300, 1905, $ . 

 Hab. Klerlcsdorp, Transvaal ; Estcourt, Natal. 



11. ELIS (MESA) RUFOFEMOEATA Cam. 

 Plesia rufofemorata Cam., Eec. Albany Mus. i, p. 298, 1905, $ . 



Hab. O'okiep, Namaqualaud, Cape. 



This is very near spoliata Turn., but the pubescence is much longer 

 and more dense, the abdomen more closely punctured and the serration 



