446 [June 



truncate and somewhat concave behind. Wings : the superior pair 

 deep yellowish-hyaline, the apical margin broadly fuligiuous with a 

 beautiful violaceous reflection ; beyond the marginal cell a broad black- 

 ish cloud extending to the tip of the wing ; nervures honey-yellow ; 

 posterior wings fuliginous, with a purplish reflection, the base subhy- 

 aline. Legs ferruginous, with golden-yellow pubescence, the tibia? 

 tuberculate above, the tarsi spinose. Abdomen sparsely punctured, 

 faintly iridescent; on each side of the four basal segments above, a 

 rounded luteous spot, sometimes slightly confluent ; the spots on the 

 first and fourth segments smallest, and when confluent, they form a 

 rather broad transverse band ; those on the second and third segments 

 are large, the former round and the latter rather transverse; all the 

 segments densely fringed with fulvous pubescence ; the apical segment 

 densely clothed with dense, prostrate, fulvous pubescence ; venter paler 

 ferruginous, the second and third segments obsoletely stained with ob- 

 scure luteous. the basal segments deeply contracted. Length 8 lines ; 

 expanse of wings 13J lines. 

 Two specimens. 



2. Scolia inconstans. n. sp. 



Obscure ferruginous; head, antennae and most of thorax blackish; sides of 

 prothorax with a large luteous spot; third segment of abdomen with a yellow 

 spot; wings subhyaline. the costa yellowish, with a dark streak beyond the 

 marginal cell. 



Male. — Head black, with yellowish pubescence ; the orbits, more or 

 less interrupted, yellowish ; anterior margin of the clypeus, and the 

 mandibles, except tips, luteous; antennas nearly as long as the head 

 and thorax, dull black, somewhat brownish beneath. Thorax blackish, 

 with rather dense, prostrate, yellowish pubescence, and close, rather 

 deep punctures ; on each side of the prothorax a large luteous spot ; 

 lateral margins of the mesothorax obscure testaceous ; pleura sometimes 

 with a ferruginous stain ; postscutellum luteous, and sometimes the 

 scutelluui is tinged with the same color; metathorax black, sometimes 

 rufo-piceous, on each side a large rufous or ferruginous spot or stain, 

 the posterior face abruptly truncate and somewhat concave ; tegula) 

 ferruginous. Wings hyaline, slightly dusky on the broad apical mar- 

 gins, and with a slight violaceous reflection ; the costa yellowish espe- 

 cially about the marginal and submarginal cells, and beyond the former 

 a blackish streak extending to the tip of the wing; nervures fuscous. 

 Legs ferruginous, with yellowish pubescence. Abdomen obscure fer- 

 ruginous, punctured, shining, iridescent, clothed with yellowish pu- 

 bescence, more dense on the apical margins of the segments ; basal 



