MR. F. SMITH ON HYMENOPTEROUS INSECTS 
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The sexes here described are distinguished as such by Mr. Wallace, who 
doubtless captured them in coitu. 
Fam. SCOLIADZ, Leach. 
Gen. Trpnta, Fabr. 
1. Tiphia flavipennis, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 91, 3, 
Hab, Gilolo. Sarawak. 
Gen. Scorta, Fadr. 
Div. 1. Two submarginal cells and one recurrent nervure. 
1,Scon1a capriva. S. atra, thorace abdomineque opalino pulcherrime 
lavatis; alis fuscis cupreo indescentibus. 
Male. Length 10 lines. Black, with a beautiful opaline iridescence 
intermixed with shades of blue, purple, and green, thinly covered with 
black pubescence, which is most dense on the sides of the thorax, legs, 
sides and apex of the abdomen; finely and distantly punctured; the 
spines of the apex of the tibiee simple; wings fuscous, not very dark, 
and having a mixture of coppery and greenish iridescence. Abdomen : 
the first segment bell-shaped, much narrower than the following ; the 
punctures on the abdomen fine and not very close, the apex smooth 
and opake. 
Hab. Gilolo. 
2. SconiA AMBIGUA. S. nitida nigra, abdomine opaco, alis fuscis 
cupreo et violaceo splendide micantibus. 
Female. Length 12 lines. The head and thorax shining black; the 
face and vertex thickly set with black pubescence; a patch of silvery 
white pubescence between the base of the scape and the inner margin 
of the eyes; the cheeks have also a little silvery pile; the mandibles 
rufo-piceous on their inner margins. The sides of the thorax, beneath 
as well as the metathorax with a thin cinereous pile; the disk of the 
thorax smooth and shining; the anterior margin of the prothorax 
with deep coarse punctures ; the legs thickly set with rigid black hairs ; 
the posterior femora broad, compressed, and membranaceous beneath ; 
the inner spine at the apex of the tibiz spatulate ; all the calcariz 
rufo-testaceous ; the wings fusco-hyaline, with a splendid violet and 
coppery iridescence. Abdomen opake black with the basal margins 
of the segments slightly shining; the terminal segment longitudinally 
rugose with its apical margin narrowly pale testaceous; the anterior 
wings with a second recurrent nervure incomplete. 
Hab, Gilolo. 
Div. 2. The anterior wings with two submarginal cells and two recurrent 
nervures. 
3. Scolia aurcicollis, St. Farg. Hym. iii. 499.69. 
Hab. Ternati; Bachian; Philippines; Ceylon; Silhet. 
