88 MR. smith's catalogue of hymenopterous insects 



we should certainly expect to find the female apterous, and the 

 genus correctly placed in the family Mutillidce. 



1. Myrmosida paradoxa. M. nigra; capite thoraceque rude ru- 

 gosis ; alis subhyalinis ; abdomine basi binodoso. 



Male. Length 4 lines. Black ; head nearly as wide as the thorax, 

 coarsely rugose, across the face between the eyes are some deep 

 transverse grooves ; the face with two longitudinal carinae, outside of 

 which the antennae are inserted ; the scape short and thick, the fla- 

 gellum nearly of equal thickness throughout, pointed at the apex, the 

 extreme tip pale testaceous ; mandibles ferruginous at their apex ; the 

 palpi pale testaceous. Thorax : coarsely rugose ; wings subhy aline, 

 the nervures ferruginous, stigma dark brown ; the anterior tarsi 

 ferruginous, with a dense glittering pale pubescence beneath ; the base 

 of the femora, knees and apex of the tibiae and apical joints of the 

 tarsi, ferruginous ; the calcaria pale rufo-testaceous. The abdominal 

 nodes coarsely longitudinally rugose; the abdomen smooth and 

 shining, the second and following segments punctured, with their 

 apical margins impunctate. 



Hab. Singapore. 



Only one specimen of this very singular insect has been captured, and is 

 in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Tribe FOSSOEES, Latr. 

 Earn. SCOLIAD^. 



Q-en. ScoLiA, Fair. 



Div. 1. The anterior wings with ttco submarginal cells and one 

 recurrent nervure. 



1. Scolia erratica. Smith, Cat. Hym. pt. 3. p. 88. 

 Scolia verticalis, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, p. 37. 

 Hab. Sarawak. 



Div. 2. The anterior wings with two submarginal cells and ttco 

 recurrent nervures. 



2. Scolia aureicollis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 499. 

 Hab. Singapore. 



3. Scolia grossa, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. p. 23. 

 Hab. Sarawak. 



This is Tiphia grossa of the ' Systema Piezatorum ' of Fabricius. 



4. Scolia Iris, St. Farg. Hym. iii. p. 54/. 



Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir). Java. Sumatra. China (Shanghai). 



