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wards convergent darker lines. The eyes very small and the 

 distance from the base of the mandibles about twice their 

 diameter. The thorax with very fine scarcely perspicuous 

 longitudinal strise and with scattered fine punctures. The 

 pronotum longer than broad, rounded in front with an indi- 

 stinct longitudinal middle-furrow. The metanotum much lon- 

 ger than broad, deeply emarginated in front and with a deep 

 depression on each side on the anterior half. The abdomen 

 elongate very tapering towards the apex. 



Length c. 6.5 mm. 



A single female. 



Fam. Scoliidae. 



Scolia Fabr. 



Fabricius, Sy st. entom. 1775, p. 355. — Saussure and 

 Sichel, Catalogus specierum generis Scolia (sensu latiori) etc. 

 Geneve and Paris 1864. — Bingham, C. T. The Fauna of 

 British India, Hymenoptera. Vol. I. London 1897. 



Se. (Elis) albicollis Christ. 



S. thoracica Saussure and Sichel 1. c. p. 188. — Dalla 

 Torre, Catal. Hymenopterorum. Vol. VIII, p. 145. 



Of this species the collection contains a single female 

 ( 9 /a 1901). 



The specimen is characterized by cinereous hairs on the 

 head and on the thorax, especially on the pronotum. In this 

 case it agrees with Indian forms, but from the specimens 

 from this region it differs through the very dense punctua- 

 tion on the mesonotum, there is no impunctated surface in 

 the middle. In the grayish hair-dressing it agrees highly 

 with the description of E. thoracica Fabr. published by Saus- 

 sure and Sichel 1. c. p. 188. But this species is to be regard- 

 ed as a variety of the principal form that is clothed with 

 rufous or golden hairs on the head and thorax (conf. Henri 

 de Saussure, Hymenoptera in Grandidier: Hist. de Madagas- 

 car, fasc. 25. P. 1, pag. 224). 



Length of the body 19 mm. Exp. 35 mm. 



