460 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 1. 



1892. Elis? erythrogaster Saussure, Grandidier : Hist. 

 Madeg. XX, P I, p. 217. 



1897. Scolia erythrogaster Dalla Torre, Cat. Hymen. 

 8: i, p. 157. 



Female. — Black; the following parts are reddish or 

 chestnut-brown : the lower part of the clypeus, the antennse 

 except the apex, the hind-margin of the pronotum, the te- 

 gulae, the legs and the abdomen except a large blackish spöt 

 on the back of the first abdominal segment. The head and 

 thorax clothed with long whitish and yellowish red hairs. 

 The pronotnm especially the shoulders with long and stiff 

 yellowish red hairs, on other parts of the thorax the hairs 

 are grayish. The three first abdominal segments ciliated with 

 long whitish hairs, the apex with golden reddish pubescence. 

 The legs with grayish and yellowish hairs. 



The clypeus strongly vertical wrinkled with a broad 

 transversally finely striated margin. The front sparsely punc- 

 tured, the vertex and the temples impunctate. only the hind 

 margin of the head densely and finely punctured. Behind 

 the eyes a strong vertical keel that even on tbe vertex is a 

 little sensible. The distance between the posterior ocelli 

 very little shorter than the distance from the eyes. 



The thorax is strongly punctured, only the disc of the 

 mesonotum and the hind-margin of tbe pronotum is nearly 

 impunctate. The front of the pronotum is nearly transver- 

 sally straightly truncated, very little sinuated in the middle. 

 The hind-margin strongly curved with the middle-part nearly 

 straight. The median segment excavated behind with the 

 upper margin in the middle produced backwards. 



The abdomen nearly impunctate brilliant. 



The wings hyaline with the anterior margin yellowish 

 brown and the apex subfuscous w T ith a very dull violet ef- 

 fulgence in certain lights. The radial cell much longer than 

 twice its breadth. The interval between the inserting-points 

 of both recurrent nervures on the cubital nervure nearly 

 thrice as short as the distance from the second one to the 

 posterior inserting-point of the second transverse cubital 

 nervure. 



Length 25,5 mm. Exp. 40,5 mm. 



