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SCOLIIDiE. 



187. Scolia venusta, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 90, 5 d ; Sauss. ^- Sich. Cat. 

 6co/. 1). 1:>0, 2 6 • 



$ . Head, and the 2nd and 3rd segments of the abdomen 

 sparsely punctured ; thorax, basal, 4th, and apical segments more 

 closely punctured ; head slightly convex in front, an impressed 

 vertical line from the anterior ocellus down the fi'ont to the base 

 of the antennae ; median segment with a ste^p slope to the apex, 

 which is abruptly truncate ; legs pubescent and thickly spinose ; 

 abdomen pseudosessile, a little longer than the head and thorax 

 together. Black, with rufo-ferruginous pubescence, hairs, and 

 spines ; a broad transverse stripe beneath the vertex not i-eaching 

 the emargiuation of the eyes, a broad band above on the 2nd and 

 the 3rd segment of the abdomen above, yellow, the band on the 

 2nd segment with an elongate lateral spot ; wings brownish 

 hyaline, the costal margin of the fore wing darker with a faint 

 fuscescent cloud at the apex ; nervures and tegulse testaceous 

 brown. 



cJ similar ; the head and thorax closely and rather coarsely 

 punctured, abdomen more densely and finely punctured ; the head 

 and thorax clothed with dense, and the abdomen with a more 

 sparse, short, soft", yellowish pubescence. Black, two lateral spots 

 on the pronotum, the 2nd and 3rd, apical margin of the 4th, and 

 long lateral spots on the 5th segment of the abdomen above, 

 yellow; beneath, ihe abdomen is black with subtriangular lateral 

 yellow spots on segments 2-5, those on the 5th segment being 

 faint and barely indicated; wings somewhat hghter than in the $ . 



Hub. Kumaun ; Biu'ma ; Tenasserim. § . Length 18 ; exp. 

 40 mm. c? . Length 18-20 ; eoc-jj. 42-44 mm. 



188. Scolia kirbyi, Magretti, Ann. Mvs. Civ. Gen. (2") xii, 1892, 



P-244, $d. 

 Scolia floridula, Bingh. Jour. L^nn. Soc, Zool. xxv, 1896, p. 425. 



$ . Head in front smooth, the space below the antennae and 

 around the ocelli coarsely punctured, the disc of the thorax 

 cribrate ; the thorax posteriorly, and the abdomen less densely, 

 but distinctly and somewhat profoundly punctured. Black, 

 shining, abdomen suffused with blue ; the thorax in front fringed 

 with reddish and posteriorly with dense cinereous yellow hairs ; 

 head in front, vertex, sides of the pronotum, scutellum, a small 

 round lateral spot at base of the ] st abdominal segment, a suboval 

 lateral spot at the base of the 2nd, a broad line deeply emargiuate 

 above and below on the 3rd, and the anterior femora and tibiae, 

 citron-yellow ; wings flavo-hyahne, the costal margin of the 

 front wing opaquely fusco-ferruginous, and the apex with a light 

 fusco-violaceous oval spot ; tegulae rufo-ferruginous. 



J similar, but differing in having the vertex of the head black, 

 the postscutellum and the femora and tibije of all the legs yellow. 



Bab. Karen Hills, Burma ; Tenasserim. $ . Length 19 mm. 

 cJ . Length 16 mm. 



