102 HYMENOPTERA. 



post-scutelluni, and metathorax closely and strongly punctured; 

 S. aureicoUis has the metathorax impunctate. 



Hab. Silhet ; Ceylon ; Philippine Islands. 



80. SCOLIA AURULENTA. B.M. 



Female. Length 9 lines. — Black : the head and thorax above 

 clothed with rich fulvous pubescence, the mandibles rufo- 

 piceous, fringed with fulvous hairs ; the wings fulvo-hyaline, the 

 tarsi ferruginous, the pubescence and cilia of the legs of a rich 

 fulvo-ferruginous, the spines which arm the apex of the tibiae 

 rufo-testaceous. Abdomen : the apical margin of the first and 

 three following segments of a reddish-yellow ; the fasciae on the 

 second and third segments slightly emarginate and widest in the 

 middle, all the segments fringed with bright fulvo-ferruginous 

 hairs; beneath smooth and shining, having a few scattered 

 punctures, and the margins fringed with fulvous hairs. 



Hab. Philippine Islands. 



81. SCOLIA PRISMATICA. B.M. 



Female. Length 9 lines. — Black : the head and thorax above 

 anteriorly clothed with pale fulvous pubescence ; the thorax 

 covered with strong punctures, the middle of the disk impunc- 

 tate ; the tegulse pale testaceous, the wings fulvo-hyaline, the 

 nervures ferruginous; the legs have a gUttering fulvo-ferru- 

 ginous pubescence, the calcaria and spines which arm the 

 tibiae and joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous; the apical joints of 

 the tarsi dark rufo-piceous. Abdomen smooth and shining, 

 having a splendid prismatic iridescence, the basal segment and 

 the apical margins of the second and two following segments 

 fringed with glittering pale fulvous hairs ; the margin of the fifth 

 segment and the sixth entu'cly covered with black pubescence. 



Hab. Shanghai. 



82. SCOLIA SUBOBSCURA. 



Colpa infuscata, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 537- 4 ? . 



Scolia infuscata, Burm. Abli. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 23. 23. 



Hab. Surinam. 



83. Scolia fusca. 



Scolia fusca, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 527. 15 $ . 



Hab. Persia. 



