COLLECTED AT BACHTAN, KAISAA, ETC. 117 



the former punctured on the vertex and impunctate before the ocelU ; 

 the hinder margin of the vertex fringed with a mixture of fuscous and 

 griseous hairs, the cheeics and sides of the face with whitish hair ; 

 the mandibles shghtly rufo-piceous in the middle. The wings fuscous 

 and with a violet iridescence, dai'kest along the anterior margin of the 

 superior pair ; the thorax is smooth above, except at the anterior mar- 

 gin of the mesothorax ; the truncation of the metathorax covered with 

 shining grey pile ; the spine at the apex of the anterior tibia; bent and 

 pale testaceous, those on the posterior pair spatulate and pale at their 

 apex; the legs very spinose. The abdomen very sparinglj' punctured, 

 and with a beautiful blue and violet iridescence. 

 Hab. Dory. 



5. ScoLiA CULTA. S. nigra, ferruginco-hirta ; alis flavo-hyalinis ; tibiis 

 tarsisque ferrugineis ; abdomine fasciis tribus ochraceis. 



Female. Length 13 lines. Black; the head and thorax strongly punc- 

 tured. The scape, anterior margin of the clypeus, and the mandibles 

 ferruginous, the latter with their margins and apex fuscous ; the clypeus 

 with several longitudinal impressions at its anterior margin; the head, 

 thorax, and legs with long ferruginous pubescence. Thorax : the 

 wings flavo-hyaline ; the nervures ferruginous ; the tegulae nifo-testa- 

 ceous ; a slight fulvous cloud beyond the marginal cell ; the tibiae 

 and tarsi ferruginous, strongly spinose ; the inner spine at the apex 

 of the postei'ior tibiae spatulate ; the posterior tibiae black at their 

 base beneath. Abdomen opake : the first, second, and third segments 

 with broad ochraceous fasciae on their apical margins, that on the 

 second widest, slightly emarginate in the middle, and with an indi- 

 stinct fuscous spot on each side ; the fourth segment has a narrow 

 interrupted line on its apical margin, and the apical segment is entirely 

 ochraceous ; all the segments, except the basal one, fringed with rigid 

 ferruginous pubescence ; beneath shining, with a row of strong punc- 

 tures near the apical margin of the segments, which are fringed with 

 pale ferruginous pubescence. 

 Hab. Dory. 



This fine species closely resembles Tiphia radula of Fabricius, with which 

 probably Elis Tasmaniensis is synonymous, but those species belong to 

 another division of the genus Scolia, in which the anterior wings have two 

 recurrent nervures. 



Div. II. The anterior wings with two suhnarginal cells and two recurrent 



nervures. 



6. Scolia aureicolUs, St. Fare/. Hym. iii. 499. $ . 

 Hah. Bachian ; Silhet ; Ceylon ; Philippine Islands. 



1. Scolia aurulenta, Smith, Cat. Hym. Ins. pt. iii, 102. ? . 

 Hab. Bachian ; Philippine Islands ; Celebes. 



