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140. SCOLIA ANTHRACINA. B.M. 



Scolia anthracina, jBMrm. Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. 16. 3. 

 Hab. New Holland (King George's Sound). 



141. Scolia Formosa. 



Scolia formosa, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. t. 69. f. 10 ; Voy. Coq. 

 Zool. ii. pt. 2. p. 252. 



Hab. New Holland; New Ireland (Port Praslin). 



142. Scolia fulva. B.M. 

 Scolia fulva, Gray, Cuv. Anim. Kingd. {Griff.) 516. t. 71- f- 1- 

 Hab. New^ Holland. 



143. Scolia bimaculata. B.M. 



Female. Length 10 lines. — Black: a transverse yellow stripe 

 on the vertex ; the wings dark fuscous, and having a bright violet 

 iridescence ; the disk of the thorax smooth, impunctate ; a few 

 scattered punctures at the sides, but the metathorax closely 

 punctured ; in more recent specimens the thorax has probably 

 some pale pubescence on the sides and metathorax. Abdomen 

 smooth and shining, the punctures deep but widely scattered ; 

 the third segment has on each side a large ovate yellow spot. 



Hab. New Holland (Port Stephen). 



144. Scolia flavidula. B.M. 



Female. Length 9 hues. — Black : the head shining, with 

 deep scattered punctures ; two short lines behind the eyes, another 

 in front of the anterior stemma, and a line on each side of the 

 face, entering the emargination of the eyes, yellow ; the mandi- 

 bles and antennae dark rufo-piceous. Thorax thinly clothed 

 above with yellow pubescence ; the scutellum and post-scutellum 

 yellow ; the tegulae yellow ; wings flavo-hyaline^ the anterior 

 margins of the superior wings deep yellow ; the tarsi dark rufo- 

 piceous, ciliated with bright ferruginous hairs, which are also 

 thinly scattered on the tibiae, the spines at the apex of the latter 

 pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen bright yellow ; the extreme 

 base and the apical margins of the second and third segments 

 black, covered with a long thin fulvous pubescence ; beneath 

 black and shining, the apical margins of the segments ciliated 

 with white pubescence, that on the apical segment bright golden- 

 yellow\ 



Hab. Australia. 



