ELIS. 93 



clypeus longitudinally rugose ; pronotum and the back of the head 

 densely pubescent; the mesonotuin, scutellum, postscutellum, and 

 median segment coarsely but not very closely punctured, sparsely 

 pubescent : the median segment concavo-truncate posteriorly, 

 above in the middle subtuberculate ; abdomen broad, segments 

 1-4 smooth, fimbriated posteriorly ; 5th and 6th coarsely punc- 

 tured and set with stiff hairs. Vertex of the head, mesonotum, 

 scutellum, postscutellum, and median segment black ; mandibles, 

 clypeus, antennte, pronotum in front, legs, and abdomen castaneous 

 red : pubescence hoary white, reddish on the median segment, 

 legs, and abdomen : wings hyaline and iridescent, suffused with a 

 brownish tint ; uervures and tegulfc testaceous. 



Var. The whole head, thorax, and abdomen castaneous red. 



Bab. The Deccan. 5 . Length 18-21 ; exj). 30-40 mm. Type 

 in the British Museum. 



195. Ells rubro-maculata. 



Scolia nibro-marulata, Smith, Cat. iii, p. 99, 2 . 

 Ells rubro-maculata, Sanss. ^ Sich. Cat. Scol. p. 196, 5 ; Cam. Mem. 

 Manch. L. Ph. Soc. (4) v, 1892, p. 110. 



2 . Head and thorax coarsely and closely punctured, shining ; 

 abdomen smooth and shining, with a few fine scattered punctures ; 

 the region of the ocelli, the disc of the mesonotum, the scutellum, 

 postscutellum, and median segment smooth and almost impunc- 

 tate ; t-he 2nd to the 5th abdominal segments with one or two sub- 

 marginal rows of punctures ; the apical segment closely and finely 

 punctiu'ed. Black ; the head with mixed black and cinereous 

 pubescence : the legs and basal two abdominal segments fringed 

 with black hairs ; the 2nd segment M'ith a lateral yellow macula. ; 

 the base of the 3rd and the following segments deep fuscous red, 

 with the pubescence more or less ferruginous red. 



Hab, India (Smith) ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Java (Saii-is.). 

 5 . Length 33-40 ; exp. 62 mm. 



196. Elis bella, n. sp. 



5 . Head and thorax pubescent, very closely and coarsely 

 punctured and rugose under the pubescence; front above the 

 antennae remarkably prominent and convex, unlike any species 

 known to me ; clypeus smooth, its apex angular, the sides oblique ; 

 median segment short, concavo-truncate posteriorly, the face of the 

 truncation as closely punctured as the rest of the thorax, and with 

 the punctures running into vertical stria) ; the pleurae impunctat^, 

 pruinose ; abdomen stout, opaque, the posterior margins of the 

 segments fimbriated ; the anal segment studded with short stiff 

 hairs. Black, the posterior margins of abdominal segments 1-3 

 with abbreviated lateral linear yellow marks ; pubescence on the 

 head and thorax ferruginous ; the pleurae covered with silvery 

 pile ; the fimbria on the apical margins of segments 1-3 of 

 the abdomen snow-white, and on the 4th and 5th black; the 



