SCOLIA TRICINCTA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Black ; collar with two yellow spots ; scutel 

 with one yellow spot; tergum trifasciate with 

 yellow. 



SYNONYM. 



ScoLiA TRICINCTA. NoMs. Westem Quarterly 

 Reporter, vol. ii. p. 74. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black: front with obscure yellowish 

 hair: mandibles rufous at base: collar with a 

 yellow spot on each side, sometimes united: 

 squammula rufous: scutel with a small yellow 

 spot : feet rufous : superior wings dusky on the 

 costal tip, nervures ferruginous : cubital cells two, 

 the second receiving one recurrent nervure: 

 tergum with three yellow bands, of which the 

 first and second are nearly, or, quite interrupted 



PLATE XXIX. 



