88 HYMENOPTERA. 



9. SCOLIA DECORATA. 



Scolia decorata, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 30. 39. 

 Hab. Sumatra. 



10. Scolia erratica. B.M. 



Scolia verticalis. Burnt,. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 37. 61 (nee 



Fabr.) c? ? . 



Length 6-12 lines. — Black, punctured and pubescent; the head 

 above the antennae, and also the base of the latter red ; the wings 

 dark fuscous, with a purple iridescence ; abdomen black, and 

 having a purple orviolet iridescence; the prothorax sometimes red. 



Hab. India ; Sumatra. 



11. Scolia instabilis. B.M. 



Female. Length 10 lines. — Head and thorax black, the face 

 and thorax in front deeply punctured ; the clypeus, vertex and 

 metathorax smooth, shining and impunctate, the latter covered 

 with hoary pile ; the flagellum bright orange, except the basal 

 segment, which is black ; wings dark fuscous, with a splendid 

 violet iridescence. Abdomen black, with a changeable purple 

 and violet reflection, having a small tubercle at the base. 



Male. — Bears a close resemblance to the female, but has the 

 flagellum entirely orange-red beneath, above fuscous, except 

 three or four of the apical joints, which are orange ; the head 

 and thorax are entirely punctured, the basal segment being cam- 

 panulate. 



Hab. India. 



12. Scolia pulchra. B.M. 



Female. Length 1 1 lines. — Head yellow ; antennae clypeus 

 and mandibles fulvous-red, tips of the latter black, the space 

 between the ocelli black. Thorax rufo-testaceous, the protho- 

 rax above and the tegulae fulvous, the legs ferruginous ; the wings 

 yellow-hyaline, of a deep yellow along their anterior margins, 

 and having a dark pm"])le spot at their apex beyond the marginal 

 cell ; the entire pubescence fulvo-ferruginous. Abdomen fulvo- 

 ferruginous, above black, except at the extreme base; the second 

 segment has a broad yellow band, deeply emarginate in the 

 middle of its posterior margin, and also an emargination on 

 each side ; the two following segments have a broad yellow 

 fascia, interrupted in the middle; the second and third segments 

 fringed with black pubescence on their apical margins; the fourth 

 and tifth fringed with bright fulvous pubescence, entirely covered 



