84 SCOLIID^. 



short, pubescent and spinose ; abdomen long, much longer than 

 the head and thorax together, the basal segment narrow and 

 contracted. Black, with black pubescence on the head, the apex 

 of the median segment, and on the apical two segments of the 

 abdomen above ; the abdomen in certain lights with blue and purple 

 reflections ; wings fuscous, with a golden and coppery effulgence ; 

 nervures and tegulje brownish black. 



Hab. India ; Burma ; Tenasserim, 6 • Length 27-30 ; exp. 

 49-54 mm. 



181. Scolia indica, Smiss. Mel. Hym. p. 46, pi. — , fi?. 10; Sansx. S,- 



Sick. Cat. Scol. p. 119, $; Cam. Metn. Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 

 1892, p. 106. 

 Scolia ignita, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 101, $ . 



5 . The head flat above and smooth, the front of the face and 

 between the antennae thickly punctured and pubescent ; the 

 clypeus with its anterior margin subtriangular and narrowly 

 smooth ; thorax with coarse deep punctures ; the posterior margin 

 of the pronotum, the middle of the mesonotum, of the post- 

 scutelhim, and of the median segment smooth and impunctate ; the 

 abdomen also smooth and impunctate, or with a very few scattered 

 punctures above and below. Black, with black pubescence on the 

 front of the face and legs ; the sides of the clypeus with a little 

 silvery pile on each side, and the 2nd to the 5th segments of the 

 abdomen with broad bands of stiff ferruginous-red hairs con- 

 tinued below, the apical segment entirely covered with ferruginous 

 pubescence ; wings fuscous brown, with purple reflections. 



cf similar, more slightly made, much more finely and closely 

 punctured on the abdomen as well as on the head and thorax ; the 

 clypeus convex, almost round ; wings of a lighter fuscous brown ; 

 the pubescence on the apical segments of the abdomen of a much 

 lighter ferruginous colour. 



Hab. Sylhet ; North Bengal ; Kumaun ; Travancore ; Burma ; 

 Tenasserim. 5 . Length 30-40 ; e.^y. 48-56 mm. J • Length 20 ; 

 exp. 42 mm. 



182. Scolia quadripustulata, Fahr. Spec. Ins. i, p. 453 ; id. Ent. Syst. 



ii, p. 234 ; id. Syst. Piez. p. 244 ; Lepel. Hym. iii, p. 628; Smith, 



Cat. iii, p. 87. 

 Larra quadripustulata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii, ].. 222. 

 Scolia biuotata, Fah?-. Syst. Piez. p. 244. 

 Scolia bipunctata(?) et sex-pustulata, A7"y, Weh. ^ Mohr, Beitr. 



Naturk. i, pp. 35 & 36. 

 Scolia fasciato-punctata, Guer. Voy. Coq. ii, pt. 2, p. 254. 

 ScoUa fervida, Smith, A. M. N. H. (2) ix, 1852, p. 46, 5 . 

 Scolia stizus, Sauss. ^ Sich. Cat. Scol. p. 118, 5 • 



2 . Head and segments 2-5 of the abdomen sparsely and rather 

 coarsely, and the thorax and basal and apical abdominal segments 

 more densely punctured; the clypeus in the middle, the vertex of the 

 head, and the disc ot the mesonotum smooth and shining ; median 



