HYMENOPTERA. 89 



with scattered fulvous hairs; beneath fulvo-ferruginous, the third, 

 fourth and fifth segments broadly dark rufo-piceous at their base. 

 Hab. India. 



13. SCOLIA SPECIFICA. 



Female. Length 9 Hues. — Black ; the mandibles ferruginous 

 at their apex ; a yellow stripe on each side of the prothorax, 

 before the insertion of the wings, the latter fuscous, with a slight 

 purple iridescence towards their apex; the second, third and fourth 

 segments have on each side a large yellow macula, pointed within; 

 the two first sometimes, the third usually united ; the maculae 

 on the second segment have a black dot towards their oute rmar- 

 gins ; the fifth segment having two minute yellow spots in the 

 middle. 

 Hab. India. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



14. SCOLIA VIVIDA. B.M. 



Male. Length 6 lines. — Black ; the clypeus, mandibles and 

 outer orbits of the eyes yellow ; the prothorax above, the collar, 

 a large patch beneath the wings, a narrow stripe on the breast 

 in front, the anterior coxae in front, the tibiae and tips of the 

 femora above, the basal joint of the anterior and intermediate 

 tarsi above, and the scutellum and post-scutellum, yellow ; the 

 wings subhyaline, with some fusco-ferruginous stains towards 

 the anterior margins of the superior pair, and a dark fuscous 

 spot beyond the marginal cell, the nervures ferruginous, tegulse 

 testaceous. Abdomen yellow above ; the apical margins of the 

 four basal segments have a narrow black fascia ; the three apical 

 segments black ; the femora and metathorax ferruginous, the 

 latter more or less stained with black at the base above. 



Hab. Madras. 



15. SCOLIA FERVIDA. 



Scolia fervida. Smith, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 2nd Ser. 1852, 



46?. 

 Hab. E. Indies (Poona). (Mus. India House.) 



This is possibly an extremely highly coloured form of S. 4-pus- 

 tulata, but the red colouring occupies the second and two fol- 

 lowing segments, also the basal margin of the fifth : a series of 

 varieties would probably unite it to 4-pustulata. 



16. SCOLIA OBSCURA. B.M. 



Scoha obscura, St. Farg. Hym. in. 527. 14 $ . 

 Hab. India. 



