bb SCOLIIDJE. 



the 4th segment of the abdomen dark red ; wings dark fuscous, the 

 hind wing hyaline at base. 



Hah. Southern India. $ . Length 19 ; exp. 32 mm. Type in 

 the British Museum. 



1 45. Myzine mandalensis. 



Plesia mandalen-ds, Magr. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2'') xii, 189i, 

 p. 2.37,$. 

 2 . Head, scape, and basal joint of theflagellum of the antennae 

 sparsely but somewhat deeply punctured ; a large space on the 

 vertex smooth and shining ; clypeus subopaque, minutely punctate, 

 rugose, with a median longitudinal carina ; prouotum large, wide, 

 elongated into a neck anteriorly, transversely striate, posteriorly 

 somewhat closely punctured, the extreme margin smooth and 

 arched ; propleurae with raised striae ; the disc of the mesonotuin 

 smooth, the median area broad, sparsely punctured and marked off 

 by two oblique iuipressed lines, the lateral portions also smooth 

 and marked off by two other impressed lines ; scutellum trapezi- 

 i'orm, shining and sparsely punctured ; postscutellum narrow, 

 smooth and shining ; mesopleurge lightly punctured ; median 

 segment opaque, minutely or obsoletely rugose and reticulate, a 

 central longitudinal groove from base, with a carina along the 

 middle of the groove, the sides of the segment with dense silky 

 grey pile ; the legs with silvery pile, the intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae having a mixture of short and long spoon-shaped 

 hairs chiefly on the outside ; the calcaria with silvery pubescence ; 

 abdominal segments shining, sparsely punctured. Head, thorax, 

 and legs black ; abdomen obscure rufo-ferruginous, the anal segment 

 fuscous ; anterior wings at base distinctly hyaline with an 

 admixture of smoky fuscous, having four longitudinal hyaline lines ; 

 ])osterior wings hyaline, the extreme apex somewhat fuscescent ; 

 the mandibles and the flagellum of the antennae at apex fuscous ; 

 the palpi and tegulae of the wings flavo-testaceous. 



Hah. Mandalay, Upper Burma. $ . Length 9-10 mm. 



146. Myzine tricolor, Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1858, p. 91, $ ; Cam. 

 Mem. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4j v, 1892, p. 115. 



2 . Head between the base of the antennae and the posterior 

 ocelli, pronotum, mesonotum except a narrow margin anteriorly, 

 Su'utellum, and postscutellum with coarse sliallow punctures ; 

 jiiedian segment convex above, obliquely truncate posteriorly, at 

 bAse finely and distantly and towards the apex more coarsely 

 and densely punctured, the punctures most dense on the face 

 of the truncation ; a central shallow longitudinal groove at 

 base above, cribrate at bottom, narrowing from base to apex, 

 which does not reach the verge of the truncation ; abdomen 

 smooth, with scattered punctures, the basal segment at base 

 vertically truncate, the face of the truncation smooth. Black, 

 the head deep red, the apical 7 or 8 joints of the flagellum of the 



