54 p. CAMRKON, ON TIIK ]\[AT,AY FOSSOKIAL 



Diseolia Vollenhorpni Sauss. 



A specimen {^) of what is probably this species is in the 

 collection from Batavia, Java (Van I^ooten). 



It differs from the type, as described by Saussure, (Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 188 and Cat. Spec. Scolia, p. 112) from 

 Sumatra in having only the upper part of the prothorax — 

 not the whole — orange, and the fore legs and breast are 

 covered with black, not with fulvous, hair. It is only 15 mm. 

 in length, while the type is 19 mm. The spines on the fore 

 tarsi are rufous. 



Discolia varifrons sp. nov. 



Black, the thorax, abdomen and legs densely covered all 

 over with stiff, black pubescence ; the flagellum of antenna3 

 dull black ; fore calcarla rufo-testaceous ; abdomen with blue 

 and violaceous tints ; wings fuscous violaceous. Basal segment 

 of abdomen cup-shaped. <?. 



Length 19 mm. 



New Guinea. (R. Semon leg.) 



Upper half of frontal area bluntly, obliquely narrowed, 

 extending shortly behind the front ocellus ; smooth, except 

 for a few punctures round the edges ; the lower half, except 

 on the lower edges, strongly and closely punctured ; the frontal 

 keel broad, 'opaque, sparsely punctured in the middle, which 

 is rounded. The upper part of the clypeus strongly and mode- 

 rately closely punctured, the lower smooth, the smooth part 

 longer in the centre than on the sides. Mandibles obscure red 

 beyond the middle. Pronotum and mesothorax strongly and 

 closely punctured ; the scutellum is less strongly punctured, 

 almost smooth at the apex ; the post-scutellum less strongly 

 punctured, almost smooth in the middle. Metanotum sparsely 

 punctured in the middle, more strongly on the sides ; the 



