/ 4 SCOLIID.^. 



b^. Thorax and abdomen variegated 

 with black, yellow, and ferrugi- 

 nous ; 1st abdominal segment not 

 tuberculate ; disc of mesonotura 



closely punctured S. kistnonica, p. 80. 



J^. Vertex and front of head variegated 

 black and yellow. 



a^. Antennae orange-red *8'. elizabethee cf , p. 78. 



b^. Antennpe black. 



a*. Posterior lateral angles of median 



segment yellow S, desidiosa, p. 86. 



b*. Posterior lateral angles of median 



segment deep red S. rivida, p. 87. 



e-*. Posterior lateral angles of median 

 segment black. 

 a\ Abdomen— 1st segment black, 

 2nd broadly yellow in the 

 middle above, 3rd with large 

 yellow lateral maculae, remain- 

 ing segments black *S'. venusta, p. 88. 



¥, Abdomen — 2nd segment with 

 yellow lateral maculae, 3rd 

 segment with a transverse 

 yellow band deeply emarginate 

 above and below, remaining 



segments black S. kirbyi, p. 88. 



c'. Head wholly black S. specijica, p. 89, 



b' . The whole head, thorax, and abdomen 



black 8. eliformis, p. 89. 



A. Fore wing tvith three cubital cells. 



158. Scolia nudata, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 110, 5 ; Satiss. Sj- Sich. Cat. 



&oZ. p. 38, § S- 



5 . Head and abdomen somewhat sparsely but coarsely punc- 

 tured; thorax densely punctured; clypeus slightly convex, smooth 

 and shining in the middle, punctured at the sides, its anterior 

 margin rounded, the space round the ocelli on the vertex and 

 behind the eyes smooth and shining ; the sides of the post- 

 scutellum with oblique divergent striae, the central portion of the 

 median segment almost cribrate ; legs stout, punctured, covered 

 with stiff pubescence and spines ; abdomen as wide as the tliorax, 

 the basal 4 segments with the puncturing widely spaced in the 

 middle above. Black, the abdomen vvith purple and blue iridescent 

 shades in certain lights ; wings very dark fuscous with a deep 

 purple effulgence ; a sparse scattered black pubescence covers the 

 whole insect, and becomes somewhat dense on the apical two 

 segments of the abdomen. 



(5 similar, but smaller and slighter ; clypeus subtriangular, 

 its anterior margin transverse in the middle, oblique at the sides ; 

 the wings hghter fuscous, with hyaline spaces in the 2nd and 3rd 

 cubital, the discoidal, aud submedial cells. 



Hah. Assam ; Burma ; Teuasserim. 5 . Lenyth 15-19 ; eA^i. 

 38 mm. (S . Length 14 ; exp. 29 mm. 



