118 ME. smith's descriptions of IIYMENOPTEROUS INSECTS 



Div. III. The anterior wings with three submarginal cells and one recurrent 



nervure. 



8. ScoLiA MOROSA. S. nigra, subnitida; abdomine nitido, alis fuscis 

 viridi et violaceo micantibus. 



Female. Length 15 lines. Black : the head and thorax subojiake, the 

 head impunetate with the cl) pens rugose, its anterior margin nar- 

 rowly and obscurely rufo-piceous. The mesothorax sparingly punc- 

 tured on the disk ; wings very dark, and brilliantly adorned with pris- 

 matic colours ; the legs covered with rigid spines. Abdomen ; shining 

 black, punctured, the middle of the segments very sparingly and finely 

 so ; the apical segment longitudinally strigose, the apical margin pale 

 testaceous. 



Hab. Amboyna. 



9. ScoLiA DUCALis. S. nigra nitida, capite supra basin antennarura 

 flavo ; alis nigris, violaceo micantibus. 



Female. Length 14 lines. Shining, jet-black ; the head, between the 

 emargination of the eyes, and the posterior margin of the vertex, yel- 

 low : from the ocelli a small forked macula is directed forwards ; 

 the emargination of the eyes and the scapes of the antenna; shining and 

 im punctate ; the face and clypeus punctm-ed and rugose ; the scutel- 

 lum and mesothorax not closely or strongly punctured, the latter with 

 two impressed Unes which run forward from the lateral angles of the 

 scutellum, and terminate before reaching the anterior margin ; a cen- 

 tral line passes from the anterior margin and terminates at the middle 

 of the disk, which is shining impunetate ; the metathorax subopake, 

 closely punctured, and fringed laterally with black pubescence ; the 

 wings very dark and splendidly iridescent. Abdomen : the segments 

 sparingly punctured in the middle, the apical margins fringed with 

 black pubescence. 



Hab. Kaisaa. 



This species is closely allied to S. Alecto from Makassar, but is certainly 

 a distinct species. 



Div. IV. The anterior wings with three submarginal cells and two 

 recurrent nervures. 



10. ScoLiA DiMiDiATA, Guer. Voy. Coq, Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 247- $ • 

 Hab. Bachian; Celebes; Amboyna; Isle of Boiuou. 

 In this species the two recurrent nervures unite and pass in a single 

 nervure into the second submarginal cell. 



Gen. TiPHiA, Fahr. 



\. TiPHiA CARBONARiA. T. nitida atra punctata, linea intermedia 

 metathoracis lineam transversam excurrente ; alis subhyalinis, stjg- 

 mate atro. 



