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raised and projecting over the base of the antennae, its inferior 

 half thickly and tiuely punctured ; median segment broad, concavo- 

 truncate, smooth and shining laterally at the base ; basal segment 

 of abdomen campanulate. Black, with sparse black pubescence on 

 the back of the head, the sides of the thorax, the legs, and abdo- 

 men, the last with a purple iridescent effulgence ; wings dark, 

 fuscous at the base, with a purple and, at apex, with a coppery 

 golden effulgence. 



d similar, but slighter, and with the wings of a lighter colour. 

 Ifab. Ceylon ; Java. $ . Length 18 ; exp. 26 mm. c? slightly 

 smaller. 



*178. Scolia carbonaria, Sauss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1858, p. 210, 2 

 Sauss. 4" Sich. Cat. Scrd. p. 106, § c? ; Cam. Mem. Ma?ich. L. 

 Ph. Soc. (4) V, 1892, p. 103. 



2 . "Of largish size, black and pubescent ; head and thorax 

 lightly punctured all over, shining; abdomen highly polished and 

 suffused with blue and violet tints, the base constricted, not 

 tuberculate, the apex densely punctured ; the flattened calcar of 

 the anterior tibiae testaceous ; wings fuscous black with violet, 

 purple, and blue effulgence, the costal margin obscure. 



S densely punctured. The front between the antenna? and 

 the ocelli with a quadrate depression transversely carinate, obtuse 

 below, above markedly so. Abdomen densely and profoundly 

 punctured, with a bluish tint. Wings fusco-violaceous, with violet, 

 coppery, and deep blue effulgence, the costa black. 



'•'•Hah. India. 5 . Length 28 ; ivivg 22 mm. d" • Length 22 ; 

 wing 17 mm." 



*179. Scolia redtenbacheri, Sauss. Stettin ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 186 ; 

 Sauss. Si- Sick. Cat. Scol. p. 105 ; Catn. Mem. Manch. L. Fh. 

 Soc. (4) V, 1892, p. 103. 



2 . " Of small size, length of S. maura., Fabr. (i. e. 18-25 mm.) ; 

 black, shining, the pubescence entirely black, abdomen and meta- 

 notum suffused with violet tints ; thorax cribrate, but the middle 

 of the mesonotum and the lateral lobes smooth, sparsely punctured, 

 the metanotum deeply emarginate ; the 1st abdominal segment 

 slender, funnel-shaped ; wings of a fuscous purple. S . Moi'e 

 slender, densely punctured all over. Length 24 ; wing 1-1 mm." 



Bah. Barrackpore ; Java. 



180. Scolia caerulans, Lepel. Hym. iii, p. 526; Smith, Cat. ill, p. 87; 



Sauss. Sf Sich. Cat. Seal. p. 104, J. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen closely and somewhat coarsely 

 punctured ; clypeus scutiform, subconvex, its anterior margin rather 

 acute in the middle ; mesonotum with two short, parallel, longi- 

 tudinally impressed lines on the disc above the tegulai ; the 

 scutellum large, prominent ; median segment short, sloped poste- 

 riorly, truncate at apex, the truncation slightly concave; legs 



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