104 HYMENOPTERA. 



90. SCOLIA FENESTRATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 9-10 lines. — Black : the head smooth and 

 shining, the face punctured and having a short black pubescence, 

 the clypeus shining, irapunctate. Thorax coarsely punctured, 

 the punctures on the disk elongate ; wings hyaline, with a dark 

 fuscous cloud beyond the enclosed cells, which passes obliquely 

 across the apex of the inferior wings } the spines and pubescence 

 of the legs black. Abdomen having a beautiful sericeous re- 

 flection, with a metallic brilliancy in certain lights ; beneath 

 smooth and shining; the second and two following segments 

 have each a transverse line of punctures. 



Hub. Congo j Gambia. 



91. SCOLIA SENILIS. B.M. 



Ehs senilis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 237. 35 S ; Syst. Piez. p. 249. 3. 

 Scolia senilis, Klug, Weber Sf Mohr, Beitr. i. 29. 17- 



Burm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 24. 24. 

 Colpa senilis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 537. 5. 



Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 282. 292. 

 Tiphia thoracica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 254. 15 $ ; Syst. 



Piez. p. 235. 20. 

 Scoha collaris, Weber Sf Mohr, Beitr. i. 32. 24. 

 Campsomeris collaris, Lucas, Explo. Sc. Alger, iii. 278. 281- 

 Scolia thoracica, Guer. Voy. Coquille, ii. pt. 2. 251. 



Hab. Barbary; Malabar; Sierra Leone; South Africa (Gambia). 



92. Scolia 5-fasciata. B.M. 



Scolia 5-fasciata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 233. 22 <J; Syst. Piez. 

 p. 243. 28, Sf Cab. Mus. Dam. Banks. 



Hab. Africa. 



93. Scolia undulata. 



Female. Length 9 lines. — Black : the antennae, anterior mar- 

 gin of the clypeus and the mandibles ferruginous, the latter fus- 

 cous at their tips; the face has a rich golden pubescence. Thorax 

 clothed anteriorly with bright rufo-fulvous pubescence, that on 

 the sides and on the metathorax is golden ; wings fulvo-hyaline, 

 the anterior margin of the superior wings having a ferruginous 

 stain, the nervures and tegulaj ferruginous ; the anterior margin 

 of the superior wings fuscous towards the apex ; the legs bright 

 ferruginous. Abdomen : the apical margins of the first, second 

 and third segments have a yellow marginal fascia, that on the 

 first emarginate in the middle, the second waved anteriorly, the 



