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HYMENOPTERA. 



145. SCOLIA ZONATA. B.M. 



Female. Length 13-14 lines. — Black : the antennae, margin 

 of the clypeus and the mandibles ferruginous ; the scape fuscous 

 above ; the face covered with ochraceous pubescence ; the vertex 

 smooth and shining, its posterior margin punctured, and fringed 

 with ochraceous pubescence. Thorax : the hinder margins of 

 the prothorax and of the tegulae, the tibiae and tarsi, ferruginous ; 

 the inner spurs which arm the apex of the posterior tibiae as long 

 as the basal joint of the tarsus, very slender and acute at their 

 apex ; wings flavo-hyaline, slightly clouded at their apex, and of 

 a reddish-yellow at the anterior margins of the superior wings ; 

 the nervures ferruginous ; the prothorax, metathorax and legs 

 are thinly clothed with ochraceous pubescence. Abdomen : the 

 second, third and fourth segments have a broad yellow fascia at 

 their basal margins, the two latter continuous beneath, the three 

 apical segments entirely yellow ; the base has a thin ochraceous 

 pubescence, that on the apical segments ferruginous. 



The male closely resembles the female, the flagellum being 

 ferruginous, the clypeus yellow, and having in the centre an 

 angular black spot : the four apical segments of the abdomen 

 entirely yellow. 



Hub. New Holland. 



Genus 12. POLOCHRUM. 

 Polochrum, Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 20 (1805). 



1. Polochrum repandum. 



Polochrum repandum. Spin. Ins. Lig. i. 20. t. 2. f. 8 a $ , & ^ . 

 Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv. 109. 

 St. Farg. 4- Serv. Ency. Meth. x. 174. 

 Van d. Lind. Obs. Hym. Eur. p. 302. 1. 

 St. Farg. Hym. iii. 566. 1. 



Hab. Geneva; Bologna; Piedmont. 



Genus 13. SAPYGA. 



Apis, pt., Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 953 (1766). 

 Scolia, pt., Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 355 (1775). 

 Sirex, pt., Fabr. Mant. i. 257 (1787). 

 Sapyga, Latr. Precis, p. 134 (1769). 

 Masaris, Panz. Faun. Germ. fasc. 47 (1801). 

 Hellus, pt., Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 246 (1804). 



