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CATALOGUE OF THE DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA 

 OF AUSTRALIA. 



Part II. 



By Walter W. Froggatt. 



Family S C LI ID^.' 



This family has representatives in all parts of the world, and 

 such are plentiful in most parts of Australia, many of them 

 frequenting flowers. Several large species banded with yellow 

 and brown are plentiful about Sydney ; another common Sydney 

 species is S. coronata, Smith, a large black wasp marked with 

 reddish-orange colour on the head and on either side of the third 

 segment of the abdomen ; the markings, however, are very 

 variable. Our largest species is aS^. fulva, the thorax and body 

 of which are densely covered with stiff reddish hairs ; its habitat 

 is the Northern parts of Australia. The females form burrows 

 in sand-banks. West wood says that Scolia 2-cincta, Fab., of 

 Europe, burrows to the distance of eighteen inches. 



Smith, in his British Museum Catalogue of Hymenoptera, 

 Part iii. (1855), described a number of new species from this 

 country. In the same year Saussure described several in the 

 " M6moires de la Soci^te de Physique, &c., de Geneve " ; and later 

 on some others in the " Annales de la Soci^te Entomologique de 

 France" (1858). In 1864 Messrs. Sichel and Saussure wrote a 

 Monograph on this group and added another to our list. Smith, 

 in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 



