A. TULLGREN, SOMB SPECIES OF THE GENUS SCOLIA. 467 



Length 30 mm. Exp. 57 mm. 

 One single female from Java(?). 



6. Scolia (Discolia) billitonensis Tullgr. n. sp. 



Female. — Brilliant black; the mandibula? red-brown. 

 Head and thorax with scattered long whitish hairs. The ab-' 

 dominal segments ciliated with very long white hairs. The 

 legs with yellowish white hairs and spines. 



The elypeus very broad triangulär with the anterior 

 margin slightly curved. It is pruinose without coarser punc- 

 tures. The face strongly and closely punctured except the 

 frontal part below the ocelli and the vertex which are nearly 

 without punctures. The interval between the posterior ocelli 

 a little shorter than the distance from the eyes. The distance 

 between the antennas at the base very broad. The joints of 

 the flagellum brilliant strongly pruinose. The scapus im- 

 punctate. 



Fig. 2. Forewing of Scolia billitonensis. 



The pronotum coarsely and closely punctured, the meso- 

 notum at the margin with scattered punctures; the disc of 

 mesonotum, the scutellum and the postscutellum smooth. The 

 other parts of the thorax and the median segment closely 

 punctured. 



The abdomen with scattered coarse punctures in the 

 middle-lines, more closely punctured at the sides. 



The wings hyaline, a little subinfuscate with brownish 

 nervures. The radial cell straightly truncated at the end 

 not twice as long as high. The second transverse cubital 

 nervure straight. 



Length 10 mm. Exp. 16 mm. 



Two females from Billiton ( 26 /9 1899). 

 To this species I refer three males from Billiton and 

 one from Langkues (N. W. fr. Billiton 29 /9 1899). 



