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segmeut short posteriorly, truncate and concave; legs densely 

 pubescent and spinose ; abdomen pseudosessile, longer than the 

 head and thorax together. Black, with black pubescence, that on 

 the legs and apical segment of the abdomen reddish brovAii in 

 certain lights ; colouring of the abdcmen very variable, any or 

 all of segments 2-5 may have red lateral macula?, sometimes 

 coalescing in the middle of the segment above and forming a 

 broad fascia at its base ; wings dark fuscous with a purple 

 effulgence. 



d similar, but smaller and slighter, with thick porrect anteunte, 

 which occasionally have an obscure reddish tint at apex. 



Mab. Throughout India ; Burma ; Tenasserira ; extending to 

 Sumatra and Java, $. Length 15-21; ea^. 27-35 mm. cf . 

 Length 11-16 ; e.vp. 20-29 mm. 



183. Scolia sikMinensis, Bint/h. Jour. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv, 1890, 

 p.423, $c?. 



$ . Closely allied to /S. histrionica, Fabr., but differs as follows : — 

 The clypeus has the middle raised, triangular, flat, and smooth, 

 without punctures, above this a short carina runs up between the 

 bases of the antenniB; the puncturing on the mesonotum and 

 scutellum is much sparser, leaving a central space perfectly bare 

 and smooth ; the median segment is narrower, and less concave 

 posteriorly ; the basal segment of the abdomen is tuberculate 

 above, more contracted, and somewhat more closely punctured. 

 In colour the clypeus, the front to a little above the base of 

 the antennae, the apical nine joints of the flagellum of the antennae, 

 the whole of the thorax except the posterior lateral angles of the 

 median segment, the basal and apical three segments of the 

 abdomen, a narrow fascia above at base of the 2nd, and the apical 

 margins of the 2nd and 3rd segments are black ; the front below 

 the vertex, the occiput, the posterior lateral angles of the median 

 segment, a small spot on each side at base of the 1st abdominal 

 segment, the bases of the 2nd and 3rd and a lengthened lateral 

 subapical spot on ihe 4th, yellow ; the scape and basal two joints of 

 the flagellum of the antennae, and the femora, tibia', and tarsi 

 of the legs red with reddish pubescence, which also covers sparsely 

 the thorax and basal segment of the abdomen : beneath, the 

 pectus, the coxae, and trochanters, and the whole of the abdomen 

 are black : wings brownish hyaline, a long streak beyond the cubital 

 cells and the costal margin of the fore -wing darker brown. 



J. The head and thorax pruinose, closely punctured; the 

 abdomen smooth, shining, with scattered punctures ; the median 

 segmeut not truncate but with a steep slope to the apex ; the 

 abdomen subfusiform, with the basal segment contracted. Black ; 

 the clypeus, the emargination of the eyes, the front below the 

 vertex, a streak behind the eyes, the pronotum, the sides of the pro- 

 thorax, the tegulao, a longitudinal streak above them on the meso- 

 notum, the apex of the scutellum and ])Ostscutellum in the 

 middle, the sides and a triangular spot in the middle at the apex 



