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Head and thorax densely, the abdomen more sparsely covered with white 

 pubescence. Puncturation on head and thorax strong and close, on the abdo- 

 men weaker and less close. Antennae stout, longer than the head and thorax 

 united, not tapering towards the apex. Temples not quite so long as the eyes 

 above, straight, obliquely narrowed, occiput quite transverse. Base of pro- 

 thorax transverse, not much narrowed. Apex of metanotum transverse, the 

 sides broadly rounded. First abdominal segment broad, cupshaped, the 

 narrowed basal part short, the whole segment hardly longer than the 2nd. 



Characteristic of this species is the short, almost sessile 1st abdominal seg- 

 ment ; the base and apex, too, of the thorax are more transverse than usual, 

 than in e. g. P.petiolata which it resembles somewhat in colouration. 



Scolia quettaensis, sp. nov. 



Ferruginous, densely covered with stiff ferruginous pubescence. The 

 front, vertex, inner half of the upper outer orbits, and the 3rd and 4th 

 abdominal segments above pale orange ; wings fulvous tinged with red, the 

 apex fuscous violaceous, the fuscous colour commencing at the apical 

 transverse cubital nervure and:extending backwards to the recurrent nervure ; 

 the $ has the 4th abdominal segment orange, as well as a broad line on the 

 pronotum. The vertex and front are not entirely orange, there being a black 

 line across the ocelli from eye to eye, this line being roundly dilated in the mid- 

 dle in front ; and the lower part of the occiput is rufous ; the reddish colour is 

 largely suffused with black, and the basal abdominal segments have the apical 

 halves black ; the orange fulvous colour in the wings is much less extended, 

 it being only present in the radial and the apical half of the costal cellules^ 

 The antennae are of a brighter red colour than the body. 



Length 9 22 mm. ; $ 15. 



Quetta. May to August ; common. 



Vertex smooth, the front strongly, but not closely punctured. Mandibles 

 black, dark red below. Thorax closely, somewhat closely punctured, the 

 centre of mesonotum and the pro- and mesopleuras, the latter and the 

 metapleurse at their junction below, smooth. Abdomen sparsely, weakly 

 punctured ; the segmental fringes and the pile on pygidum ferruginous. Tibial 

 and tarsal spines and the hairs on the legs ferruginous. 



The $ is darker coloured than the 9 . the red being largely suffused with 

 black, the hair also being darker shading off into fuscous in places; there is an 

 orange mark on the sides of the 3rd and 4th ventral segments. 



Allied to S. erythrocephala, F. and S.flaviceps, Eversm. In these species the 

 hair is black, not red. In colouration it approaches nearer to the latter than 

 the former. 



Scolia maura, F. 



In June Col. Nurse captured at Quetta the 9 and $ of what I can only 

 make out to be this species. The $ is 15, the 9 13 mm. long. It is an 

 entirely black species with uniformly dark fuscous violaceous wings. It is found 

 on both sides of the Mediterranean and southwards extends into Abyssinia. 



