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76. ScoLiA Javana. 



Cami^someris Javana, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 498. 4 $ . 

 Hab. Java; Sumatra. 



77. SCOLIA IGNITA. B.M. 



Female. Length 1 inch 4 lines. — Black : the head smooth and 

 shining, the face punctured below the emargination of the eyes, 

 and covered with short erect black hairs. Thorax thinly clothed in 

 front with short erect pubescence ; the wings brown, with a rich 

 purple iridescence; the legs have a dense rigid black pubes- 

 cence ; the spines which arm the apex of the posterior tibise fer- 

 ruginous at their apex, the inner one dilated. Abdomen smooth, 

 shining and impunctate ; the extreme base and the second and 

 third segments have a few scattered punctures ; a band of red 

 pubescence occupies the apical margin of the second and the 

 basal margin of the third segment ; the third has also a similar 

 broad band on its apical margin; the three apical segments 

 covered with red pubescence, except the third in the middle at 

 its base. 



Hab. Silhet ; North Bengal ; Travan. 



This species was omitted by accident in the First Division, to 

 which it belongs. 



78. SCOLIA LUCTUOSA. B.M. 



Female. Length 1 inch 3 lines. — Black : the sides of the face 

 and the base of the mandibles have a short cinereous pubescence, 

 the face strongly punctured, the vertex having scattered punc- 

 tures. Thorax strongly punctured, the wings dark fuscous, with 

 a purple iridescence. Abdomen : the second and third segments 

 have a small yellow macula at their lateral margins ; the four 

 basal segments have a few scattered punctures at then- base and 

 a transverse row near their apical margins ; the apical margins 

 ciliated with black hairs. 



Hab. Silhet. 



79. SCOLIA AUREICOLLIS. B.M. 



Campsomeris aureicollis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 499. 6 $ . 



After an examination of a number of specimens of this species, 

 which has the margin of the vertex and the prothorax covered 

 with rich fulvous pubescence, which at once distinguishes it 

 from S. collaris, it cannot be considered as a mere variety of the 

 latter species ; S. collaris has the disk of the thorax, scutellum, 



