200 E. T. CRESSON. 



SCOLIADJE. 



Iffyzine sexcincta. 



Scolia sexcincta, Fabr. Syst. Ent., p. 356. (For synonymy see Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. Phil, iv., p. 442.) 



Twelve % 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll; Heiligbrodt.) 



Myzine costata. 



Meria costata, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 361. 

 Two $ specimens found on Shumach flowers in August. (Belfrage ; 

 Boll.) This is doubtless the 9 of Myzine hamatus, Say. 



Myzine dnbiosa, n. sp. 



5>. — Black, shining, clothed with sparse glittering white hairs, head and 

 thorax with large scattered punctures; a broad band immediately above an- 

 tennae, anterior orbital line, narrow line behind eyes, and a spot on middle of 

 occiput, yellow; clypeus, mandibles except tips, and scape ferruginous, fiagel- 

 lum reddish beneath ; large subtriangular spot on each side of prothorax, a 

 short submarginal line behind, large spot on disc of mesothorax, a spot over 

 tegulee, band on scutellum, postscutellum, a spot, indented anteriorly, on each 

 side of mesothorax, a small spot on basal middle, and two spots on pleura, that 

 beneath tegula; large and subiriangular, all yellow ; the surface around the 

 yellow basal spot of metathorax rugose, the posterior face concave, the sur- 

 rounding surface faintly transversely wrinkled; tegulse dull testaceous, basal 

 margin yellow ; wings pale yellowish hyaline, the costa near apex very faintly 

 dusky; legs black, femora tinged with reddish especially beneath, tibice and 

 tarsi fulvo-ferruginous, anterior tibiae pale in front, posterior coxse with a yel- 

 low spot; abdomen smooth and polished, subiridescent, very sparsely punc- 

 tured; first segment with two, nearly connected, subapical yellow spots ; 

 second segment with a large subbasal yellow spot on each side; three follow- 

 ing segments with a basal yellow band, narrowed medially and subinterrupted ; 

 apical segment flattened, longitudinally striated, tinged with sanguineous; sec- 

 ond and third ventral segments, each with a rounded lateral yellow spot. 

 Length .50 inch. 



One specimen, found on Shumach flowers with the preceding species. 

 (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) Closely allied to sexcincta 9 , but very much 

 smaller, and with clearer wings. 



Myzine texana, n. sp. 



9. — Black, shining, with large scattered punctures, more dense on face 

 and prothorax, clothed with sparse white hairs, especially thick on cheeks and 

 legs; a broad band immediately above antennae, confluent with anterior orbital 

 line which continues narrowly to middle of occiput, and a line behind eyes, 

 also connected to the spot on middle of occiput by an arcuate narrow line, 

 lemon-yellow; mandibles except tips and scape beneath ferruginous; a large 

 spot on each side of prothorax, a large triangular spot on disc of mesothorax, a 

 spot above tegulse, band on scutellum, postscutellum, a large spot acutely in- 

 dented anteriorly on each side of metathorax, and two spots on pleura the 

 posterior one small and rounded, all lemon-yellow; anterior margin of meso- 

 thorax opaque; metathorax behind with a pale sericeous pile, base opaque, the 



