96 HYMENOPTERA. 



cells, these portions being covered with short ferruginous pubes- 

 cence. Abdomen : the first segment having a minute tubercle 

 in the centre at its base ; the punctures small and scattered on 

 the three basal segments, the basal segment and the basal half 

 of the second covered with pale sericeous pile ; the basal and 

 three apical segments dark rufo-testaceous. 



Male. Length 13 lines. — Head and thorax dark fusco-ferru- 

 ginous, the flagellum fulvous; the wings nearly as in the other 

 sex, but having the anterior margins less bright, but similarly 

 pubescent. Abdomen having a splendid purple and green iri- 

 descence, closely and moderately punctured ; the sides and apex 

 have a fringe of black pubescence. 



Hab. Madagascar. (Coll. F. Smith.) 



50. SCOLIA SOROR. . B.M. 



Scolia cyanipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 524. 7 (nee Fahr.). 

 Hab. Australia. 



51. Scolia verticalis. B.M. 



Scolia verticalis, Fahr. Ent. Syst. ii. 234. 25; Syst. Piez.}). 244. 

 33, and Cab. Miis. Dom. Banks. 



Hab. New Holland. 



52. Scolia viridipennis. B.M. 



Scolia cyanipennis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 524. 7 (nee Fabr.). 

 Hab. New Holland. 



53. Scolia maculata. B.M. 

 Scolia maculata, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 255. 



Hab. Georgia. 



54. Scolia ornata. B.M. 



Scolia maculata, Guer. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 255 (nee 

 Drury). 



Hab. Georgia. 



55. Scolia aulica. 



Scolia aulica, Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 33. 48. 

 Hab. South Carolina. 



