90 hymenoptera. 



17. Scotia venusta. 



Female. Length 9 lines. — Black, a transverse yellow spot 

 in front of the vertex, the face having a bright fulvous pubes- 

 cence, the clypeus naked. Thorax clothed with bright rufo- 

 fulvous pubescence ; the wings fulvo -hyaline, the anterior mar- 

 gin of the superior wings bright fulvous, having a dark cloud 

 beyond the submarginal cell, the upper portion of the second 

 submarginal cell also clouded; the nervures ferruginous, the 

 tegulae ferruginous ; the pubescence, spines and setae on the legs 

 fulvo-ferruginous, the tibiae and tarsi rufo-piceous. Abdomen : 

 the second segment having a broad yellow fascia which is 

 shghtly emarginate in the middle of its anterior and posterior 

 margins ; the fascia not extending to the lateral margins, the 

 extremities deeply notched; the third segment has a similar 

 but broader band, interrupted in the middle and rounded at the 

 ends ; the basal segment covered with, and the apical margins 

 of the segments having a long dense fringe of bright fulvo-fer- 

 ruginous pubescence. 



Male. — Closely resembles the female, but differs in having 

 the second and third segments of the abdomen yellow, the 

 fourth has a central interrupted band. 



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



18. SCOLIA APICICORNIS. 



Scolia apicicornis, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 253. 

 Hab. India ? ; Senegal ?. 



19. SCOLIA APICALIS. 



Scolia apicalis, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 254. 

 Hab. India or Senegal. 



20. SCOLIA cephalotes. 



Scolia cephalotes. Burnt. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 37. 60. 

 Hab. Java. 



21. SCOLIA cyanipennis. B.M. 



Scoha cyanipennis, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 244. 35. 

 Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 37. 59. 



Hab. Java. 



