78 SCOLIID^. 



2 . Head smooth, with only a very few scattered punctures ; 

 thorax and abdomen coarsely punctured, the punctures on sep^- 

 ments 2-5 of the latter rather sparse ; clypeus with a central, 

 subtriangular raised portion, above which there is an abbreviated 

 vertical furrow ; median segment short, posteriorly truncate, the 

 truncation concave ; legs pubescent and spinose ; abdomen pseudo- 

 sessile, about as long as the head and thorax together. Black, the 

 head brick-red, the sides and anterior margin of the clypeus 

 narrowly blackish ; wings dark fuscous, with a rich purple 

 effulgence. 



d" similar, but smaller, with porrect thick antennae, and 

 wanting the raised central subtriangular plane on the clypeus ; 

 wings lighter in colour, with less of the purple effulgence. 



Hnh. Sikhim ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Sumatra ; Java. $ . 

 Length 17-19; exp. 30-32 mm. J. Length 13-15; exp. 31- 

 32 mm. 



166. Scolia elizahethae, n. sp. 



§ . Head smooth -, thorax closely and coarsely punctured, the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum narrowly, the median portion 

 of the mesonotum, scutellum, and postscutellum smooth ; the 

 median segment more closely punctured than the rest, posteriorly 

 concavo-truncate ; the abdomen not so closely punctured, the basal 

 segments shining. Black, the back of the head, the pronotum, 

 sides of the thorax, median segment, legs, and 

 posterior margins of the segments of the 

 abdomen covered with a thin black pubescence ; 

 the mandibles fringed beneath with long red- 

 dish hairs ; the flagellum of the antenna), the 

 head in front and above the base of the scape, 

 and the basal half of the 3rd segment of the 

 abdomen above deep reddish yellow ; wings 

 fuscous, with a brilliant purple effulgence, 

 c? similar, but slighter, covered all over 

 FitT.is Scolia with a thin hoary pubescence mixed with some 

 elizabethcB, S. \. black hairs, and differing in having the flagellum 

 of the antennae of a deeper fulvous-red, and 

 the clypeus, a transverse mark in front above the base of the 

 antennae, but not quite up to the anterior ocellus, a narrow line 

 behind the eyes, the anterior lateral angles of the pronotum, and 

 a large spot laterally at the base of the 3rd segment of the 

 abdomen clear straw-yellow ; the abdomen has iridescent purple 

 gleams in certain lights, and the wings are light fusco-hyaline, with 

 the costal margin and apex of fore wing broadly fuscous, having a 

 purple effulgence. 



Vnr. cT . The lateral yellow spots at the base of the 3rd segment 

 of the abdomen obsolete. 



Bah. Sikhim above 4000 feet ; the higher hill forests in 

 Tenasserim and Karennee. 2 • Length 22-25 ; exp. 48-51 mm. 

 J . Length 19-23 ; exp. 40-45 mm. 



