1865.] 44<> 



segments have an apical fringe as above. Length 7 lines ; expanse 

 of wings 11 lines. 

 Two specimens. 



5. Scolia consors, n. sp. 



Black: clypeus, prothorax, scutellums, spot on each side of metathorax, and 

 bands on abdomen, yellow: wings subhyaline, the anterior apical margin 

 blackish, the costa yellowish ; legs ferruginous. 



Male. — Black, sparsely punctured, clothed with yellowish pubes- 

 cence, dense and long about the insertion of the antennae ; eyes very 

 large ; clypeus prominent, yellow, with a blackish spot on the apical 

 middle; mandibles piceous ; antennae as long as the head and thorax, 

 entirely dull black, the scape clothed with yellowish pubescence. Tho- 

 rax : prothorax with a large quadrate yellow mark on each side, con- 

 nected by a narrow yellow line on the posterior margin ; scutellum. 

 postscutcllum and an elongate mark on each side of the metathorax. 

 bright yellow ; tegulae luteous. Wings subhyaline. with a slight metal- 

 lic reflection ; costa yellowish, and beyond the marginal and submar- 

 ginal cells a broad blackish streak, extending to the tip of the. wing ; 

 the nervure dividing the first and second submarginal cells with its 

 lower half obliterated. Legs ferruginous, with pale pubescence ; coxas 

 black or piceous-black ; tips of the four anterior femora above, their 

 tibiae externally, and their tarsi, more or less yellow. Abdomen elon- 

 gate, narrowed towards the base, finely and rather closely punctured, 

 shining, iridescent, sparsely clothed with whitish pubescence, the seg- 

 ments margined at tip with long pale fulvous pubescence ; segments 

 1 — 5 with a broad, subapical, bright yellow band, those on the first 

 three segments deeply indented on the middle anteriorly, the remainder 

 entire ; basal segment narrower than the second, subquadrate, slightly- 

 rounded at base ; apical segment depressed, clothed with black pubes- 

 cence, and armed with three long acute teeth, one on each side, and 

 one in the middle, the latter longest and recurved ; black, the first seg- 

 ment stained with brownish, the second with a small round yellow spot 

 on each side, the three following segments with a broad yellow band, 

 those on the third and fourth segments emarginate in the middle an- 

 teriorly. Length 7 lines; expanse 12 lines 



One specimen. May prove to be the % of S. regina. \t has some 

 resemblance to the % of S. trt/asciata Fabr. 



ft. Scolia flavosignata, n. sp. 



Black, with pale pubescence ; clypeus, except a triangular black spot, pro- 

 thorax, scutellums, and four spots and a band on the abdomen, yellowish; legs 

 mostly ferruginous; wings fusco-hyaline. darker on the costo-apical margin, 

 the costa yellowish. 



