94 HYMENOPTERA. 



39. SCOLIA MAURA. B.M. 



Scolia maura, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 233.20 ^ ; Syst.Piez.ip. 243. 27. 

 Coqueb. Illust. Icon. Ins. dec. ii. 5/. t. 13. f. A, B, C. 

 Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 2/9. 286. 

 Guer. Voy. Abyss. (Lefeb.) vi. 355. 



Hab. Africa; Algeria (Oran) ; Barbary; Abyssinia. 



40. Scolia melanaria. B.M. 

 Scolia melanaria, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 38. 63 J . 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope ; Port Natal. 



41. Scolia senex. 



Male. Length 7 lines. — Black, clothed entirely, but thinly, 

 with cinereous pubescence ; the wings flavo-hyaline, the nervures 

 pale ferruginous ; the superior wings have a dark cloud at their 

 anterior margins beyond the marginal cell ; the apical margins 

 faintly clouded ; the tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; the two apical 

 segments of the abdomen ferruginous, the apex armed with three 

 black spines. 

 Hab. Cape of Good Hope. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.) 



42. Scolia aureipennis. B.M. 

 Scolia aureipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 525. 9 $ . 



Hab. South Africa (Gambia). 



43. Scolia cyanea. B.M. 



Scolia cyanea, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 525. 10 c? . 

 Bunn. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 38. 64. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope ; Port Natal. 



44. Scolia fraterna. B.M. 



Female. Length 1 1 lines. — Black ; the crown of the head very 

 smooth and shining ; the prothorax, the mesothorax and scu- 

 tellum with large deep punctures; the wings nearly black, and 

 having a splendid violet iridescence. Abdomen entirely covered 

 with distinct punctures, most sparing on the second and third 

 segments in the middle. 



The male resembles the female, but is rather smaller. 



This species closely resembles S. cyanipennis of St. Fargeau, 

 but is at once known from that species, v^hich has the disk of 

 the thorax very smooth, with a few widely scattered punctures, 

 by having the disk covered with large deep punctures. 



Hab. Port Natal. 



